ABL 0085 (P334034)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0085 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334034 |
| 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/saa16 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:4] o 1o 1–o 44 | To the king, my lord: your servant Bel-iqiša. May Nabû and Marduk bless the king, my lord. |
| Obverse [4:7] o 55–o 77 | The servants of my lord's household who(se status) the king, my lord, has determined (as of) today: |
| Obverse [7:17] o 88– | Tabalayu son of Bel-Harran-ahu-uṣur, whom the king, my lord, promoted to the rank of cohort commander; Nabû-sagib, whom the king, my lord, promoted to the rank of permanent 'third man'; (and) Atamar-Marduk, whom the king, my lord, promoted to the rank of bodyguard — |
| Reverse [3:9] r 44–r 99 | these three men are drunkards. When they are drunk, none of them can turn his iron sword away from his colleague. |
| Reverse [9:16] r 1010– | I have written to the king, my lord, (about) a matter that I know. The king, my lord, may do as he deems best. |
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}EN—BA-ša₂ | |
| 3 | {d}PA {d}AMAR.UTU a-na MAN EN-ia₂ | |
| 4 | lik-ru-bu | |
| 5 | ARAD-MEŠ ša E₂—EN-MEŠ-ia E₂—EN-MEŠ-ia | |
| 6 | ša LUGAL be-li₂ UD-mu | |
| 7 | an-ni-u₂ u₂-par-ri-su-u-ni | |
| 8 | {1}tab-URU-a.a DUMU {1}EN—KASKAL—PAB—PAB | |
| 9 | ša a-na {lu₂v}GAL—ki-ṣir-u-tu₂ {lu₂v}GAL—ki-ṣir-u-tu₂ | |
| 10 | LUGAL be-li₂ u₂-še-lu-u-ni | |
| 11 | {1}{d}PA—sa-kib ša TA@v {lu₂v}03.U₅-MEŠ | |
| 12 | ka-a.<a>-ma-nu-te | |
| 13 | LUGAL be-li₂ u₂-še-lu-u-ni | |
| r | ||
| 1 | {1}IGI.LAL—{d}ŠU₂ | |
| 2 | ša TA@v {lu₂v}qur-ZAG-MEŠ | |
| 3 | LUGAL BE u₂-še-lu-u-ni | |
| 4 | 03 an-nu-te ERIM-MEŠ | |
| 5 | ša₂-ak-ra-nu-tu₂ šu₂-nu | |
| 6 | ki-ma i-šak-ki-ru | |
| 7 | LU₂ GIR₂ AN.BAR | |
| 8 | TA@v pa-an mi₃-hi-ri-šu | |
| 9 | la u₂-sa-ah-<ha>-ra | |
| 10 | a-bu-tu₂ ša u₂-du-u₂-ni | |
| 11 | a-na LUGAL be-li₂-ia | |
| 12 | as-sa-pa-ra | |
| r.e. | ||
| 13 | LUGAL be-li₂ | |
| 14 | ki-i ša i-la-u-ni | |
| e. | ||
| 1 | le-pu-uš | |
Sources & licences
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