ABL 0673 (P334471)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0673 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334471 |
| 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 [0:7] o 1o 1–o 77 | 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 [7:16] o 88– | Concerning the cella of Nusku, about which the king, my lord, wrote to me: "Look up a favourable day, and also write down and send me how it should be erected" — |
| Reverse [0:6] r 1r 1–r 66 | Sivan (III) would have been a good month and the 17th a good day. (However) now the month is completely gone, (so) when can they do it? |
| Reverse [6:9] r 77–r 99 | Elul (VI) is a good month: it is (really) the month for it. During it they should make it, and also during it they should erect 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 EN-ia | |
| 2 | ARAD-ka {1}15—MU—KAM | |
| 3 | lu DI-mu a-na LUGAL | |
| 4 | EN-ia | |
| 5 | {d}PA u {d}AMAR.UTU | |
| 6 | a-na LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 7 | lik-ru-bu | |
| 8 | ina UGU at-me-ni | |
| 9 | ša {d}PA.TUG₂ | |
| 10 | ša LUGAL be-li | |
| 11 | iš-pur-an-ni | |
| 12 | ma-a UD DUG₃.GA a-mur | |
| 13 | u₃ a-ke-e | |
| 14 | ša u₂-ša₂-at-bu-u-ni | |
| 15 | šu-ṭur še-bi-la | |
| r | ||
| 1 | {iti}SIG₄ DUG₃.GA | |
| 2 | UD 17-KAM₂\t DUG₃.GA | |
| 3 | an-nu-rig | |
| 4 | ITI ga-mur it-ta-lak | |
| 5 | im—ma-ti im—ma-ti u₂-ša₂-an-ṣu-u | |
| 6 | e-pu-šu₂ | |
| 7 | {iti}KIN DUG₃.GA | |
| 8 | ITI-šu₂-ma šu-u | |
| 9 | ina ŠA₃-bi ⸢le⸣-e-pu-šu₂ | |
| 10 | ina ŠA₃-bi-ma lu-u₂-šat-bi-u | |
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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