ABL 0126 (P334074)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0126 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334074 |
| 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/saa15 · 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] Mannu-ki-Ninua. [Good heal]th to the king, my lord! The land of the king my lord i[s well]. |
| Obverse [4:9] o 55–o 99 | [Concerning what the king], my lord, wrote to me: "[Go] to Media [wi]th the magnates!" — I went with them. [The god]s of the king provided peace, and we returned [s]afely. |
| Obverse [9:15] o 1010–o 1515 | I am (now) here in Kar-Šarrukin. I am building the grand hall with whatever bricks have been glazed, and we are cultivating the arable fields and doing our work. The king, my lord, can be glad. |
| Obverse [15:22] o 1616– | Also, on the first day the magnates fetched from outside whatever bricks were left there, and delivered them to me. |
| Reverse [5:8] r 66–r 88 | The outer city-wall is finished and plastered. They [came c]lose to it and [pla]stered it from boats. |
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-ia₂ | |
| 2 | [ARAD-ka {1}man-nu—ki—{uru}NINA | |
| 3 | [lu-u DI]-mu a-na LUGAL be-li₂-ia₂ | |
| 4 | [DI-mu a]-na KUR ša LUGAL be-li₂-a | |
| 5 | [ša LUGAL] EN iš-pur-an-ni | |
| 6 | [ma-a] ⸢TA@v\m⸣ {lu₂v}GAL-MEŠ a-na {kur}ma-ta-a.a | |
| 7 | [a-lik] at-ta-lak is-si-šu₂-nu | |
| 8 | [DINGIR]-⸢MEŠ⸣ ša LUGAL DI-mu i-sa-ak-nu | |
| 9 | [ina] ⸢ša₂⸣-li-im-te ni-is-su-hu-ra | |
| 10 | ⸢a⸣-na-ku an-na-ka ina {uru}kar—{1}MAN—GIN | |
| 11 | SIG₄-HI.A-MEŠ am—mar šah-⸢ṭa-tu⸣-u-ni | |
| 12 | E₂ dan-nu a-ra-ṣi-pi | |
| 13 | u₃ {še}NUMUN-MEŠ ne₂-ra-aš₂ | |
| 14 | dul₆-li-in-ni ne₂-pa-aš₂ | |
| 15 | ŠA₃-bu\t ša LUGAL EN-a | |
| 16 | lu DUG₃.GA u₃ SIG₄-HI.A-MEŠ | |
| r | ||
| 1 | am—mar ša ina qa-an-ni | |
| 2 | re-ha-tu-u-ni | |
| 3 | 01-en UD-mu {lu₂v}GAL-MEŠ | |
| 4 | TA@v\m ŠA₃ in-ta-at-hu | |
| 5 | it-ta-an-u-⸢ni⸣ | |
| 6 | BAD₃ ša\m gi-da-a-⸢ni⸣ | |
| 7 | ⸢ga⸣-am-mu-ur se-e-⸢re⸣ | |
| 8 | [iq]-⸢ṭar⸣-bu-u-ni TA@v\m MA₂-MEŠ-ni | |
| 9 | [i]-⸢se⸣-e-ru\d | |
Sources & licences
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