ABL 0722 (P334511)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0722 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334511 |
| 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, our lord: your servants Marduk-šumu-uṣur, Naṣiru and Tabnî. Good health to the king, our lord! [May] Aššur, Šamaš, [Bel] and Nabû [bl]ess the king, our lord! |
| Obverse [7:14] o 88–o 1414 | (8) (Too broken for translation) |
| Obverse [14:22] o 1515– | The series should be rev[ised]. Let the king command: two 'long' tablets containing explanations of antiquated words should be removed, and two tablets of the haruspices' corpus should be put (instead). |
| Reverse [5:11] r 66–r 1111 | Two rams should be sacrificed before Nabû and before Šamaš; Šamaš and [Na]bû [...] days [...] |
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-ni⸣ | |
| 2 | ARAD-MEŠ-ka {1}{d}AMAR.UTU—MU—PAB | |
| 3 | {1}na-ṣi-ru {1}tab-ni-i | |
| 4 | lu DI-mu a-na LUGAL be-li₂-ni | |
| 5 | aš-šur {d}UTU {[d}EN] u {d}AG | |
| 6 | a-na LUGAL be-li-ni | |
| 7 | [lik]-⸢ru⸣-bu | |
| 8 | ina [x x] be ni | |
| 9 | ⸢x⸣+[x]+⸢x⸣ u ⸢DINGIR⸣ | |
| 10 | ⸢x⸣+[x x]+⸢x⸣ LUGAL ⸢x x⸣ | |
| 11 | [x x x]+⸢x⸣ ni ⸢i⸣ šu₂ | |
| 12 | [x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ | |
| 13 | [x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ | |
| 14 | ⸢x⸣+[x x x lu]-u DUG₃.GA | |
| 15 | ⸢iš⸣-ka-ru | |
| 16 | li-ib-[ru-u] | |
| r | ||
| 1 | LUGAL li-iq-bi | |
| 2 | 02-ta li-gi-na-a-te | |
| 3 | ša ṣa-a-ti | |
| 4 | li-iš-šur-ru | |
| 5 | 02-ta ša ba-ru-te | |
| 6 | liš-kun 02 UDU.NITA₂-MEŠ | |
| 7 | ina IGI {d}AG | |
| 8 | ina IGI {d}UTU | |
| 9 | le-pu-⸢šu⸣ | |
| 10 | {d}UTU u₃ {[d]}⸢AG⸣ | |
| 11 | ⸢UD-me⸣ [x] i-⸢pat⸣-[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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