ABL 0429 (P334295)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0429 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334295 |
| 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 [0:5] o 1o 1–o 55 | To the king, my lord: your servant Akkullanu. Good health to the king, my lord! May Nabû and Marduk bless the king, my lord! |
| Obverse [5:15] o 66– | The golden plate which disappeared from the Aššur temple has been seen in the hands of the stonecutter Qurdî-Nergal. Now the gold was for his eyes (i.e., meant for him). I am going to question the scribe now. |
| Reverse [0:12] r 1r 1– | Let the king write again, and let them question him. The king should not write to Ṭab-šar-Sin, (for) he has been bribed by him. Instead let them question him as well: "To whom have you given bribes? Make up for the gold!" |
| Right [0:5] r.e. 12r.e. 12– | The king should not let this pass over in silence. Let them at the same time question (all those) who have enjoyed gifts at the expense of the Aššur temple. |
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 | |
| 2 | ARAD-ka {1}ak-kul-la-nu | |
| 3 | lu-u šul-mu a-na LUGAL | |
| 4 | EN-ia₂ {d}PA u {d}AMAR.UTU | |
| 5 | a-na LUGAL EN-ia₂ lik-ru-bu | |
| 6 | le-ʾu-u ša KUG.GI | |
| 7 | ša TA@v E₂—aš-šur ZAH₂-u-ni | |
| 8 | ina ŠU.2 {1}qur-di—U.GUR | |
| 9 | {lu₂}BUR.GUL it-ta-mar | |
| 10 | an-nu-rig KUG.GI | |
| 11 | a-na IGI.2-MEŠ-šu₂ | |
| 12 | u₃ {lu₂}A.BA | |
| 13 | an-nu-rig | |
| 14 | a-ša₂-ʾa-al | |
| r | ||
| 1 | LUGAL tu-u₂-⸢ra⸣ | |
| 2 | liš-pu-ra liš-u₂-lu-šu₂ | |
| 3 | a-na {1}DUG₃—IM—{d}30 | |
| 4 | LUGAL lu la i-šap-pa-ra | |
| 5 | šul-ma-nu TA@v pa-ni-šu₂ | |
| 6 | e-ta-kal u₃ is-se-niš | |
| 7 | liš-u₂-lu-šu₂ | |
| 8 | ma-a a-na man-ni | |
| 9 | šul-man-nu ta-ad-din | |
| 10 | ma-a KUG.GI-MEŠ | |
| 11 | ku-bu-us | |
| r.e. | ||
| 12 | LUGAL ina UGU-hi | |
| 13 | lu la i-qu-al | |
| 14 | a-ki-lu-u-ti | |
| e. | ||
| 1 | ša šul-man-nu ina UGU E₂—aš-šur | |
| 2 | e-kal-u-ni is-se-niš liš-u₂-lu | |
Sources & licences
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