ABL 0353 (P334229)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0353 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334229 |
| 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 [0:4] o 1o 1–o 44 | To the king, my lord: your servant Balasî. Good health to the king, my lord! May Nabû and Marduk bless the king, my lord! |
| Obverse [4:6] o 55–o 66 | Concerning the raven about which the king, my lord, wrote to me, (here are the relevant omens): |
| Obverse [6:10] o 77–o 1010 | If a raven brings something into the house of a man, the said man will obtain something that does not belong to him. |
| Obverse [10:16] o 1111–o 1616 | If a falcon or a raven drops something it carries into the house of a man, (or) according to a variant, before a man, the said house will have išdihu. Išdihu (means) profit. |
| Obverse [16:24] o 1717– | If a bird carries flesh, a bird, or anything, and drops it into the house of a man, the said man will receive a large inheritance. |
| Reverse [3:7] r 44–r 77 | May Nabû and Marduk bless the king, my lord, and may they give life of distant days, old age and fullness of life to the king, my lord! |
| Reverse [7:21] r 88– | I have servants in the land of the Chief Cupbearer, and I have fields and orchards (there). (But) the servants of the Chief Cupbearer, coveting my orchards, have snatched them and chased my people away. Fr[om the mo]ment they chased them, they (= my people) [go]t into a panic and disappeared. May [the gods] not forsake me! [May the ki]ng [feel] pity (for his servant)! May a guard be appointed [for] me, let him do me justice! |
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-ia | |
| 2 | ARAD-ka {1}ba-la-si-i | |
| 3 | lu-u DI-mu a-na LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 4 | {d}PA {d}AMAR.UTU a-na LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 5 | lik-ru-bu ina UGU U₂.⸢TE₃⸣{mušen} | |
| 6 | ša LUGAL be-[li₂ iš]-pur-an-ni | |
| 7 | 1 U₂.TE₃{mušen} mi₃-im-ma | |
| 8 | ana E₂ NA u₂-še-ri-ib | |
| 9 | LU₂ BI mi₃-im-ma la šu-a-tu₂ | |
| 10 | ŠU-su KUR-ad₂ | |
| 11 | 1 ŠUR₂.DU₃{mušen} lu a-ri-bu{mušen} | |
| 12 | mi₃-im-ma ša na-šu-u₂ | |
| 13 | a-na E₂ NA ša₂-ni-iš | |
| 14 | ana IGI NA id-di | |
| 15 | E₂ BI iš-di-hu TUK-ši | |
| 16 | iš-di-hu ne₂-me-lu | |
| 17 | 1 iṣ-ṣu-ru lu-u UZU | |
| b.e. | ||
| 18 | lu-u iṣ-ṣu-ru | |
| 19 | lu-u mi₃-im-ma na-ši-ma | |
| r | ||
| 1 | <$ana$> a-na E₂ NA ŠUB-di | |
| 2 | NA BI zi-it-tu₂ ra-bi-tu₂ | |
| 3 | ek-ka-al | |
| 4 | {d}PA {d}AMAR.UTU a-na LUGAL | |
| 5 | EN-ia lik-ru-bu TI.LA | |
| 6 | UD-MEŠ ru-qu-ti ši-bu-u₂-tu₂ | |
| 7 | lit-tu₂-tu a-na LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 8 | lid-di-nu {lu₂}ARAD-MEŠ-ia | |
| 9 | i-ba-aš₂-ši ina KUR—{lu₂}GAL—ša₂-qe₂-e | |
| 10 | A.ŠA₃ {giš}SAR i-ba-aš₂-ši | |
| 11 | {lu₂}ARAD-MEŠ-ni ša {lu₂}GAL—KAŠ.LUL {lu₂}GAL—KAŠ.LUL | |
| 12 | {giš}SAR-MEŠ-ia iṣ-ṣa-ah-tu₂ | |
| 13 | it-ta-ṣu UN-MEŠ-ia | |
| 14 | ⸢uk⸣-ta-aš₂-ši-du-ni UN-MEŠ | |
| 15 | ⸢TA@v⸣ [qa]-ni u₂-kaš-ši-du-u-ni | |
| 16 | [ig]-⸢du⸣-ur-ru ih-tal-qu | |
| 17 | [DINGIR-MEŠ]-⸢ni⸣ la u₂-ra-am-mu-ni | |
| 18 | ⸢a⸣-[na] ⸢LUGAL⸣ re-e-mu | |
| r.e. | ||
| 19 | [li-iṣ-bat]-⸢su⸣ {lu₂}ša₂—EN.NUN | |
| 20 | [is-si]-⸢ia⸣ lip-qi₂-du | |
| 21 | de-⸢e-ni le⸣-pu-uš | |
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