ABL 1094 (P334732)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 1094 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334732 |
| 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/saa13 · 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: yo[ur servant], Urdu-Nabû. Good health to the king, my lord. May Aššur and Šamaš bless the king, my lord. |
| Obverse [5:13] o 66–o 1313 | On the 28th day we will clear the temple, and I will bring in the wooden ladders. On the 29th, we will draw the curtain, take down all the jewelry of Ištar and [rem]ove Ištar from the lion. |
| Obverse [13:15] o 1414– | [...] the king [...]. |
| Reverse [0:3] r 1r 1–r 33 | On the 29th, if the (moon) god is seen, we will fill the (ritual) bath. |
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}ARAD—{d}AG | |
| 3 | lu šul-mu a-na LUGAL EN-ia₂ | |
| 4 | {d}aš-šur {d}UTU | |
| 5 | a-na LUGAL EN-ia lik-ru-bu | |
| 6 | UD 28-KAM₂ E₂ nu-pa-sa-ak | |
| 7 | {giš}me-li-ia-a-ni | |
| 8 | u₂-qar-ra-ab | |
| 9 | UD 29-KAM₂ mar-du-tu₂ ni-pa-ri-ik | |
| 10 | šu-ku-ut-tu ša {d}15 | |
| 11 | gab-bu nu-še-ra-da | |
| 12 | {d}15 ⸢TA@v⸣ UGU UR.MAH | |
| 13 | [ni-na]-⸢ka⸣-ra | |
| 14 | [x x x x] LUGAL [x x x]+⸢x⸣ | |
| r | ||
| 1 | [UD] 29-KAM₂ ⸢šum⸣-ma DINGIR | |
| 2 | it-ta-ma-ar | |
| 3 | A-MEŠ ša rim-ki | |
| 4 | nu-ma-al-la | |
Sources & licences
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