ABL 0339 (P334219)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0339 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334219 |
| 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 [0:6] o 1o 1–o 66 | To the king, my lord: your servant Mar-Issar. Good health to the king, my lord! May Nabû and Marduk bless the king, my lord! May the great gods bestow long days, well-being and joy upon the king, my lord! |
| Obverse [6:12] o 77–o 1212 | The governor of Dur-Šarruku has already previously opened my seals, taken 10 minas of si[lv]er, 1400 sheep and 15 oxen [belonging to the gods Š]imalu'a and [Humhu]m and [distributed them] to [...] his retinue. |
| Obverse [12:13] o 1313–o 1313 | [......] I |
| Obverse [13:14] o 1414–o 1414 | [......] my seals |
| Obverse [14:16] o 1515–o 1616 | (15) (Break) |
| Obverse [16:25] o 1717– | The governor[s] who were before h[im] did not take anything from the tem[ples] — now he has recklessly opened a treasury of the god and the king, my lord, and taken silver from it. |
| Reverse [4:9] r 55–r 99 | If the Prefect of the land and the governors of Nineveh and Arbela took silver from temples, then he too might take it. It is treasure of the god and the king, my lord; why is it being squandered? |
| Reverse [9:17] r 1010–r 1717 | Let the king, my lord, send a trusty bodyguard to investigate (the matter); the man who put the governor up to this should be punished. [Let] (the others) [kn]ow and be frightened off, [or el]se [the govern]ors will dissip[ate] a[ll the treasures o]f the temples. The king, my lord, should know this. |
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-ia₂ ARAD-ka | |
| 2 | {1}DUMU—{d}15 lu-u DI-mu a-na MAN | |
| 3 | EN-ia₂ {d}PA u {d}AMAR.UTU a-na MAN | |
| 4 | EN-ia₂ lik-ru-bu UD-me ar₂-ku-te | |
| 5 | ṭu-ub UZU u hu-ud ŠA₃-bi | |
| 6 | DINGIR-MEŠ GAL-MEŠ a-na MAN EN-ia₂ liš-ru-ku | |
| 7 | {lu₂v}EN.NAM ša {uru}BAD₃—šar-ru-ku | |
| 8 | ina pa-ni-ti {na₄}KIŠIB-e-a ip-te-te | |
| 9 | 10 MA.NA ⸢KUG.UD 01-lim⸣ 04-me UDU-MEŠ | |
| 10 | 15 GUD-⸢MEŠ⸣ [ša {d}ši]-⸢i⸣-ma-lu-u-a | |
| 11 | u₃ {[d}HUM].⸢HUM⸣ it-ti-ši | |
| 12 | a-[na x x x x] ⸢ša⸣ i-se-e-šu₂ | |
| 13 | [it-ti-din x x x x x] a-na-ku | |
| 14 | [x x x x x x x x] {⸢na₄⸣}KIŠIB-e-a | |
| 15 | [x x x x x x x x x x x] | |
| 16 | [x x x x x x x x x x x] | |
| 17 | [x x x] {⸢lu₂v}NAM⸣-[MEŠ] | |
| b.e. | ||
| 18 | ⸢ša⸣ pa-na-tu-uš-[šu₂] | |
| 19 | me-me-e-ni TA@v E₂—[DINGIR-MEŠ] E₂—[DINGIR-MEŠ] | |
| r | ||
| 1 | la iš-ši-i-u u₂-ma-[a] | |
| 2 | šu-u i-si-ia-aṭ E₂—⸢nak⸣-[kam-ti] E₂—⸢nak⸣-[kam-ti] | |
| 3 | ša DINGIR u₃ LUGAL EN-ia₂ | |
| 4 | ip-te-te KUG.UD it-ti-ši | |
| 5 | ki-ma {lu₂v}GAR.KUR {lu₂v}GAR.KUR {lu₂v}EN.NAM | |
| 6 | ša {uru}NINA u {uru}arba-il₃ | |
| 7 | KUG.UD TA@v E₂—DINGIR-MEŠ E₂—DINGIR-MEŠ it-ta-ṣu | |
| 8 | šu-u liš-ši nak-kan-tu | |
| 9 | ša DINGIR u₃ MAN EN-ia₂ ši-i | |
| 10 | a-ta-a u₂-ba-du-du MAN be-li₂ | |
| 11 | {lu₂v}qur-bu-tu₂ tak-lu liš-pu-ra | |
| 12 | liš-al lu-ṣi-ṣi LU₂ ša a-na | |
| 13 | {lu₂v}EN.NAM u₂-šad-bi-bu-u-ni | |
| 14 | ši-ip-ṭu ina ŠA₃-bi-šu₂ liš-ku-nu | |
| 15 | [lu]-⸢di⸣-i-u lig-ru-ru [u₂-la]-a | |
| 16 | [NIG₂.GA] ⸢ša⸣ E₂.KUR-MEŠ ⸢gab⸣-[bu] | |
| 17 | {[lu₂v]}⸢NAM⸣-MEŠ u₂-pa-aṭ₂-[ṭu-ru] | |
| 18 | MAN be-li₂ lu-u u₂-di | |
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