ABL 0349 (P240133)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0349 |
|---|---|
| ID | P240133 |
| 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/saa17 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:9] 11–99 | [T]o the king, my lord: your servant Nabû-šar-ahhešu, who guards the 'mule house' of the house of Nabû-le'i at Borsippa. Good health to the king, my lord! May the king, my lord, be in very good spirits! My guard, where the king, my lord, appointed me, is well. |
| Obverse [9:26] 1010– | I am now writing to the king, my lord: The Borsippeans who rebelled have killed one other, and we remain in the guard where the king, our lord, appointed us. The Itu'u, the Iaduqu and the Rihiqu whom the king, my lord, stationed for the guard with me — we are keeping our guard together. The king, our lord, can be glad. |
| Reverse [10:12] r 1111–r 1212 | May the king, our lord, write to us, so we will be in good spirits. |
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) |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | [a]-na LUGAL be-li₂-ia | |
| 2 | ARAD-ka {1}{d}AG—LUGAL—ŠEŠ-MEŠ-šu₂ | |
| 3 | ša₂ E₂—ku-dan-ni E₂—ku-dan-ni E₂—ku-dan-ni ša₂ E₂ {1}{d}AG—DA | |
| 4 | i-na BAR₂.SIPA{ki} i-na-aṣ-ṣa-ru | |
| 5 | lu-u šul-mu a-na LUGAL be-li₂-ia₂ | |
| 6 | ŠA₃-bi ša₂ LUGAL be-li₂-ia₂ ma-aʾ-diš | |
| 7 | lu-u ṭa-a-bi šul-mu | |
| 8 | a-na ma-aṣ-ṣar-ta-ia | |
| 9 | a-šar LUGAL be-li₂-a ip-qi₂-dan-ni a-du-u₂ | |
| 10 | a-na LUGAL be-li₂-ia₂ al-tap-ra | |
| 11 | {lu₂}BAR₂.SIPA{ki}MEŠ ša₂ si-i-hi | |
| 12 | i-pu-uš šu-nu-ma a-ha-meš | |
| 13 | id-du-ku u a-ni-ni | |
| 14 | i-na UGU-hi ma-aṣ-ṣar-ta | |
| 15 | ša₂ LUGAL be-li₂-a-ni | |
| r | ||
| 1 | ip-qi₂-dan-na-an-⸢ši⸣ | |
| 2 | u₂-šu-uz-za-an-ni | |
| 3 | {lu₂}u₂-tu-uʾ-a.a | |
| 4 | {lu₂}ia-a-da-qu-a.a | |
| 5 | u₃ {lu₂}ri-hi-qu-a.a | |
| 6 | ša₂ LUGAL be-li₂-a it-ti-ia₂ | |
| 7 | a-na ma-aṣ-ṣar-ta | |
| 8 | u₂-ša₂-az-iz-zi ma-aṣ-ṣar-ta-a-ni | |
| 9 | it-ti a-ha-meš ni-na-aṣ-ṣa-ru | |
| 10 | ŠA₃-bi ša₂ LUGAL be-li₂-a-ni | |
| 11 | lu-u ṭa-a-bi LUGAL be-li₂-a-ni | |
| 12 | liš-pur-an-na-ši-ma | |
| 13 | ŠA₃-[ba-a]-ni lu-u ṭa-ba-an-ši | |
Sources & licences
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