ABL 0220 (P334161)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0220 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334161 |
| 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/saa16 · 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 palace scribe, my lord: your maid Sarai. May Bel, Belti[a], the Lady of Babylon, Nabû, Tašmetu, Ištar of Nineveh (and) Ištar of Arbela bless my lord! May they give long days, happiness and physical well-being to my lord. |
| Obverse [7:12] o 88– | There are seven persons, servants of my lord, whom the governor of Bet-nayalani took and gave to Marduk-eriba. |
| Reverse [2:7] r 33–r 77 | Now the(se) people are here. They have come to me, saying: "Speak in the presence of the palace scribe as long as Marduk-eriba does not allow us to enter." |
| Reverse [7:8] r 88–r 88 | The eunuch (whom) my lord 'sealed' is with them at the moment. |
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 {lu₂}A.BA—E₂.GAL {lu₂}A.BA—E₂.GAL EN-ia | |
| 2 | GEME₂-ka {mi₂}sa-ra-a.a | |
| 3 | {d}EN {d}GAŠAN-ti-[ia] {d}be-let—KA₂.DINGIR.RA{ki} | |
| 4 | {d}AG {d}taš-me-tum {d}15 ša NINA{ki} | |
| 5 | {d}15 ša {uru}arba-il₃ a-na EN-ia | |
| 6 | lik-ru-bu UD-MEŠ GID₂.DA-MEŠ ṭu-ub ŠA₃-bi | |
| 7 | ṭu-ub UZU-MEŠ a-na EN-ia lid-di-nu | |
| 8 | ARAD-MEŠ-ni ša be-li₂-ia | |
| 9 | ša {lu₂}EN.NAM ša E₂—na-a.a-la-ni | |
| r | ||
| 1 | iš-šu-u₂ 07 ZI-MEŠ šu-nu | |
| 2 | a-na {1}{d}AMAR.UTU—SU it-ti-din-šu-nu | |
| 3 | an-nu-rig UN-MEŠ an-na-ka šu-nu | |
| 4 | it-tal-ku-nu ina UGU-hi-ia | |
| 5 | ma-a ina pa-ni {lu₂}A.BA—E₂.GAL {lu₂}A.BA—E₂.GAL qi-bi-iʾ | |
| 6 | ma-a a-du-u E₂ {1}{d}AMAR.UTU—SU | |
| 7 | la u₂-še-ra-ba-na-ši-na | |
| 8 | {lu₂}SAG <ša> be-li₂ ik-nu-ku-u-ni | |
| 9 | an-nu-rig is-si-šu-nu | |
Sources & licences
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