ABL 1401 (P334885)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 1401 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334885 |
| Museum no. | BM 099242 |
| 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 [0:3] o 1'1'–o 3'3' | [To the king, my lord: your servant Adad-šumu-uṣur. Good health to the king, my lord! May Nabû and M]arduk bless [the king], my lord! |
| Obverse [3:11] o 4'4'–o 11'11' | [Concerning the planet] Mars [about which the king, my lord], wrote to me, does [the king] not know [that] it is [...]? [...] it moves [towards the] star S[pica ... invasion of] locusts [...] |
| Reverse [0:3] r 1'1'–r 3'3' | [(Mars) is bright] and clothed in bri[lliance; ... a bad om]en for Subartu. We will remove [tho]se [...]. |
| Reverse [3:10] r 4'4'–r 10'10' | [We are] constantly [performing apotropaic rites] and 'hand-lifting' prayers [before Ma]rs [... There is nothing] to worry about; [the king], my lor[d, can be] at ease. |
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' | {[d}AG {d]}⸢AMAR⸣.UTU | |
| 2' | [a-na LUGAL] ⸢be⸣-li₂-ia | |
| 3' | [lik]-⸢ru⸣-bu | |
| 4' | [ina UGU {mul]}ṣal-bat-a-nu | |
| 5' | [ša₂ LUGAL be-li₂] iš-pur-an-ni | |
| 6' | [LUGAL be-li₂] ⸢la⸣ u₂-da-a | |
| 7' | [ki-i x x] ⸢x⸣-lu šu-tu-ni | |
| 8' | [x x x]-me-ra | |
| 9' | [ina ŠA₃ {mul]}⸢AB⸣.SIN₂ il-lak | |
| 10' | [ZI-ut] BURU₅ | |
| 11' | [x x x x] ⸢x x x⸣ | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [ša₂-ru]-⸢ri⸣ na-ši | |
| 2' | [x x x] ⸢HUL⸣ SU.BIR₄{ki} | |
| 3' | [x x an]-nu-te ni-suh₄ | |
| 4' | [NAM.BUR₂.BI u] ⸢ŠU⸣.IL₂.LA₂.KAM₂.MEŠ | |
| 5' | [ša IGI {mul}ṣal]-bat-a-nu | |
| 6' | [x x x x]+⸢x⸣ ka-a.a-ma-nu | |
| 7' | [ne₂-pa-aš₂] hi-iṭ-ṭu | |
| 8' | [la-aš₂-šu₂] ŠA₃-bu | |
| 9' | [ša₂ LUGAL be]-li₂-ia | |
| 10' | [lu-u DUG₃.GA x]+⸢x⸣ nu | |
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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