ABL 0670 (P334468)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0670 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334468 |
| 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 [0:5] o 1o 1–o 55 | To the king, my lord: your servant Issar-šumu-ereš. Good health to the king, my lord! May Nabû and Marduk bless the king, my lord! |
| Obverse [5:20] o 66– | As to what the king, my lord, wrote to me: "Ask Bel-naṣir, Bel-ipuš and (other) Babylonians whom you know" — I asked them, and they said to me as follows: "An hour after sunrise, the display takes place; an hour and a half after sunrise, [the disp]lay takes place again. [Thereafter] your [bu]rnt-offering [is made]; the display [...] |
| Reverse [0:11] r 1'1'–r 11'11' | Bel-i[puš] said [as fol]lows: "When the display has been finished, two torches should be moved past the place where the king is staying, one to the right, one to the left, and (then) brought out. Alternatively, on the 5th day, when the king goes out, an exorcist should move a censer and a torch past (the king)." |
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}15—MU—APIN-eš | |
| 3 | lu šul-mu a-na LUGAL EN-ia₂ | |
| 4 | {d}AG u {d}AMAR.UTU | |
| 5 | a-na LUGAL EN-ia lik-ru-bu | |
| 6 | ša LUGAL be-li iš-pur-an-ni | |
| 7 | ma-a a-na {1}EN—PAB-ir | |
| 8 | a-na {1}EN—DU₃-uš | |
| 9 | u₃ a-na DUMU-MEŠ KA₂.DINGIR.RA{ki} | |
| 10 | ša u₂-da-kan-ni ša₂-ʾa-al | |
| 11 | as-sa-ʾa-al ki-i an-ni-e | |
| 12 | ⸢iq⸣-ṭi-bu-u-ni ma-a ina 1/2 KASKAL.GID₂ UD-mu | |
| 13 | [i]-⸢šaq⸣-qu-a tak-lim-tu | |
| 14 | [u₂]-kal-lu-mu | |
| 15 | [ma-a] 2/3 KASKAL.GID₂ UD-mu [ša₂]-⸢qu-a⸣ | |
| 16 | [tak-lim]-⸢tu⸣-ma u₂-kal-lu-mu | |
| 17 | [x x šu]-⸢ru⸣-up-tu₂-ka | |
| 18 | [i-šar-ru-pu] tak-lim-⸢tu₂⸣ | |
| 19 | [x x x x] ⸢x⸣ [x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | {1}⸢EN—DU₃⸣-[uš ki-i an]-⸢ni⸣-e | |
| 2' | iq-ṭi-bi ma-a ki-ma tak-lim-tu₂ | |
| 3' | u₂-ta-al-li-u₂ | |
| 4' | ma-a ina E₂ LUGAL kam-mu-su-ni | |
| 5' | 02 GI.IZI.LA₂ 01-en a-na ZAG | |
| 6' | 01-en a-na KAB lu-še-ti-qu | |
| 7' | a-na qa-an-ni lu-še-ṣi-u | |
| 8' | ma-a u₂-la-a UD 05-KAM₂\t | |
| 9' | ki-ma LUGAL a-na qa-an-ni | |
| 10' | it-tu-ṣi {lu₂}MAŠ.MAŠ | |
| 11' | NIG₂.NA GI.IZI.LA₂ | |
| 12' | lu-še-ti-iq | |
Sources & licences
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