ABL 0499 (P237964)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0499 |
|---|---|
| ID | P237964 |
| 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 [0:5] o 1o 1–o 55 | To the king of the lands, my lord: your servant Rašil. Good health to the king, my lord! May Nabû and Marduk bless the king, my lord! |
| Obverse [5:12] o 66–o 1212 | The king, my lord, has reared me from my childhood until the present day, and ten times has the king, my lord, taken my hand and saved my life from my enemies. |
| Obverse [12:19] o 1313– | You are a merciful king. You have done good to all the four quarters of the earth and [placed] the plant of life in their nostrils. |
| Reverse [3:4] r 44–r 44 | Now, [...... are pl]otting |
| Reverse [5:7] r 66–r 77 | I am [......]. |
| Reverse [7:12] r 88–r 1212 | May the king, [my lord, n]ot abandon me! May I not drift apart from the king, my lord! [I am] a servant of the king. [Let the ......] and [...] me. |
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 | |
| 2 | ARAD-ka {1}TUK-ši—DINGIR | |
| 3 | lu-u₂ šu-lum a-na LUGAL EN-a | |
| 4 | {d}AG u {d}AMAR.UTU a-na LUGAL | |
| 5 | EN-ia₂ lik-ru-bu | |
| 6 | ul-tu ṣe-eh-re-ku | |
| 7 | a-di UGU UD-mu a-ga-a | |
| 8 | LUGAL EN-a ur-tab-ba-an-ni | |
| 9 | u₃ 10-šu₂ la ŠA₃-bi {lu₂}KUR₂-MEŠ | |
| 10 | LUGAL EN-a ŠU.2-a | |
| 11 | ki-i iṣ-ba-tu | |
| 12 | ub-tal-liṭ-an-ni | |
| 13 | LUGAL re-ma-nu at-ta | |
| b.e. | ||
| 14 | a-na kip-pat er-bet-ti | |
| r | ||
| 1 | ṭa-ab-ti te-te-pu-⸢uš⸣ | |
| 2 | u₃ ⸢U₂⸣ NAM.TI.LA | |
| 3 | a-⸢na⸣ [na-hi]-ri-šu₂-nu | |
| 4 | [ta-al-ta-kan] en-na | |
| 5 | [x x x id]-⸢dab⸣-bu | |
| 6 | [x x x x x]-ni-šu₂ | |
| 7 | [x x x x x]-ak | |
| 8 | LUGAL [EN-a] ⸢la⸣ u₂-maš-šar-an-ni | |
| 9 | la [ŠU.2 LUGAL EN-ia₂ | |
| 10 | ⸢la⸣ el-li | |
| 11 | {⸢lu₂}ARAD⸣ ša₂ LUGAL | |
| 12 | [x x x x]+⸢x⸣-ma | |
| 13 | [x x x x]-ni | |
Sources & licences
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