ABL 0377 (P334253)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0377 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334253 |
| 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/saa13 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:10] o 1o 1–o 1010 | To the king, my lord: your servant Nabû-šumu-iddina. Good health, good health, good health to the king, my lord. A thousand (times) good health to the king, my lord. May Aššur, Sin, Šamaš, Bel, and [Nabû] bless the king, my lord. |
| Obverse [10:13] o 1111–o 1313 | The face of the king my lord has been seen by very many (people). |
| Obverse [13:26] o 1414– | Let an order be given to the palace-overseers: when the elders pass by beneath the terrace, let them allow me to see the face of the king, my lord, and may the k[ing] look at me. Let them constantly send me word on the health of [the king, my lord]. |
| Reverse [9:13] r 1010–r 1313 | Upon whom are my eyes fixed? (In) that I have written, let them allow me to enter before the king and speak (with him). |
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}{d}PA—MU—AŠ | |
| 3 | lu-u DI-mu lu-u DI-mu | |
| 4 | lu-u DI-mu a-na LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 5 | a-du 01 lim lu-u DI-mu | |
| 6 | a-na LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 7 | {d}aš-šur {d}30 {d}ša₂-maš | |
| 8 | {d}EN u₃ {d}[AG] | |
| 9 | a-na LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 10 | lik-ru-bu | |
| 11 | pa-ni ša LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 12 | a—dan-niš a—dan-niš | |
| 13 | e-ta-am-ru-u-ni | |
| 14 | a-na {lu₂v}ša₂—IGI—E₂.GAL-MEŠ | |
| 15 | ṭe₃-mu <li>-iš-kun-nu | |
| 16 | ki-ma {lu₂v}AB.BA-MEŠ | |
| r | ||
| 1 | ina KI.TA tam-le-e | |
| 2 | e-te-qu | |
| 3 | lu-ra-mu-u-ni | |
| 4 | pa-ni ša LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 5 | la-mur-ru ⸢LUGAL⸣ | |
| 6 | lip-la-[sa-an-ni] | |
| 7 | DI-mu ša [LUGAL EN]-ia | |
| 8 | ka-a-a-[ma-ni]-u₂ | |
| 9 | liš-pur-[o]-u-ni | |
| 10 | TA man-ni-⸢ma IGI⸣.2-MEŠ-ia | |
| 11 | ša-kan-na | |
| 12 | ša aš₂-pur-an-ni ina IGI LUGAL | |
| 13 | lu-še-ri-⸢bu⸣-[ni] | |
| 14 | la-da-bu-[ub] | |
Sources & licences
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