ABL 0204 (P334148)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0204 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334148 |
| 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/saa10 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:7] o 1o 1–o 77 | To the king, my lord: your servant Banî. The very best of health to the king, my lord! May Ninurta and Gula give happiness and physical well-being to the king, my lord! |
| Obverse [7:11] o 88–o 1111 | Concerning Nabû-nadin-šumi about whom the king, my lord, wrote to me: "Why do you lie?" — |
| Obverse [11:26] o 1212– | would I lie to the king, my lord? (Your) gods [Bel] and Nabû, who give you confidence, they made him recover! The Lady of Life, your gracious, who gives the king, my lord, long-lasting days, old age, fullness of life, health and vigour, she grasped his hand! He got well thanks to the god and genie of the king, my lord! |
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}ba-ni-i | |
| 3 | lu-u DI-mu a—dan-niš | |
| 4 | a—dan-niš a-na LUGAL | |
| 5 | EN-ia {d}MAŠ u {d}gu-la | |
| 6 | ṭu-ub ŠA₃-bi ṭu-ub UZU-MEŠ | |
| 7 | a-na LUGAL EN-ia lid-di-nu | |
| 8 | ina UGU {1}{d}PA—SUM—MU | |
| 9 | ša LUGAL be-li₂ | |
| 10 | iš-pur-an-ni ma-a | |
| 11 | a-na mi₃-i-ni ta-sa-al-li | |
| 12 | a-na LUGAL-e EN-ia | |
| 13 | a-sa-al-li | |
| r | ||
| 1 | {[d}EN] {d}AG DINGIR-MEŠ | |
| 2 | ša u₂-tak-kil-<u>-ka-ni | |
| 3 | šu-nu ub-tal-li-ṭuš-šu₂ | |
| 4 | {d}be-lit—TI.LA | |
| 5 | DINGIR-ka dam-qu | |
| 6 | ša UD-MEŠ GID₂.DA-MEŠ | |
| 7 | ši-bu-tu lit-tu-tu₂ | |
| 8 | DI-mu TI.LA a-na LUGAL | |
| 9 | EN-ia ta-da-nu-u-ni | |
| 10 | ši-i ŠU.2-su | |
| 11 | ta-ṣa-bat ina ŠA₃-bi | |
| 12 | DINGIR u {d}ALAD ša LUGAL | |
| 13 | EN-ia ib-ta-laṭ | |
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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