ABL 0058 (P334009)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0058 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334009 |
| 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 [0:7] o 1o 1–o 77 | To the king, my lord: your servant Nabû-[nadin]-šumi. Good health to the king, m[y lord]! May Nabû and Marduk very gr[eatly bless the king, my lord]! |
| Reverse [0:9] r 1r 1–r 99 | [I]f he has become troublesome, may that gracious face [of the king], my lord, tur[n] away from him! And inasmuch as Ištar of N[ineveh] and Ištar of Arbela have said: "We shall root out from Assyria those who are not loyal to the king, our lord!" he should really be banished from Assyria! |
| Reverse [9:11] r 1010–r 1111 | May Aššur, Šamaš, Bel and Nabû feel concern over the health of 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 EN-ia | |
| 2 | ARAD-ka {1}{d}AG—[SUM]—MU | |
| 3 | lu DI-mu a-na ⸢LUGAL⸣ [EN]-⸢ia⸣ | |
| 4 | {d}PA {d}AMAR.UTU a-na [LUGAL EN-ia] | |
| 5 | a—dan-niš a—⸢dan⸣-[niš lik-ru-bu] | |
| 6 | ⸢an x tu₂ x⸣+[x x x x x x] | |
| 7 | ⸢x x x x⸣ [x x x x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1 | ⸢ki-ma⸣ in-ta-ra-⸢aṣ⸣ | |
| 2 | pa-ni am-mu-te ⸢SIG₅⸣-MEŠ [ša LUGAL] | |
| 3 | EN-ia TA@v pa-ni-šu₂ li-is-[hu-ru] | |
| 4 | u₃ ki-i ša {d}15 ša₂ ⸢NINA⸣{[ki]} | |
| 5 | {d}15 ša₂ arba-il₃ iq-ba-⸢an⸣-[ni] | |
| 6 | ma-a ša₂ TA@v LUGAL be-li-⸢ni⸣ | |
| 7 | la ke-nu-ni ma-a TA@v KUR—aš-šur{[ki]} | |
| 8 | ⸢ni⸣-na-sah-šu₂ ⸢ket-tu-ma⸣ | |
| 9 | TA@v KUR—aš-šur{ki} li-in-ni-⸢sih₂⸣ | |
| 10 | aš-šur {d}UTU {d}EN {d}AG | |
| 11 | DI-mu ša₂ LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 12 | ⸢liš⸣-ʾu-lu | |
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
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