ABL 0970 (P334650)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0970 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334650 |
| 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 1'1'–o 7'7' | [May they appoint a guardian of health and life] for the k[ing, my lord]! May they sate the king, [my lord], with old age and fullness of life! May they keep firm the foundations of the royal th[rone] of the king, my lord, until far-off days! May the great gods of heaven and earth in their righteous hearts bless the king, my lord! |
| Obverse [7:12] o 8'8'– | All the charges are doing very well; the king, my lord, can be happy. |
| Reverse [0:11] r 1r 1–r 1111 | I have done as the king, my lord, wrote to me: I went through an effective purification ritual in the eunuchs' wing, and it is (now) closed off. I consecrated the (divine) statues in the house of Bal(a)ṭayu and performed the 'mouth-washing' ceremony. (Furthermore) I drew a picture of the sta[r ...], seated a dog [upon it], set up a reed altar, and went through an(other) effective purification ritual. |
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' | TA@v ⸢LUGAL⸣ [EN-ia lip-qi-du] | |
| 2' | ši-bu-tu₂ lit-tu-tu a-na LUGAL [EN-ia₂] | |
| 3' | lu-ša₂-ab-bi-u₂ iš-di {giš}[GU.ZA] | |
| 4' | šar-ru-ti ša LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 5' | a-na UD-me ṣa-a-ti lu-ki-in-[nu] | |
| 6' | DINGIR-MEŠ GAL-MEŠ ša AN-e u KI.⸢TIM⸣ | |
| 7' | ina ku-un ŠA₃-bi-šu₂-nu a-na LUGAL EN-ia₂ | |
| 8' | lik-ru-bu DI-mu a—dan-niš | |
| 9' | a-na {lu₂}pi-qit-ta-a-ti gab-bu | |
| 10' | ŠA₃-bu ša LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 11' | lu ṭa-ab-šu | |
| r | ||
| 1 | ki-i ša LUGAL be-li₂ iš-pur-an-ni | |
| 2 | e-ta-pa-aš₂ tak-pir-tu KALAG-tu₂ | |
| 3 | ina UGU E₂—ŠU.2 E₂—ŠU.2 ša {lu₂}SAG-MEŠ-ni | |
| 4 | us-se-ti-iq pa-rik-tu₂ par-kat₃ | |
| 5 | ina E₂ {1}bal-ṭa-a.a NU-MEŠ-ni | |
| 6 | u₂-ta-aš₂-ši-iš KA.[LUH].⸢U₃⸣.DA | |
| 7 | uq-ṭar-ri-ib ṣa-lam {⸢mul⸣}[x x x] | |
| 8 | u₂-ta-aṣ-ṣir UR.KU [ina UGU] | |
| 9 | us-se-ši-ib {gi}DU₈ [uk]-⸢tin⸣ | |
| 10 | tak-pir-tu ⸢KALAG⸣-tu₂ us-se-ti-iq | |
| 11 | [x x x x x]+⸢x LUGAL EN-ia⸣ | |
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