ABL 0333 (P334216)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0333 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334216 |
| 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 [0:5] o 1o 1–o 55 | To the king of justice, my lord: your servant Bel-naṣir. Good health to the king, my lord! May Nabû and Marduk bless the king, my lord. |
| Obverse [5:10] o 66–o 1010 | When the king, my lord, was seated on the šaddattunu in Arbela, the king an[grily] told his servant: "Arrive before my arms!" |
| Obverse [10:15] o 1111–o 1515 | Weeping, I didn't arrive; I explained and told the king, my lord, that it was right (to do so). And in the presence of the king's [serva]nt, they said: "[...]." |
| Obverse [15:16] o 1616–o 1616 | That the king [...] to my [...] |
| Reverse [2:4] r 3'3'–r 4'4' | They told it to me, (and) the king, my lord, questioned them. |
| Reverse [4:9] r 5'5'–r 9'9' | I said to the king, my lord: "Nurî made noise like [a swarm of] locusts (and) did an evil thing. And he set u[s] a [...]." |
| Reverse [9:15] r 10'10'–r 15'15' | A second time I said to the king, my lord: "[May] the king, my lord, [have mercy] on [his] servants, all those who used to arrive in [his] presence!" |
| Reverse [15:20] r 16'16'– | On the [xth] day we will arrive in the ki[ng's] presence with good intentions. May we not arrive because of ...! |
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 ki-na-a-te EN-ia₂ | |
| 2 | ARAD-ka {1}EN—PAB-ir | |
| 3 | lu DI-mu a-na LUGAL EN-ia₂ | |
| 4 | {d}PA u {d}MES a-na LUGAL EN-ia₂ | |
| 5 | lik-ru-bu | |
| 6 | ki-i LUGAL EN ina {uru}arba-il₃ | |
| 7 | ina UGU-hi ša₂-ad-da-tu-u-nu | |
| 8 | kam-mu-su-u-ni | |
| 9 | LUGAL a-na {lu₂v}ARAD-šu₂ ir-tu-[a-ba] | |
| 10 | ma-a qi₂-ri-ib ina IGI A₂.2-⸢e⸣-[a] | |
| 11 | ⸢ana⸣-ku a-ba-ak-ka la aq-ri-⸢ib⸣ | |
| 12 | up-ta-ši-iq a-na LUGAL EN-ia₂ | |
| 13 | aq-ṭi-bi mu-uk ta-ri-iṣ | |
| 14 | u₃ ina IGI {lu₂v}⸢ARAD ša⸣ LUGAL | |
| 15 | ma [x x x x] | |
| 16 | ša LUGAL a-na [x x x x]-ia₂ | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [x x x x x]-nu a-[x x] | |
| 2' | ⸢x x x⸣ kas LU₂~v qi\t mu BAD₃ ⸢x⸣ | |
| 3' | iq-ṭi-bu-u-ni | |
| 4' | LUGAL EN is-sa-al-šu₂-nu | |
| 5' | a-na LUGAL EN-ia aq-ṭi-bi | |
| 6' | mu-uk ki-i ⸢x⸣ BURU₅ | |
| 7' | {1}ZALAG₂-i ih-tu-bur | |
| 8' | la ṭa-ab-tu ⸢e-ta⸣-[pa-aš₂] | |
| 9' | u₃ šu-u ⸢la⸣ [x x x] | |
| 10' | is-sa-kan-an-⸢na⸣-[ši] | |
| 11' | ša-nu-te-šu₂ a-na ⸢LUGAL⸣ [EN-ia] | |
| 12' | aq-ṭi-[bi o] | |
| 13' | mu-uk LUGAL EN ⸢re⸣-[e-mu] | |
| 14' | ina UGU-hi {lu₂v}ARAD-⸢MEŠ⸣-[šu₂ liš-kun] | |
| 15' | am—mar ina pa-ni-[šu₂ x x] | |
| 16' | ni-qar-rib-u-ni UD [x-KAM₂] | |
| 17' | a-na ṭu-bi ina IGI ⸢LUGAL⸣ | |
| 18' | ni-iq-ri-ib [o] | |
| r.e. | ||
| 19 | TA@v pa-an la-qa-ni [o] | |
| 20 | lu la ni-qar-ri-ib | |
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