ABL 0009 (P333961)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0009 |
|---|---|
| ID | P333961 |
| 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, my lord: your servant Adad-šumu-uṣur. Good health to the king, my lord! May Nabû and Marduk bless the king, my lord! |
| Obverse [5:10] o 66–o 1010 | The charge of the rear palace is doing well; he has lifted his head. May the great gods whom the king, my lord, invoked let the king, my lord, see him prosper! |
| Obverse [10:20] o 1111– | From these words and these blessings which the king, my lord, sent and with which he blessed his dog, his servant, and the old man of his house — |
| Reverse [0:11] r 1r 1–r 1111 | (blessings) that will bring mighty countries to the king, my lord, and (make them) pray day and night, morning and evening, to the great gods of heaven and earth, the gods of Assyria, the gods of Babylonia, and of all the countries, for the life of the king, my lord, and the sons of the king, (blessings) that will give thousands and thousands of years of happiness and health to the king, my lord, — |
| Reverse [11:19] r 1212– | now I know that the wisdom of Ea and Asalluhi and the activity of his servant will succeed, since the king, my lord, has sent t[hese] blessings to his servant. |
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}{d}IM—MU—PAB | |
| 3 | lu-u DI-mu ana LUGAL be-li₂-ia₂ | |
| 4 | {d}PA u {d}AMAR.UTU ana LUGAL be-li₂-ia₂ | |
| 5 | lik-ru-bu DI-mu a-na | |
| 6 | pi-qit-ti ša₂ E₂—ku-tal-li E₂—ku-tal-li | |
| 7 | re-ši-šu₂ in-ta-at-ha | |
| 8 | DINGIR-MEŠ GAL-MEŠ ša₂ LUGAL be-li₂ | |
| 9 | MU-šu₂-nu is-qur-u-ni ne₂-ma-al-šu₂ | |
| 10 | a-na LUGAL be-li₂-ia | |
| 11 | lu-kal-li-mu TA@v da-ba-bi | |
| 12 | an-ni-i u ik-ri-bi | |
| 13 | an-nu-ti ša LUGAL be-li₂ | |
| 14 | a-na UR.KU-šu₂ ana {lu₂}ARAD-šu₂ | |
| 15 | u₃ par-šu-me | |
| b.e. | ||
| 16 | ša₂ E₂-šu₂ | |
| 17 | iš-pur-u-ni | |
| 18 | u₃ ik-ru-bu-u-ni | |
| r | ||
| 1 | ša KUR.KUR dan-na-ti | |
| 2 | a-na LUGAL be-li₂-ia₂ ana qar-ru-bi | |
| 3 | u₃ DINGIR-MEŠ GAL-MEŠ ša₂ AN-e | |
| 4 | KI.TIM DINGIR-MEŠ KUR—{d}aš-šur{ki} | |
| 5 | DINGIR-MEŠ KUR—URI{ki} u KUR.KUR DU₃-šu₂-nu | |
| 6 | a-na TI ZI-MEŠ ša₂ LUGAL be-li₂-ia₂ | |
| 7 | u₃ DUMU-MEŠ—LUGAL DUMU-MEŠ—LUGAL mu-šu₂ | |
| 8 | kal UD-me ši-a-ri nu-bat-te | |
| 9 | a-na sa-ru-ri ša₂ 01-lim 01-lim | |
| 10 | MU.AN.NA-MEŠ ša₂ ṭu-ub ŠA₃-bi | |
| 11 | ṭu-ub UZU ana LUGAL be-li₂-ia₂ | |
| 12 | a-na ta-da-ni u₂-ma-a | |
| 13 | u₂-da ki-i ne₂-me-qe | |
| 14 | ša {d}E₂.A u {d}ASAR.LU₂.HI | |
| 15 | u ši-pir ŠU.2 ša₂ ARAD-šu₂ | |
| r.e. | ||
| 16 | i-šal-li-mu-u-⸢ni⸣ | |
| 17 | ša₂ ik-ri-bi ⸢an⸣-[nu-ti] | |
| 18 | LUGAL be-li₂ ana ARAD-šu₂ | |
| 19 | iš-pur-u-ni | |
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