ABL 0042 (P333994)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0042 |
|---|---|
| ID | P333994 |
| 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 Akkullanu. Good health to the king, my lord! May Nabû and Marduk bless the king, my lord! |
| Obverse [5:16] o 66–o 1616 | Yesterday, on the 3rd, Aššur and Mullissu went out in peace and re-entered (Ešarra) safely; all the gods who went out with Aššur took up their residence in peace. The king, my lord, can be happy. [May] Ašš[ur and Mullissu keep the king, my lord, alive] for a hundred years. |
| Obverse [16:36] o 1717– | The king, my lord, did not question (the officials) who, in [...] and in the [... te]mple, fill the vats [in fr]ont of the king's table, (but) are now on strike, about whom I wrote to the king, my lord. Now, in the month Tishri (VII), they have filled neither the libation wine nor the vats in front of Aššur; neither the wine master, nor his deputy, nor his secretary! They are on strike hand in hand (lit. foot to foot). The king, my lord, should know (this). |
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}ak-kul-la-nu | |
| 3 | lu-u šul-mu a-na LUGAL | |
| 4 | be-li₂-ia₂ {d}AG u {d}AMAR.UTU | |
| 5 | a-na LUGAL EN-ia₂ lik-ru-bu | |
| 6 | i—ti-ma-li i—ti-ma-li UD 03-KAM₂ | |
| 7 | aš-šur {d}NIN.LIL₂ ina šul-me | |
| 8 | it-tu-ṣi-u₂ ina ša₂-li-in-ti | |
| 9 | e-tar-bu-u-ni | |
| 10 | DINGIR-MEŠ-ni gab-bu am—mar | |
| 11 | TA@v aš-šur u₂-ṣu-u-ni | |
| 12 | ina šul-me ina šub-ti-šu₂-nu | |
| 13 | ⸢it⸣-[tu]-uš-bu | |
| 14 | ŠA₃-[bu ša] LUGAL EN-ia₂ lu [DUG₃].⸢GA⸣ | |
| 15 | aš-⸢šur⸣ {[d}NIN.LIL₂] 01-me MU.AN.NA-MEŠ | |
| 16 | a-na [LUGAL EN-ia₂ lu-bal-li-ṭu] | |
| 17 | ⸢ša⸣ ina ⸢x⸣+[x x x] | |
| b.e. | ||
| 18 | ⸢ša⸣ ina ⸢E₂⸣ [x x]+⸢x⸣ | |
| 19 | {dug}ha-ri-a-te | |
| 20 | [ina] ⸢IGI⸣ {giš}BANŠUR LUGAL | |
| r | ||
| 1 | u₂-ma-al-lu-u-ni | |
| 2 | u₂-ma-a ba-aṭ-lu | |
| 3 | iš-ka-nu-u-ni | |
| 4 | ša a-na LUGAL be-li₂-ia₂ | |
| 5 | aš₂-pu-ra-an-ni | |
| 6 | LUGAL be-li₂ la-a iš-al | |
| 7 | u₂-ma-a ša {iti}DU₆ | |
| 8 | la-a GEŠTIN ṣu-ra-ri | |
| 9 | la-a {dug}ha-ri-a-te | |
| 10 | ina IGI aš-šur u₂-ma-al-li-u₂ | |
| 11 | la-a {lu₂}GAL—GEŠTIN {lu₂}GAL—GEŠTIN la-a | |
| 12 | {lu₂}02-u-šu₂ la-a {lu₂}DUB.SAR-šu₂ | |
| 13 | GIR₃.2 ana GIR₃.2 ba-aṭ-lu | |
| 14 | i-ša₂-ku-nu | |
| 15 | LUGAL be-li₂ lu-u-di | |
Sources & licences
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