ABL 0177 (P334122)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0177 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334122 |
| 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 [0:10] o 1o 1–o 1010 | To the king, my lord: your servant, Iddin-Ea. Good health to the king, my lord. May Aššur, Ištar, Nabû, and Marduk bless the king, my lord. May they grant the king, my lord, the satisfaction of old age, extreme old age. May they firmly establish the throne of the king, my lord, forever. |
| Obverse [10:15] o 1111–o 1515 | [The foundat]ion of the throne of the ki[ng, my lord], is Ištar of [GN]. [The king], my [l]ord, k[nows it]. |
| Reverse [1:5] r 2'2'–r 5'5' | [...] [Tomorrow or the d]ay after, the king, my lord, will hear. I will certainly die because of this if (the king) says: "Why didn't you inform me?" |
| Reverse [5:12] r 6'6'–r 12'12' | Urdu-Nabû, the priest, has written a field, a house and people, sons of temple votaries, in a sealed document and has thus made them his own. Therefore, I am left with no control over them. I have now written to the king, my lord, that the king, my lord, may know (about it). |
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}id-din—ia | |
| 3 | lu-u šul-mu a-na LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 4 | aš-šur {d}15 {d}AG {d}AMAR.UTU | |
| 5 | a-na LUGAL EN-ia lik-ru-bu | |
| 6 | ši-bu-tu₂ lit-tu-tu a-na LUGAL | |
| 7 | EN-ia lu-šab-bi-iu-u | |
| 8 | {giš}GU.ZA ša LUGAL EN-a | |
| 9 | a-na da-ra-a-te ⸢kun⸣ | |
| 10 | lu-ki-in-[nu] | |
| 11 | [iš]-⸢di⸣ {giš}GU.ZA ša ⸢LUGAL⸣ | |
| 12 | [EN-ia] {d}15 ša {⸢uru⸣}[x x x] | |
| 13 | [LUGAL] ⸢be⸣-li₂ ⸢u₂⸣-[da o] | |
| 14 | [x x x] E₂ tu₂ [x x x] | |
| 15 | [x x x x]+⸢x⸣+[x x x x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [x x x x]-⸢mu⸣-te ⸢x x⸣ | |
| 2' | [ina ši-a-ri ina] ⸢li⸣-di-iš | |
| 3' | LUGAL be-li₂ i-ša₂-am-me | |
| 4' | ana-ku ina UGU-hi a-mu-at | |
| 5' | ma-a a-ta-a la tu-ša₂-aš₂-man-ni | |
| 6' | A.ŠA₃ E₂ UN-MEŠ DUMU-MEŠ še-lu-a-te | |
| 7' | {1}ARAD—{d}PA {lu₂}SANGA ina ŠA₃ un-qi | |
| 8' | is-sa-ṭar a-na ra-ma-ni-šu₂ | |
| 9' | ut-te-e-re u₃ a-na-ku | |
| 10' | ina UGU-hi la ša₂-aš₂-lu-ṭa-ku | |
| 11' | u₂-ma-a a-na LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 12' | as-sap-ra | |
| 13' | LUGAL be-li₂ lu-u-di | |
Sources & licences
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