ABL 0080 (P334029)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0080 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334029 |
| 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, my lord: your servant Nabû-ahhe-eriba. Good health to the king, my lord! May Nabû and Marduk bless the king, my lord. |
| Obverse [6:22] o 77– | As to what the king, my lord, wrote to me: "From now on you will stay in my entourage; if there is something you want to say, write me" — how would I not stand in front of the king, my lord? To whom else would we be devoted? |
| Reverse [2:19] r 33– | The king, my lord, went away until the fourth month; how could I not be shaken up (when) I cannot look at the king, my lord; why should I not embrace (the ground) where the tracks of the chariot of the king, my lord, pass by, (longing) to look at the [ki]ng, my lord, again? May [Bel] and Nabû lengthen [the days 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}PA—PAB-MEŠ—SU | |
| 3 | lu DI-mu a-na LUGAL | |
| 4 | EN-ia | |
| 5 | {d}PA {d}AMAR.UTU a-na LUGAL | |
| 6 | EN-ia lik-ru-bu | |
| 7 | ša LUGAL be-li₂ | |
| 8 | iš-pur-an-ni | |
| 9 | ma-a ina ha-ra-am-me | |
| 10 | ina pu-tu₂-u₂-a | |
| 11 | ta-za-az ma-a šum-ma | |
| 12 | a-bat-ka i-ba-aš₂-ši | |
| 13 | ma-a šup-ra | |
| 14 | a-ke-e ina pu-ut | |
| 15 | LUGAL EN-ia | |
| b.e. | ||
| 16 | la az-za-az | |
| 17 | TA@v man-ni-im-ma | |
| 18 | ah—hur | |
| r | ||
| 1 | e-ni-in-ni | |
| 2 | ša₂-ak-na | |
| 3 | a-na 04 ITI | |
| 3a | ra-ab-bi ur-hi | |
| 4 | LUGAL be-li₂ it-tu-ṣi-a | |
| 5 | a-ke—e | |
| 6 | la ša₂-at-ru-ka-ku | |
| 7 | LUGAL be-li₂ la a-da-gal | |
| 8 | a-ta-a be₂-et | |
| 9 | hi-ir-ṣi mu-gi-ir-ri | |
| 10 | ša LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 11 | et-ti-iq-u-ni | |
| 12 | a-ta-a la u₂-ha-aṣ-ṣa-an | |
| 13 | tu-ra a-na da-ga-li | |
| r.e. | ||
| 14 | [ša] ⸢LUGAL⸣ EN-ia | |
| 15 | {[d}EN] {d}PA | |
| 16 | [UD-MEŠ ša] LUGAL | |
| e. | ||
| 1 | EN-ia lu-ur-ri-ku | |
Sources & licences
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- 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) · ORACC project editions, https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ ; cite the individual project (see texts.extra_json.project)
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