ABL 0115 (P334063)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0115 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334063 |
| 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, Sin, Šamaš, Marduk, 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 [13:22] o 1414– | On the 29th of [...], an apprentice of Adad-[...] lost the key to the lock of the temple of [...] and the temple of [...] in the tem[ple of ...]. |
| Reverse [1:3] r 22–r 33 | It is being rumor[ed that ...]. |
| Reverse [3:4] r 44–r 44 | Let the king, [my] l[ord ......]. |
| Reverse [4:9] r 55–r 99 | [Could we possibly] act [without] the king, [my lord]? We will act (only) when the king, my lord, says so. |
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}ARAD—{d}PA | |
| 3 | lu-u šul-mu a-na LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 4 | aš-šur {d}30 {d}UTU {d}AMAR.UTU | |
| 5 | {d}zar-pa-ni-tum {d}AG | |
| 6 | {d}taš-me-tum {d}15 ša {uru}NINA | |
| 7 | {d}15 ša {uru}arba-il₃ | |
| 8 | DINGIR-MEŠ an-nu-u-te GAL-MEŠ | |
| 9 | ra-i-mu-te šar-ru-ti-ka | |
| 10 | 01 me MU.AN.NA-MEŠ a-na LUGAL EN-ia₂ | |
| 11 | lu-bal-li-ṭu ši-bu-tu₂ lit-tu-tu | |
| 12 | a-na LUGAL be-li-[ia] | |
| 13 | lu-šab-bi-ʾu-[u₂] | |
| 14 | up-pu ša si-[ku-ri] | |
| 15 | ša E₂—{d}[x x] | |
| 16 | ⸢ša⸣ E₂—{d}[x x] | |
| b.e. | ||
| 17 | ŠA₃-bi ⸢E₂⸣ [x x] | |
| 18 | UD 29-KAM₂ [x x x] | |
| 19 | {⸢lu₂⸣}TUR ša {1}{d}⸢IM⸣—[x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1 | ⸢uh⸣-ta-li-[iq] | |
| 2 | u₂-lah₃-hu-[x] | |
| 3 | [x x x x x] | |
| 4 | LUGAL ⸢be⸣-[li₂] ⸢x⸣+[x x] | |
| 5 | [x x x x] bi | |
| 6 | [x x ša la] ⸢LUGAL⸣-e | |
| 7 | [x x x ne₂]-pa-aš₂ | |
| 8 | UGU [ša LUGAL] be-li₂ | |
| 9 | i-qa-bu-u-ni | |
| 10 | ne₂-pu-šu | |
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
- 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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