ABL 0114 (P334062)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0114 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334062 |
| 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/saa13 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:13] o 1o 1–o 1313 | To the king, my lord: your servant, Urdu-Nabû. Good health to the king, my lord. May Aššur, Šamaš, Bel, Zarpanitu, Nabû, Tašmetu, Ištar of Nineveh, and Ištar of Arbela — these great gods who love your kingship — allow the king, my lord, to live 100 years. May they grant the king, my lord, the satisfaction of old age, extreme old age. |
| Obverse [13:33] o 1414– | The gold which the treasurer, the palace scribe, and I weighed in the month of Tishri (VII) — 3 talents of refined gold and 4 talents of unrefined gold — was deposited in the storeroom of the director of the royal storehouse. He sealed it and did not give any for the royal statues or the statue of the queen mother. The king, my lord, should issue an order to the treasurer and to the palace scribe to make the gold available. Once the beginning of the month is favorable, they should give (the gold) to the craftsmen so that they can do their work. |
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}ARAD—{d}PA | |
| 3 | lu-u DI-mu a-na LUGAL EN-ia₂ | |
| 4 | aš-šur {d}UTU {d}EN {d}zar-pa-ni-tum | |
| 5 | {d}PA {d}taš-me-tum | |
| 6 | {d}15 ša NINA{ki} | |
| 7 | {d}15 ša {uru}arba-il₃ | |
| 8 | DINGIR-MEŠ an-nu-ti GAL-MEŠ | |
| 9 | ra-i-mu-ti šar-ru-ti-ka | |
| 10 | 01 me MU.AN.NA-MEŠ a-na LUGAL [EN-ia₂] | |
| 11 | lu-bal-li-ṭu | |
| 12 | ši-bu-tu lit-tu-tu | |
| 13 | a-na LUGAL EN-ia₂ lu-šab-bi-u₂ | |
| 14 | KUG.GI ša₂ ina {iti}DUL | |
| 15 | {lu₂}IGI.DUB {lu₂}A.BA—E₂.GAL {lu₂}A.BA—E₂.GAL | |
| 16 | u₃ ana-ku is-si-šu₂-nu | |
| 17 | ni-hi-ṭu-u₂-ni | |
| b.e. | ||
| 18 | 03 GU₂.UN KUG.GI sak-ru | |
| 19 | 04 GU₂.UN la-a sak-ru | |
| 20 | ina E₂—ŠU.2 E₂—ŠU.2 | |
| r | ||
| 1 | ša {lu₂}GAL—da-ni-bat {lu₂}GAL—da-ni-bat | |
| 2 | is-sak-na ik-ta-nak | |
| 3 | KUG.GI a-na ṣa-lam—LUGAL-a-ni ṣa-lam—LUGAL-a-ni | |
| 4 | a-na ṣa-lam ša AMA—MAN AMA—MAN | |
| 5 | la-a id-din | |
| 6 | LUGAL be-li₂ a-na {lu₂}IGI.DUB | |
| 7 | a-na {lu₂}A.BA—E₂.GAL {lu₂}A.BA—E₂.GAL | |
| 8 | ṭe₃-e-mu liš-kun | |
| 9 | KUG.GI li-ip-ti-u₂ | |
| 10 | SAG ITI ṭa-bu-u-ni | |
| 11 | a-na um-ma-a-ni lid-di-nu | |
| 12 | dul-lu le-pu-šu₂ | |
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