ABL 0347 (P334225)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0347 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334225 |
| 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, my lord: your servant Marduk-šarru-uṣur. Good health to the king, my lord! May Nabû and Marduk bless the king, my lord. |
| Obverse [5:12] o 66–o 1212 | A servant who is in trouble petitions his masters. I am (now) in trouble and petitioning the king, my lord. Let the king, my lord, appoint me, and let my accounts be made with the scribes. The scribes have wrenched me away from the king. |
| Obverse [12:18] o 1313– | Now, ever since the king, my lord, appointed me, I have been revering the palace together with my household. [I did not become] a do-nothing before the king, m[y] lo[rd]. |
| Reverse [0:2] r 1r 1–r 22 | The king, my lord, kn[ows that] now [...] not [...]. |
| Reverse [2:4] r 33–r 44 | May the king, my lord, act as he deems best. |
| Reverse [4:9] r 55–r 99 | 31 talents of twine of linen; 80 talents of red wool, of the country; 07 talents of black (wool), of the country, 30 talents of alum, 10 talents of natron. In all, 158 talents. |
| Reverse [10:13] r 1111–r 1313 | Let the king, my lord, ask (about the matter): nobody gave me a mina (or even) half a mina from 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 be-li₂-ia | |
| 2 | ARAD-ka {1}{d}AMAR.UTU—MAN—PAB | |
| 3 | lu DI-mu a-na LUGAL be-li₂-ia | |
| 4 | {d}AG u₃ {d}AMAR.UTU | |
| 5 | a-na LUGAL be-li₂-ia lik-ru-bu | |
| 6 | {lu₂}ARAD ša mar-ṣa-šu-un-ni | |
| 7 | EN-MEŠ-šu₂ i-mah-har | |
| 8 | a-na-ku mar-ṣa LUGAL be-li₂ a-ta-har | |
| 9 | LUGAL be-li₂ lip-qi-dan-ni | |
| 10 | NIG₂.ŠID-ia TA@v {lu₂}A.BA-MEŠ lu-pi-šu₂ | |
| 11 | {lu₂}A.BA-MEŠ TA@v ŠU.2 LUGAL | |
| 12 | uh-ta-li-qu-u-ni | |
| 13 | an-nu-rig TA@v E₂ LUGAL be-li₂ | |
| 14 | ip-qi-da-ni-ni | |
| 15 | TA@v E₂-ia E₂.GAL a-pa-lah₃ | |
| 16 | a-na la e-pi-še | |
| 17 | ina IGI LUGAL ⸢EN-ia⸣ [la a-tu-ur] | |
| r | ||
| 1 | LUGAL be-li₂ ⸢u₂⸣-[di x] | |
| 2 | an-nu-rig ⸢la x x x⸣ [x] | |
| 3 | LUGAL be-li₂ a-ki ša i-la-u-ni | |
| 4 | le-pu-uš | |
| 5 | 31 GU₂.UN ṭi-bu GADA | |
| 6 | 80 GU₂.UN SIG₂.SA₅ SIG₂.SA₅ KUR | |
| 7 | 07 GU₂.UN <SIG₂>.MI <SIG₂>.MI KUR | |
| 8 | 30 GU₂.UN {na₄}ga-bu-u | |
| 9 | 10 GU₂.UN {na₄}ni-ti-ru | |
| 10 | PAB 01 me 58 GU₂.UN | |
| 11 | LUGAL be-li₂ liš-al | |
| 12 | 01 MA.NA 1/2 MA.NA | |
| 13 | TA@v ŠA₃-bi me-me-ni | |
| 14 | la i-di-na | |
Sources & licences
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