ABL 0773 (P334547)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0773 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334547 |
| 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 [0:6] o 1o 1–o 66 | To the king, my lord: your servant Marduk-šumu-uṣur. Good health to the king, my lord! May Nabû and Marduk bless the king, my lord! |
| Obverse [6:19] o 77– | Concerning the haruspex appointed to the service of Arbayu who last year made a report to the king, [my] lord, and said: "When A[rbayu] comes, [let them question him] and decide about [the re]port [concerning him]," |
| Reverse [3:8] r 44–r 88 | Arbayu is now here — let the king question [him] and decide about the report of his servant. |
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}{d}AMAR.UTU—MU—PAB | |
| 3 | lu-u šul-mu | |
| 4 | a-na LUGAL be-li₂-ia | |
| 5 | {d}AG u {d}AMAR.UTU | |
| 6 | a-na LUGAL be-li₂-ia | |
| 7 | lik-ru-bu ina UGU {lu₂}HAL | |
| 8 | ša ina IGI {1}ar₂-ba-a.a | |
| 9 | pa-qi₂-du-u-ni | |
| 10 | ša ina ša₂-daq-diš | |
| 11 | ṭe₃-e-⸢mu⸣ | |
| 12 | ina IGI LUGAL be-li₂-[ia] | |
| 13 | u₂-te-ru-u-[ni] | |
| 14 | ma-a ki-ma {1}⸢ar₂⸣-[ba-a.a] | |
| 15 | it-tal-⸢ka⸣ | |
| r | ||
| 1 | [ma-a] a-na [x x x] | |
| 2 | [ṭe₃]-en-[šu₂] | |
| 3 | [li]-⸢ip⸣-ru-[su] | |
| 4 | ⸢u₂-ma⸣-a {1}ar₂-[ba-a.a] | |
| 5 | ⸢an⸣-na-[ka] | |
| 6 | LUGAL liš-⸢al⸣-[šu₂] | |
| 7 | ṭe₃-e-mu | |
| 8 | ša ARAD-šu₂ | |
| 9 | li-ip-ru-su | |
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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