ABL 0418 (P240331)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0418 |
|---|---|
| ID | P240331 |
| 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 [0:5] o 1o 1–o 55 | To the king, my lord: your servant, Ubaru, the commandant of Babylon. May Nabû and Marduk bless the king. |
| Obverse [5:9] o 66–o 99 | Now I pray every day to Marduk and Zarpanitu for the life of the king, my lord. |
| Obverse [9:24] o 1010– | I have entered Babylon. The people of Babylon welcomed me, and they bless the king every day, saying, "(He is) the one who returned Babylon's captives and booty." Also the chiefs of Chaldea from Sippar to the mouth of the sea bless the king, saying, "(he is) the one who resettled Babylon." |
| Reverse [9:12] r 1010–r 1212 | All the lands are happy before 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-ia | |
| 2 | ARAD-ka {1}u₂-ba-ru | |
| 3 | {lu₂}GAR—UMUŠ {lu₂}GAR—UMUŠ TIN.TIR{ki} | |
| 4 | {d}AG u₃ {d}AMAR.UTU | |
| 5 | a-na LUGAL lik-ru-bu | |
| 6 | a-du-u₂ UD-mu-us-su | |
| 7 | {d}AMAR.UTU u₃ {d}zar-pa-ni-tum | |
| 8 | a-na TIN ZI-MEŠ | |
| 9 | ša₂ LUGAL be-li₂-ia u₂-ṣal-la | |
| 10 | a-na TIN.TIR{ki} | |
| 11 | e-te-ru-bu TIN.TIR{ki}MEŠ | |
| 12 | ih-te-ṣi-nu-in-ni | |
| 13 | u₃ UD-mu-us-su | |
| 14 | LUGAL i-kar-ra-bi | |
| r | ||
| 1 | um-ma ša₂ hu-ub-tu | |
| 2 | u₃ šal-lat ša₂ TIN.TIR{ki} | |
| 3 | u₂-tir-ri | |
| 4 | u₃ ul-tu UD.KIB.NUN{ki} | |
| 5 | a-<$di$> KA₂ {id₂}mar-rat | |
| 6 | {lu₂}ra-ša₂-ni ša₂ {kur}kal-du | |
| 7 | LUGAL i-kar-ra-bu | |
| 8 | um-ma ša₂ TIN.TIR{ki} | |
| 9 | u₂-še-ši-bi | |
| 10 | KUR.KUR gab-bi | |
| 11 | a-na pa-ni | |
| 12 | LUGAL be-li₂-ia | |
| 13 | ha-mu-u₂ | |
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
- 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) · ORACC project editions, https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ ; cite the individual project (see texts.extra_json.project)
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