ABL 0012 (P333964)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0012 |
|---|---|
| ID | P333964 |
| 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 [5:14] o 66–o 1414 | The charge of the 'Lady of Cults' is doing very well; the king, my lord, can be happy. May the great gods of heaven and earth let the king, my lord, see him prosper! |
| Reverse [0:1] r 1'1'–r 1'1' | for his sons [...]; |
| Reverse [1:7] r 2'2'–r 7'7' | the incantation "Iš[tar, lady of war], who makes man and wom[an] submit in battle." — These 3 tablets I have sealed and dispatched to the king, my lord. |
| Reverse [7:14] r 8'8'–r 14'14' | A maid of the king has written to me from the palace: "Urad-Gula has said: 'Get me the girl Ṣuhru, I will dedicate (her) to the palace.' Send (word) whether he should bring (her) to you or to 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 be-li₂-ia₂ | |
| 2 | ARAD-ka {1}{d}IM—MU—PAB | |
| 3 | lu DI-mu a-na LUGAL be-li₂-ia₂ | |
| 4 | {d}AG {d}AMAR.UTU a-na LUGAL | |
| 5 | be-li₂-ia lik-ru-bu | |
| 6 | a-na {lu₂}pi-qit-ti | |
| 7 | ša {d}GAŠAN—GARZA šul-mu | |
| 8 | a—dan-niš lib-bu ša₂ LUGAL | |
| 9 | be-li₂-ia lu-u ṭa-a-ba | |
| 10 | DINGIR-MEŠ GAL-MEŠ ša₂ AN-e KI.TIM | |
| 11 | ne₂-e-ma-al-šu | |
| 12 | a-na LUGAL be-li₂-ia | |
| 13 | [lu]-kal-li-⸢mu⸣ | |
| 14 | [x x]+⸢x⸣+[x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | ⸢a⸣-na DUMU-MEŠ-⸢šu₂⸣ [x x x] | |
| 2' | a-ṣu-u₂ EN₂ {⸢d}15 [be-lit MURUB₄ u ME₃] | |
| 3' | ša₂ zi-ka-ru u si-⸢in⸣-[niš] | |
| 4' | ina MURUB₄ tu-šak-ma-su-nu-te | |
| 5' | 03 ṭup-pa-a-ni ak-ta-nak | |
| 6' | a-na LUGAL be-li₂-ia | |
| 7' | us-se-bi-la | |
| 8' | GEME₂ ša₂ LUGAL TA@v E₂ ta-sap-ra | |
| 9' | ma-a {1}ARAD—{d}gu-la iq-ṭi-bi | |
| 10' | ma-a {mi₂}ṣu-uh-ru | |
| 11' | qa-li-su bi-la-a-ni | |
| 12' | a-na E₂.GAL lu-še-e-li | |
| 13' | ma-a šum-ma a-na ka-⸢a⸣-[ša₂] | |
| 14' | šum-ma an-ni-ia-ši an-ni-ia-ši lu-⸢bil⸣ | |
| 15' | ma-a šu-up-ru ⸢x⸣+[x] | |
Sources & licences
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