ABL 1140 (P334750)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 1140 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334750 |
| 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 [2:4] o 3'3'–o 4'4' | [When] he reveres the gods, it (the day) is good [for p]raying. |
| Obverse [4:15] o 5'5'– | The favourable days about which the king, my lord, spoke are: the 10th, the 15th, the 16th, the 18th, the 20th, the 22nd, the 24th and the 26th, altogether 8 days of the month Iyyar (II) which are good for undertaking an enterprise and revering the gods. |
| Reverse [4:5] r 55–r 55 | The 10th: at court, favourable; |
| Reverse [5:6] r 66–r 66 | The 15th: perfect seed; |
| Reverse [6:7] r 77–r 77 | The 16th: joy of heart; |
| Reverse [7:8] r 88–r 88 | [The 1]8th: convert the cleaned (barley); |
| Reverse [8:10] r 99–r 1010 | [The 20th]: let him kill a snake, he will reach the first [rank]; |
| Reverse [10:11] r 1111–r 1111 | [The 22nd]: good for undertaking an enterprise; |
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' | [x x x] ⸢x⸣ [x x x x] | |
| 2' | [x]+⸢x⸣ [x x] SIG₅-iq | |
| 3' | [ki-i] DINGIR-ME-ni i-pa-lah₃-u-ni | |
| 4' | [ana] ⸢su⸣-le-e da-mi₃-iq | |
| 5' | UD-ME DUG₃.GA-ME ša LUGAL be-li₂ šu₂ | |
| 6' | iq-bu-u₂-ni | |
| 7' | UD 10-KAM₂\t UD 15-KAM₂\t UD 16-KAM₂\t | |
| 8' | UD 18-KAM₂\t UD 20-KAM₂\t | |
| b.e. | ||
| 9' | UD 22-KAM₂\t UD 24-KAM₂\t | |
| r | ||
| 1 | UD 26-KAM₂\t PAB 08 UD-ME | |
| 2 | ša {iti}GUD ša | |
| 3 | a-na e-peš ṣi-bu-ti | |
| 4 | pa-la-ah DINGIR ṭa-ba-a-ni | |
| 5 | UD 10-KAM₂\t ina de-ni ma-gir | |
| 6 | ⸢UD⸣ 15-KAM₂\t {še}NUMUN šuk-lu-lu | |
| 7 | [UD] 16-KAM₂\t hu-ud ŠA₃-bi | |
| 8 | [UD] 18-KAM₂\t za-ku-tu₂ pu-šu-ur | |
| 9 | [UD 20-KAM₂\t] MUŠ li-duk | |
| 10 | [a-ša₂-re]-du-tu DU-ak | |
| 11 | [UD 22-KAM₂\t ṭa]-ab ina e-peš ṣi-bu-ti | |
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
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