ABL 0846 (P237845)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0846 |
|---|---|
| ID | P237845 |
| 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 [0:4] o 1o 1–o 44 | To the king, my lord: your servant, Šumaya. May Nabû and Marduk bless the king, my lord. Good health to the king, my lord! |
| Obverse [4:12] o 55–o 1212 | Didn't the king, my lord, give me an order as follows: "Go and bring the gods to Zanaki and let the people gather to you"? The gods of the king, my lord, made it succeed, and three thousand people came and gathered to me. |
| Obverse [12:16] o 1313–o 1616 | When Nabû-šarra-ibni, the prefect, [laid] hands on the city, [...] |
| Reverse [1:11] r 2'2'–r 11'11' | Also, there is a gua[rd] who has ta[ken a wife] from among the Ruṣapeans. He is a Damunean; thirty years ago he married a Zanakian woman. Now he has claimed her, and I have sent him to the king, my lord. The Zanakians take wives from among the Damuneans and the Gambuleans, (and) they are all making claims. The king, my lord, should not act wrongly in this. |
| Reverse [11:17] r 12'12'–r 17'17' | By the gods of the king, my lord, I should stay here until Bel sets out in procession. Everyone in this city has become rebellious. A messenger of the king, my lord, should come to give the city confidence and, for myself, to raise my spirits. |
| Reverse [17:22] r 18'18'– | May the king ask the governor whether or not my heart is completely devoted to the king, my lord, (and) may the governor stand beside the king, my lord. |
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-ia₂ | |
| 2 | ARAD-ka {1}šu-ma-a | |
| 3 | {d}AG u {d}AMAR.UTU a-na LUGAL be-li₂-ia₂ | |
| 4 | lik-ru-bu lu-u₂ DI-mu | |
| 5 | a-na LUGAL be-li₂-ia₂ ul ki-i | |
| 6 | pi-i an-ni-i LUGAL be-li₂ ṭe₃-em | |
| 7 | iš-ku-na-an-ni um-ma a-lik-ma | |
| 8 | DINGIR-MEŠ a-na {uru}za-na-ki | |
| 9 | a-bu-uk u₃ UN-MEŠ a-na | |
| 10 | UGU-hi-ka lip-hu-ru DINGIR-MEŠ | |
| 11 | ša₂ LUGAL be-li₂-ia₂ ki-i u₂-šal-li-mu | |
| 12 | UN-MEŠ 03-lim ip-tah-ru-ni | |
| 13 | {1}{d}AG—LUGAL—ib-ni {lu₂}šak-na | |
| 14 | ŠU.2 a-na ⸢ŠA₃-bi⸣ URU ki-i | |
| 15 | ⸢x x⸣ [x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ | |
| 16 | [x x x x x x x]-ma | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [x x x x] ⸢x x⸣ [x x x x x] | |
| 2' | [x x]-si u₃ {lu₂}na-ṣi-[ru o] | |
| 3' | [i]-ba-aš₂-šu₂ ša₂ ina {lu₂}ru-ṣa-pi ih-[ha-zu] | |
| 4' | {⸢lu₂⸣}da-mu-na-a.a šu₂-u₂ 30 MU.AN.NA-ME | |
| 5' | a-ga-a ul-tu {mi₂}{uru}za-na-ki-i-tu₂ | |
| 6' | i-hu-zu en-na up-taq-qir₃-šu₂ | |
| 7' | u₃ a-na pa-an LUGAL be-li₂-ia₂ | |
| 8' | il-tap-raš-šu₂ {lu₂}{uru}za-na-ki-u₂-a | |
| 9' | ina {lu₂}da-mu-nu u₃ {lu₂}gam-bu-la | |
| 10' | ih-ha-zu gab-bi u₂-paq-qa-ru | |
| 11' | LUGAL be-li₂ a-na a-ga-a | |
| 12' | la i-hi-ṭi DINGIR-MEŠ ša₂ LUGAL be-li₂-ia₂ | |
| 13' | lu-u₂ i-du-u₂ ki-i a-di | |
| 14' | pa-an ta-be₂-e {d}EN a-kan-na lu-šib | |
| 15' | mam-ma ina ŠA₃-bi URU a-ga-a is-se-⸢x⸣ | |
| 16' | {lu₂}A—KIN {lu₂}A—KIN ša₂ LUGAL be-li₂-ia₂ lil-li-kam₂-ma | |
| 17' | URU lu-⸢šar⸣-hi-iṣ u ia-a-šu₂ ŠA₃-bi | |
| 18' | ṭa-a-bu liš-ku-na-an-ni {lu₂}EN.NAM | |
| 19' | LUGAL liš-al ki-i ŠA₃-ba-a a-na | |
| 20' | LUGAL be-li₂-ia₂ la gu-mu-ru a-hu | |
| 21' | ša₂ LUGAL be-li₂-ia₂ {lu₂}EN.NAM | |
| r.e. | ||
| 22 | li-iz-ziz | |
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