ABL 0334 (P237763)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0334 |
|---|---|
| ID | P237763 |
| 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 [0:8] o 1o 1–o 88 | To the king of the lands, my lord: your servant Ninurta-aha-iddin. Good health to the king, my lord! May Nabû and Marduk bless the king, my lord! May the great gods make the foundation of your offspring as durable as heaven and earth. |
| Obverse [8:13] o 99– | I have s[et (aside) ...] for the k[ing, my lord]; let them fetch and con[sult ...]. |
| Reverse [0:1] r 1r 1–r 1r 1 | I have [...]ed the second [...] |
| Reverse [1:2] r 22–r 22 | on [......] |
| Reverse [2:3] r 33–r 33 | of the house of my lord [...] |
| Reverse [3:10] r 44–r 1010 | Let me read the tablets in the presence of the king, my lord, and let me put down on them whatever is agreeable to the king; whatever is not acceptable to the king, I shall remove from them. |
| Reverse [10:13] r 1111– | The tablets I am speaking about are worth preserving until far-off days. |
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 KUR.KUR be-li₂-ia | |
| 2 | ARAD-ka {1}{d}MAŠ—ŠEŠ—SUM-na | |
| 3 | lu-u DI-mu a-na LUGAL EN-ia₂ | |
| 4 | {d}PA u {d}AMAR.UTU a-na LUGAL | |
| 5 | EN-ia₂ lik-ru-bu DINGIR-MEŠ GAL-MEŠ | |
| 6 | ki-ma AN-e u KI.TIM | |
| 7 | iš-di pi-ri-iʾ-ka | |
| 8 | lu-ki-in-nu-u₂ | |
| 9 | ši-ki-⸢in-nu E₂ x⸣ | |
| 10 | a-na ⸢LUGAL⸣ [EN-ia] | |
| 11 | al-⸢ta-kan⸣ [x x x] | |
| 12 | liš-šu-u₂ ⸢li⸣-[mu-ru] | |
| r | ||
| 1 | 02-u₂ ap-⸢ta⸣ [x x x x] | |
| 2 | UGU-hi bi-⸢im⸣-[x x x] | |
| 3 | ša₂ E₂—EN-⸢ia⸣ E₂—EN-⸢ia⸣ [x x x] | |
| 4 | ṭup-pa-a-ni ina ⸢pa-ni⸣ | |
| 5 | LUGAL EN-ia₂ lul-si-ma | |
| 6 | mim-ma ša₂ pa-an LUGAL | |
| 7 | mah-ru a-na ŠA₃-bi | |
| 8 | lu-še-ri-id mim-ma | |
| 9 | ša₂ pa-an LUGAL la mah-ru | |
| 10 | la ŠA₃-bi u₂-še-le | |
| 11 | ṭup-pa-a-ni ša₂ ad-bu-ub | |
| r.e. | ||
| 12 | a-na UD-me ṣa-a-ti | |
| 13 | a-na ša₂-ka-nu ṭa-a-bi | |
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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