ABL 0831 (P237812)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0831 |
|---|---|
| ID | P237812 |
| 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/saa18 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:7] o 1o 1–o 77 | To [the king] of the lands, [my] lord: your servant, Itti-Marduk-balaṭu. May the gods of all the lands bless the king, my lord! Although I was a dead dog, the king, my lord, has revived me. |
| Obverse [7:13] o 88–o 1313 | The gods of the king have set out in procession (and) celebrated the festival. The guard of the temple is well. In [...] |
| Reverse [1:4] r 2'2'–r 4'4' | It is written in the treaty: "Write to me (about) whatever you see or hear." |
| Reverse [4:11] r 5'5'–r 11'11' | The sheikhs who were settled over Harmašu have come here. Some of them have certainly gone to Elam. I h[ave] (now) wri[tten] to the king, my lord. |
| Reverse [11:16] r 12'12'– | (As to) the horses which the king sent [to] Uruk, I have harnessed [...] and [...] |
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⸣-[ia₂] | |
| 2 | ARAD-ka {1}KI—{d}AMAR.UTU—TIN | |
| 3 | DINGIR-MEŠ ša₂ KUR.KUR gab-bi | |
| 4 | a-na LUGAL be-li₂-ia | |
| 5 | lik-ru-bu ša₂ kal-bi | |
| 6 | mi-i-ti a-na-ku | |
| 7 | LUGAL be-li₂-a u₂-bal-liṭ-an-ni | |
| 8 | DINGIR-MEŠ ša₂ LUGAL | |
| 9 | it-te-bu-u₂ i-sin-nu | |
| 10 | i-tep-šu₂ šul-mu | |
| 11 | a-na ma-aṣ-ṣar-ti | |
| 12 | ša₂ E₂.KUR i-na | |
| 13 | [x x]+⸢x⸣ a ⸢x⸣+[x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | ⸢x x x x x x⸣ | |
| 2' | a-de-e iš-ša₂-ṭi-ir | |
| 3' | um-ma ma-la tam-ma-ra | |
| 4' | u₃ ta-šem-ma-aʾ | |
| 5' | šup-ra-ni {lu₂}na-si-ka-a-ti | |
| 6' | ša₂ ina UGU-hi {uru}har-ma-šu | |
| 7' | šu-šu-bu a-na a-kan-na | |
| 8' | it-tal-ku-ni i-ba-aš₂-ši | |
| 9' | ina ŠA₃-bi a-na {kur}NIM.MA{ki} | |
| 10' | it-tal-ku a-na LUGAL | |
| 11' | be-li₂-ia al-⸢tap⸣-[ra] | |
| 12' | {anše}KUR.RA-ME ša₂ LUGAL [a-na] | |
| 13' | UNUG{ki} iš-pu-ru ⸢x⸣+[x x] | |
| r.e. | ||
| 14 | ⸢aṣ⸣-ṣi-mid u₃ har-⸢x⸣+[x x x] | |
| 15 | [x] ⸢ul ri-x⸣+[x x] | |
Sources & licences
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