ABL 0853 (P237932)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0853 |
|---|---|
| ID | P237932 |
| 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 of the universe, my lord: yo]ur [servant], Aqar-B[el-lumur]. May [Na]bû and Marduk bles[s] the ki[ng of the universe], my lord. |
| Obverse [4:20] o 55– | Lugalmarada of Ma[rad] i[s] the brother of Nabû and the brother of Nergal. The king, your father, took away the territory of Marad and, having written it down, placed it (= the relevant document) in Ezida before Nabû. The commandant of M[ara]d used to bring his gift to your father on his own. |
| Reverse [3:7] r 44–r 77 | Now the 'son' of Dakkuru has taken Marad for himself. |
| Reverse [7:9] r 88–r 99 | Before he comes (to the reception), the k[ing sh]ould as[k] |
| Reverse [9:10] r 1010–r 1010 | [...] all |
| Reverse [10:11] r 1111–r 1111 | [...] me[n] |
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 ŠU₂ be-li₂-ia] | |
| 2 | [ARAD]-⸢ka⸣ {1}a-qar—{d}⸢EN⸣—[lu-mur] | |
| 3 | [d].⸢AG⸣ u {d}AMAR.UTU a-na ⸢LUGAL⸣ [ŠU₂] | |
| 4 | be-li₂-ia lik-ru-⸢bu⸣ | |
| 5 | {d}LUGAL.MAR₂.DA ša₂ ⸢MAR₂⸣.[DA{ki]} | |
| 6 | ŠEŠ-šu₂ ša₂ {d}AG ŠEŠ-[šu₂] | |
| 7 | ša₂ {d}U.GUR šu-[u₂] | |
| 8 | LUGAL AD-ka mi-iṣ-⸢ri⸣ | |
| 9 | ša₂ MAR₂.DA{ki} i-te-ṭi-ri | |
| 10 | ki-i iš-ṭu-ru | |
| 11 | ina E₂.ZI.DA ina pa-⸢an⸣ {d}AG | |
| 12 | il-ta-kan | |
| 13 | {lu₂}GAR—UMUŠ {lu₂}GAR—UMUŠ {lu₂}GAR—UMUŠ ša₂ {uru}⸢ma-rad⸣ | |
| b.e. | ||
| 14 | šu-u₂ | |
| 15 | ina ra-ma-ni-šu₂ | |
| r | ||
| 1 | na-mur-ta-šu₂ | |
| 2 | a-na AD-ka | |
| 3 | i-na-aš₂-ša₂-a | |
| 4 | en-na DUMU—{1}da-ku-ru DUMU—{1}da-ku-ru | |
| 5 | {uru}ma-ra-ad | |
| 6 | a-na ra-ma-ni-šu₂ | |
| 7 | it-ta-šu₂ | |
| 8 | a-di la il-la-ku | |
| 9 | ⸢LUGAL li⸣-iš-ʾa-⸢al⸣ | |
| 10 | [x x] gab-⸢bi⸣ | |
| 11 | [x x x] ⸢ERIM⸣-[MEŠ] | |
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
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