ABL 0516 (P237075)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0516 |
|---|---|
| ID | P237075 |
| 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/saa17 · 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: your servant Bel-iddina: I would gladly die for the king, my lord! May Nabû and Marduk bless the king, my lord! Say to the king, my lord: |
| Obverse [5:11] o 66–o 1111 | Concerning the writing-board of the temples, of which the king wrote to me: "Send the rest of the work and the [remain]ing writing-boards here through Šarru-amuranni!" — |
| Obverse [11:16] o 1212–o 1616 | I have now examined (all the temples) from Nemed-Laguda to Šasanaku and have written the writing-boards. As the king commanded, I shall send them to the king, my lord, via Šarru-amuranni. |
| Obverse [16:25] o 1717– | After I had examined the (temples) from Zabban to Sippar in the same way, I entrusted them to Nabû-ahhe-bulliṭ, the delegate of Esaggil. I shall certainly examine the rest of the temples in the vicinity of Babylon in the same way. |
| Reverse [4:8] r 55–r 88 | If the king wishes, let everything be written on one single writing-board. I am afraid to go to Der and Nippur without (explicit orders from) the king. |
| Reverse [8:18] r 99–r 1818 | During my work, I listened closely, and in all Sealand there is no other servant of the king as devoted to the king and as loyal to the words of the king as Sîn-iddina. The whole of Bit-Yakin loaths him. Were Yakin still alive, one like Sîn-iddina would not be shiel[ded]. |
| Reverse [18:19] r 1919–r 1919 | The king [should know] all this! |
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-ia ARAD-ka | |
| 2 | {1}{d}EN—SUM-na a-na di-na-an | |
| 3 | LUGAL be-li₂-ia lul-lik {d}AG u {d}AMAR.UTU | |
| 4 | a-na LUGAL be-li₂-ia lik-ru-bu | |
| 5 | um-ma-a a-na LUGAL be-li₂-ia-a-ma | |
| 6 | aš₂-⸢šu₂ {giš}LE.U₅.UM⸣ ša₂ E₂.KUR-MEŠ | |
| 7 | ša₂ LUGAL iš-pu-ra um-ma ri-ih-ti | |
| 8 | ⸢pa⸣-aʾ-lu u₃ {giš}LE.U₅.UM-MEŠ | |
| 9 | ⸢ri⸣-[he-e]-tu ina ŠU.2 {1}LUGAL—a-mur-an-ni | |
| 10 | šu-bi-la en-na a-du-u₂ ul-tu | |
| 11 | UŠ—{d}la-gu-du{ki} a-di | |
| 12 | ša-sa-na-ku{ki} a-ta-mar as-si-niq | |
| 13 | u₃ ina {giš}LE.U₅.UM-MEŠ | |
| 14 | al-ta-ṭar ki-i ša₂ LUGAL iq-bu-u₂ | |
| 15 | ina ŠU.2 {1}LUGAL—a-mur-an-ni-im-ma | |
| 16 | a-na LUGAL be-li₂-ia u₂-šeb-bi-la | |
| 17 | ša₂ ul-tu {uru}za-an-ban a-di | |
| 18 | sip-par{ki} ki-i pi-i an-nim-ma | |
| 19 | ki-i as-ni-qu ina pa-an | |
| 20 | {1}{d}AG—ŠEŠ-MEŠ—bul-liṭ | |
| r | ||
| 1 | {lu₂}qi₂-pi ša₂ E₂.SAG.IL₂ ap-te-qid | |
| 2 | ri-ih-ti E₂.KUR-MEŠ ša₂ a-na | |
| 3 | li-me-ti TIN.TIR{ki} ki-i pi-i | |
| 4 | an-nim-ma a-sa-an-ni-qu | |
| 5 | ki-i pa-an LUGAL be-li₂-ia mah-ru | |
| 6 | gab-bi ina 01-en {giš}LE.U₅.UM | |
| 7 | liš-ša₂-ṭir₂ ša₂ la LUGAL pal-ha-ku-ma | |
| 8 | a-na BAD₃.DINGIR{ki} u₃ EN.LIL₂{ki} | |
| 9 | ul al-lak it-ti dul-li-ia | |
| 10 | uz-ni ki-i aš₂-ku-nu i-na | |
| 11 | KUR—tam-tim gab-bi-šu₂ ARAD ša₂ LUGAL ša₂ a-na UGU | |
| 12 | LUGAL am-ru u₃ a-mat LUGAL na-aṣ-ru | |
| 13 | ša₂ a-ki {1}{d}30—SUM-na ia-a-nu | |
| 14 | E₂—{1}ia-ki-ni gab-bi ma-ar-ti | |
| 15 | la—pa-ni-šu₂ i-šat-tu-u₂ | |
| 16 | ki-i {1}ia-ki-ni ⸢bal⸣-ṭu | |
| 17 | ki ša₂ {1}{d}30—[SUM-na] | |
| 18 | ul ha-⸢ri⸣-[im] | |
| 19 | gab-bi LUGAL [lu-u₂ i-di] | |
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