ABL 0501 (P237672)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0501 |
|---|---|
| ID | P237672 |
| 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 [0:2] o 1o 1–o 22 | [To the king, my lord]: your servant, Rašil. May [Marduk and Zarpan]itu bless the king, my lord. |
| Obverse [2:8] o 33–o 88 | I [was a dead dog], but the king, my lord, revived me. He helped me conquer [my famine and h]unger. [Now if] I had not written [to] the king, my lord, concerning the house of my lords [and ...], they would not have sought [... from] my [hands, and the king, my lord], would not have stretched out [his hand towar]d me. |
| Obverse [8:14] o 99–o 1414 | [And because the]y saw [that we ourselves] are rebuilding Babylon, they too complained. [Just now], when I heard, I wrote [to the king, my lord]. |
| Reverse [1:2] r 2'2'–r 2'2' | [......] land of the king |
| Reverse [2:7] r 3'3'–r 7'7' | (r 3) (Break) |
| Reverse [7:8] r 8'8'–r 8'8' | [...... s]ent |
| Reverse [8:9] r 9'9'–r 9'9' | [The king should d]o [as he] deems best. |
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-ia₂] ARAD-ka {1}TUK-ši—DINGIR | |
| 2 | {[d}AMAR.UTU {d}zar-pa]-ni-tum a-na LUGAL EN-ia₂ lik-ru-bu | |
| 3 | [kal-bi me-e-te a]-⸢na⸣-ku LUGAL EN-a ub-ta-liṭ-a-ni | |
| 4 | [su-un-qi₂ u₃ bu]-bu-ti ul-tak-šid-an-ni | |
| 5 | [a-du-u₂ ki-i] a-na UGU E₂—EN-MEŠ-e-a E₂—EN-MEŠ-e-a | |
| 6 | [u₃ x x x a-na] LUGAL EN-ia₂ la al-tap-ra | |
| 7 | [x x x x ina ŠU.2-ia₂ ul u₂-ba-ʾu-u₂ | |
| 8 | [LUGAL be-li₂ ŠU-su a-na] ⸢UGU⸣-ia ul u₂-ta-ri-ṣi | |
| 9 | [u₃ ki-i i]-mu-ru-ma TIN.TIR{ki} | |
| 10 | [ni-i-nu ni]-⸢ban⸣-nu-u₂ šu-nu-ma da-ab-bu | |
| 11 | [en-na a-du-u₂] ki-i aš₂-mu-u₂ | |
| 12 | [a-na pa-an LUGAL be-li₂-ia] ⸢al⸣-tap-ra | |
| 13 | [x x x x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣-ti | |
| 14 | [x x x x x x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [x x x x x x x]-a ⸢x⸣+[x] | |
| 2' | [x x x x x x x] KUR LUGAL | |
| 3' | [x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣-bi | |
| 4' | [x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣-pa-ra | |
| 5' | [x x x x x x]-u₂ a-ga-a | |
| 6' | [x x x x x x]-u₂ | |
| 7' | [x x x x x x]-un | |
| 8' | [x x x x x]-⸢tap⸣-ra | |
| 9' | [LUGAL a-ki ša₂ i]-le-ʾu-u₂ | |
| 10' | [li-pu]-uš | |
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
- 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) · ORACC project editions, https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ ; cite the individual project (see texts.extra_json.project)
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