ABL 0387 (P334263)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0387 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334263 |
| 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/saa05 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:3] o 1o 1–o 33 | To the king, my lord: your servant Šarru-emuranni. Good health to the king, my lord! |
| Obverse [3:9] o 44–o 99 | As to the wine about which the king, my lord, wrote me: "Set aside 200 homers for the garrison!" — I have set aside as much of it as the king, my lord, wrote. |
| Obverse [9:13] o 1010–o 1313 | As to Kubaba-satar about whom the king, my lord, wrote me: "Speak nicely with him!" — |
| Obverse [13:17] o 1414–o 1717 | my [mo]uth is closed. [As the ki]ng, my lord, [wr]ote me, [I shall speak nic]ely [with him ......] |
| Reverse [2:3] r 3'3'–r 3'3' | [He] will st[ay in] my [pre]sence. |
| Reverse [3:7] r 4'4'–r 7'7' | I have now se[nt] (word), and I shall find an interpreter in [...], acquire him for the king, my lord, and send him. |
| Reverse [7:13] r 8'8'–r 13'13' | As to the city lords about whom the king, my lord, wrote me: "If they come to you, get them and send them to me!" — may the gods of the king make (that happen)! |
| Reverse [13:24] r 14'14'– | Citizens of Babylon have come to (visit) the king, my lord. Previously, when the king, my lord, established the debt-remission, he released many people from their possession. The king, my lord, should [...] the matter and let them be informed so they become scared of [...] deportation. |
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\t LUGAL be-li₂-ia | |
| 2 | ARAD-ka {1}LUGAL—IGI.LAL-ni | |
| 3 | lu DI\d-mu a-na\t LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 4 | ina UGU GEŠTIN-MEŠ\m ša\d LUGAL | |
| 5 | be-li₂ iš-pur-an-ni | |
| 6 | ma-a 02 me ANŠE GEŠTIN-MEŠ\m | |
| 7 | a-na\t ma-ṣar-te u₂-li | |
| 8 | a—mar ša\d LUGAL be-li₂ | |
| 9 | iš-pur-an-ni u₂-ta-li | |
| 10 | ina UGU {1}ku₃-KA₂—sa-tar | |
| 11 | ša\d LUGAL be-li₂ iš-pur-an-ni | |
| 12 | [ma]-a ina pi-i DUG₃.GA | |
| 13 | [i]-si-šu₂ du-ub-bu | |
| 14 | [pi]-⸢i⸣-ia-a-ma la pa-te | |
| 15 | [ki-i ša] ⸢LUGAL⸣ be-li₂ | |
| 16 | [iš]-⸢pur⸣-an-ni | |
| 17 | [ina pi-i DUG₃].⸢GA-ma⸣ | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [x x x]+⸢x⸣ [x x x] | |
| 2' | [x x x] pa-an [x x x] | |
| 3' | [ina pa]-⸢ni-ia⸣ i-za-[x x x] | |
| 4' | u₂-ma-a a-sa-[par o] | |
| 5' | {lu₂v}tar-gu-ma-nu ⸢ina⸣ [x x] | |
| 6' | a-mar a-na\t LUGAL be-li₂-ia | |
| 7' | a-na-ši-a u₂-še-bal | |
| 8' | ina UGU {lu₂v}EN—URU-a-ni\d {lu₂v}EN—URU-a-ni\d | |
| 9' | ša\d LUGAL be-li₂ iš-pur-an-ni | |
| 10' | ma-a šum-ma i-tal-ku-u-ni | |
| 11' | ina pa-ni-ka ma-a ⸢i⸣-ṣa | |
| 12' | ina UGU-hi-ia še-bi-la | |
| 13' | DINGIR-MEŠ\m-ni ⸢ša\d⸣ LUGAL le-⸢pu⸣-šu₂ | |
| 14' | DUMU—KA₂.⸢DINGIR⸣.RA{ki} DUMU—KA₂.⸢DINGIR⸣.RA{ki} | |
| 15' | ina UGU LUGAL be-li₂-ia | |
| 16' | i-tal-ku-u-ni a-na ma-hi-ir-te | |
| 17' | ki-i du-ra-ru | |
| 18' | LUGAL be-li₂ iš-kun-u-ni | |
| 19' | UN-MEŠ TA@v pa-ni-šu₂-nu | |
| r.e. | ||
| 20 | ma-a-aʾ-du | |
| 21 | u₂-se-ṣi-a | |
| 22 | LUGAL be-li₂ ⸢a⸣-bu-⸢tu₂⸣ | |
| e. | ||
| 1 | [x x x] ⸢li⸣-qi-bu-ni-šu₂-nu TA\m IGI ga-li-te [x x x x]+⸢x⸣ li-gi-ru-ru | |
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