ABL 0663 (P334462)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0663 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334462 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | Letter |
| Find spot | Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) |
| Coordinates | 36.3582, 43.1621 |
English translation
By ORACC project saao/saa10 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:4] o 1o 1–o 44 | To the king, my lord: your servant Marduk-šakin-šumi. Good health to the king, my lord! May Nabû and Marduk bless the king, my lord! |
| Obverse [4:21] o 55– | Concerning the chills about which the king, my lord, wrote to me, there is nothing to be worried about. The gods of the k[ing] will quickly cure it, and we shall do whatever is relevant to the matter. [It is] a seasonal illness; the king, my lord, should not [wor]ry (about it). |
Transliteration (ATF)
From Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC default); per-file JSON license fields say: This data is released under the CC0 license (133618)
| Line | ATF | Machine English (draft) |
|---|---|---|
| o | ||
| 1 | a-na LUGAL be-li₂-ia | |
| 2 | ARAD-ka {1}{d}AMAR.UTU—GAR—MU | |
| 3 | lu-u DI-mu a-na LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 4 | {d}PA u {d}AMAR.UTU a-na LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 5 | lik-ru-bu ina UGU ku-uṣ-ṣi | |
| 6 | ša LUGAL be-li₂ iš-pur-an-ni | |
| 7 | la-aš₂-šu₂ hi-ṭu DINGIR-MEŠ-ni ša ⸢LUGAL⸣ | |
| 8 | ar₂-hiš i-pa-aṭ-ṭu-ru | |
| 9 | ⸢u₃⸣ a-ni-nu mi₃-i-nu | |
| 10 | [ša ina] UGU-hi qur-bu-ni | |
| 11 | [ne₂-ep]-⸢pa⸣-aš₂ mur-ṣi šat-ti | |
| 12 | [šu-u₂] ⸢LUGAL⸣ be-li₂ | |
| 13 | [ina UGU ŠA₃]-⸢šu₂ la⸣ i-šak-kan | |
| 14 | [x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ | |
| 15 | [x x x x x x x]-šu₂-nu | |
| r | ||
| 1 | [x x x ina ši]-a-ri | |
| 2 | [x x x x]+⸢x⸣-ri | |
| 3 | [x x x x]+⸢x⸣ a 5/6 KASKAL.GID₂ | |
| 4 | [UD-mu it-ta]-lak | |
| 5 | [x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ | |
Sources & licences
- Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative · CDLI: reuse of catalogue/transliteration data with citation of CDLI; images restricted (not fetched) · Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI), https://cdli.earth/ ; cite CDLI and the P-number
- Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC default); per-file JSON license fields say: This data is released under the CC0 license (133618) · ORACC project editions, https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ ; cite the individual project (see texts.extra_json.project)
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