ABL 0667 (P334465)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0667 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334465 |
| 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 [0:8] o 1o 1–o 88 | To the king, my lord: your servant Urad-Ea. Good health to the king, my lord! May Nabû, Marduk, Sin and Nikkal bless the king, my lord! |
| Obverse [8:22] o 99– | On the 17th day Sin sets off and takes up residence in the akītu-temple. Let the king, my lord, order that they give the garments; I should b[ring them] with me. The penitential psalm will be [per]formed ov[er them], he will bless the king, [my lord], and give a life of dis[tant d]ays to the king, [my] lord. |
| Reverse [2:6] r 33–r 66 | A bodyguard [should be] sent with me because of [the tr]aitors. |
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-ia₂ | |
| 2 | ARAD-ka {1}ARAD—{d}E₂.A | |
| 3 | lu-u DI-mu | |
| 4 | a-na LUGAL be-li₂-ia₂ | |
| 5 | {d}AG u {d}AMAR.UTU | |
| 6 | {d}30 u {d}NIN.GAL | |
| 7 | a-na LUGAL be-li₂-ia₂ | |
| 8 | lik-ru-bu | |
| 9 | UD 17-KAM₂ {d}30 i-ta-bi | |
| 10 | ina a-ki-it u₂-šab | |
| 11 | LUGAL be-li₂ | |
| 12 | ṭe₃-e-mu liš-kun | |
| 13 | {⸢tug₂⸣}gu-zip-pi lid-⸢di-nu⸣ | |
| 14 | [is]-si-ia lu-[bi-la] | |
| 15 | ⸢ER₂⸣.ŠA₃.HUN.GA₂ ina [UGU-hi] | |
| 16 | [in-ne₂]-pa-aš₂ a-na LUGAL [EN-ia₂] | |
| 17 | ⸢i⸣-kar-[rab] | |
| 18 | ba-laṭ na-⸢piš⸣-[ti] | |
| 19 | [ša₂] ⸢UD⸣-me ru-⸢qu⸣-[u₂-ti] | |
| r | ||
| 1 | a-na LUGAL be-li₂-[ia₂] | |
| 2 | i-da-an | |
| 3 | {lu₂v}qur-bu-te | |
| 4 | [is]-si-ia | |
| 5 | [liš]-pu-ru | |
| 6 | [TA@v] pa-an | |
| 7 | [par]-⸢ri⸣-ṣu-te | |
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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