ABL 0032 (P333984)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0032 |
|---|---|
| ID | P333984 |
| 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 [0:6] o 1o 1–o 66 | To the king, our lord: your servants Issar-šumu-ereš, Adad-šumu-uṣur and Marduk-šakin-šumi. Good health to the king, our lord! May Nabû and Marduk bless the king, our lord! |
| Obverse [6:8] o 77–o 88 | On the 18th day the god Bel, together with his divine escort, was in the city of Labbanat. Everything was just fine. |
| Obverse [8:29] o 99– | Bel-eriba and Nergal-šallim, servants of the household of the crown prince, under the jurisdiction of the governor of the city of Šamaš-naṣir, were attending, in Labbanat, to a strong horse harnessed in trappings of the land of Kush for the (ceremonial) entrance into the city (of Babylon). Nergal-šallim took hold of the feet of Bel-eriba and helped him to mount the horse. They saw (this), seized and questioned him. He said: "The gods Bel and Zar[panitu] have sent word to me: 'Babylon — straight — the loot of Kurigalzu.'" |
| Reverse [11:17] r 1212– | [NN], the 'third man' [of ...] claims as follows: "I know! — Those [robb]ers are waiting [in Du]r-Kurigalzu." |
| Right [1:2] r.e. 1717–r.e. 1717 | What is it that the king, our lord, or[ders]? |
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-li-ni | |
| 2 | ARAD-MEŠ-ka {1}15—MU—KAM-eš | |
| 3 | {1}{d}IM—MU—PAB {1}{d}AMAR.UTU—GAR—MU | |
| 4 | lu šul-mu a-na LUGAL EN-ni | |
| 5 | {d}AG u {d}AMAR.UTU | |
| 6 | a-na LUGAL EN-ni lik-ru-bu | |
| 7 | UD 18-KAM₂ {d}EN a-di DINGIR-MEŠ | |
| 8 | ša is-se-šu₂ ina {uru}la-ab-ba-na-at | |
| 9 | šul-mu a—dan-niš {1}EN—eri-ba | |
| 10 | {1}{d}U.GUR—šal-lim {lu₂}ARAD-MEŠ | |
| 11 | ša E₂ DUMU—MAN DUMU—MAN ša ŠU.2 {lu₂}EN.NAM | |
| 12 | ša {uru}{d}ša₂-maš—PAB-ir | |
| 13 | ina UGU {anše}KUR.RA dan-ni | |
| 14 | ša tal-lul-tu₂ ša {kur}ku-u-si | |
| 15 | tal-lul-u-ni a-na e-rab URU | |
| 16 | a-na {uru}la-ab-ba-na-at | |
| 17 | [i]-za-zu-u-ni | |
| r | ||
| 1 | {1}U.GUR—šal-lim GIR₃.2 | |
| 2 | ša {1}EN—eri-ba iṣ-ṣa-bat | |
| 3 | ina UGU {anše}KUR.RA | |
| 4 | us-sa-ar-kib-šu₂ | |
| 5 | e-ta-am-ru iṣ-ṣab-tu-neš-šu₂ | |
| 6 | us-sa-an-ni-qu-šu₂ | |
| 7 | ma-a {d}EN {d}zar-[pa-ni-tum] | |
| 8 | is-sa-ap-ru-u-ni | |
| 9 | ma-a KA₂.DINGIR.RA{ki} | |
| 10 | ina UGU aš₂-li | |
| 11 | ⸢hub⸣-tu ša {1}ku-ri-gal-zi | |
| 12 | {1}⸢x⸣+[x x]+⸢x⸣ {lu₂}03.U₅ | |
| 13 | [ša x x].GAL i-da-bu-ub | |
| 14 | [ma-a a]-⸢na⸣-ku u₂-da | |
| 15 | [par-ri]-⸢ṣu⸣-ti šu-nu | |
| r.e. | ||
| 16 | [ina {uru]}⸢BAD₃⸣—ku-ri-gal-zi | |
| 17 | [u₂]-qa-u₂ mi-i-nu | |
| 18 | ⸢ša⸣ LUGAL i-qab-[bu-u-ni] | |
Sources & licences
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