ABL 0157 (P334103)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0157 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334103 |
| 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 [0:3] o 1o 1–o 33 | To the king, my lord: your servant Issar-duri. [Good] health to the king, my lord! |
| Obverse [3:16] o 44–o 1616 | [Concerni]ng Nabû-šumu-iddina and Nabû-eriba, the physicians [about whom I sp]oke to the king, my lord, now then I am sending them [care of] my messenger to the [kin]g my lord's presence. Let them enter the king my lord's [pres]ence, and let the king my lord speak with them. Truly, I have not disclosed nor told them where the king, my lord, is sending them. |
| Obverse [16:29] o 1717– | Šamaš-belu-uṣur wrote to me from Der: "Should we really not put any inscriptions in the walls of the temple?" I am now writing to the king, my lord: let one inscription be written and sent to me (as a model), and let them write the rest according to it and put them in the walls of the temple. |
| Reverse [6:10] r 77–r 1010 | It has rained abundantly and the crops are fine. The king, my lord, can be glad. |
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\d be-li₂-ia₂ | |
| 2 | ⸢ARAD⸣-ka {1}{d}15—du-ri | |
| 3 | [lu] DI-mu a-na LUGAL\d EN-ia₂ | |
| 4 | [ina] ⸢UGU⸣ {1}{d}PA—MU—AŠ | |
| 5 | {1}{d]}PA—SU\t {lu₂v}A.ZU\t-MEŠ | |
| 6 | [ša] a-na LUGAL\d be-li₂-ia₂ | |
| 7 | [aq]-bu-u-ni an-nu-rig | |
| 8 | [ina ŠU.2 {lu₂v}A—KIN-e-a {lu₂v}A—KIN-e-a ina pa-an | |
| 9 | ⸢LUGAL⸣ be-li₂-ia₂ a-sap-ra-šu₂-nu | |
| 10 | [ina pa]-⸢an⸣ LUGAL\d be-li₂-ia₂ | |
| 11 | le-ru-bu LUGAL\d be-li₂ | |
| 12 | i-si-šu₂-nu lid-bu-bu\p | |
| 13 | ke-e-tu\tp a-na-ku | |
| 14 | la u₂\pm-bar-ri | |
| 15 | la a-qa-ba\t-aš₂-šu₂-nu | |
| 16 | be₂-et LUGAL\d be-li₂ i-šap-par-ša₂-nu-ni | |
| 17 | {1}{d}UTU—EN—PAB | |
| 18 | TA@v {uru}de-ri i-sap-ra | |
| 19 | ma-a muš-ša₂-ra-ni-i | |
| 20 | la-aš₂-šu₂ ina ŠA₃ E₂.SIG₄-MEŠ | |
| b.e. | ||
| 21 | ša E₂—DINGIR E₂—DINGIR la niš-kun | |
| r | ||
| 1 | u₂\m-ma-a a-na LUGAL\d be-li₂-ia₂ | |
| 2 | a-sap-ra 01-en muš-ša₂-ru-u | |
| 3 | liš-ṭu-ru lu-še-bil₂-u-ni | |
| 4 | ina pi-it-ti re-hu-ti | |
| 5 | liš-ṭu-ru ina ŠA₃-bi E₂.SIG₄-MEŠ | |
| 6 | ša\d E₂—DINGIR E₂—DINGIR liš-ku-nu | |
| 7 | A.AN-MEŠ\m ma\p-aʾ\p-da | |
| 8 | a—dan-niš i-ta-lak | |
| 9 | BURU₁₄-MEŠ de-e-qe\m | |
| 10 | ŠA₃\p-bi ša\d LUGAL be-li₂-ia₂ | |
| 11 | lu-u DUG₃\p.GA | |
Sources & licences
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