ABL 0149 (P334095)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0149 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334095 |
| 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 [0:6] o 1o 1–o 66 | To the king, my lord: your servant, Adad-ahu-iddina. Good health to the king, my lord! May Aššur, Mullissu, Nabû and Marduk bless the king, my lord! |
| Obverse [6:12] o 77– | The prophetess Mullissu-abu-uṣri, who took the king's clothes to Babylonia, has prophesied [in the] temple: "[The t]hrone from the te[mp]le [...] |
| Reverse [5:8] r 66–r 88 | [L]et the [t]hrone go! I shall overcome my king's enemies with it." |
| Reverse [8:11] r 99–r 1111 | I said: "I will not turn over the throne without (the permission of) the king, my lord." |
| Reverse [11:13] r 1212–r 1313 | Whatever the king, my lord, commands, we will act accordingly. |
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}IM—PAB—AŠ | |
| 3 | lu-u šul-mu a-na LUGAL EN-ia₂ | |
| 4 | aš-šur {d}NIN.LIL₂ {d}PA {d}AMAR.UTU | |
| 5 | a-na LUGAL be-li₂-ia | |
| 6 | lik-ru-bu | |
| 7 | {⸢mi₂⸣}{d}NIN.LIL₂—AD—PAB ra-gi-in-tu₂ | |
| 8 | ša ku-zip-pi ša LUGAL | |
| 9 | a-na KUR—URI{ki} tu-bil-u-ni | |
| 10 | [ina] ⸢E₂⸣—DINGIR ⸢E₂⸣—DINGIR ta-ar-tu-⸢gu-um⸣ | |
| 11 | [ma-a {giš]}GU.ZA TA@v E₂—⸢DINGIR⸣ E₂—⸢DINGIR⸣ | |
| r | ||
| 1 | [x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ | |
| 2 | [x x x x x]-ri | |
| 3 | [x x x x]-ru | |
| 4 | [x x x x] ⸢ši⸣-i | |
| 5 | [x x x] ⸢x x x⸣ | |
| 6 | {⸢giš}GU.ZA lu⸣ ta-lik | |
| 7 | ma-a {lu₂}KUR₂-MEŠ | |
| 8 | ša LUGAL-ia ina ŠA₃-bi | |
| 9 | a-ka-šad mu-uk | |
| 10 | ša la LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 11 | {giš}GU.ZA la a-dan | |
| 12 | ki-i ša LUGAL be-li₂ | |
| 13 | i-qa-bu-u-ni | |
| 14 | ina pi-it-te ne₂-pu-uš | |
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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