ABL 0514 (P334354)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0514 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334354 |
| 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 [0:12] o 1o 1–o 1212 | To the king, my lord: your servant, Bel-iddina. Good health to the king, my lord. May Nabû and [Marduk] very greatly bless the king, my lord. May Aššur, Nikkal, and Lord-Crown, who love the name of the king, my lord, ask forever after the health of the king, my lord. May they give to the king, my lord, happiness and physical well-being. |
| Obverse [12:19] o 1313– | May this Sin, (as well as) Nikkal and Nusku, to whom the king, my lord, has been obedient and whom he has revered, [...... to] the king, my lord. |
| Reverse [0:1] r 1'1'–r 1'1' | [...] to [......] |
| Reverse [1:2] r 2'2'–r 2'2' | [...] the king [...] |
| Reverse [2:3] r 3'3'–r 3'3' | [...with]in [...] |
| Reverse [4:9] r 5'5'–r 9'9' | May Ištar of Nineveh and Ištar of Arbela return to the king, my [lord], many regnal ye]ars of good luck. |
| Reverse [9:16] r 10'10'–r 16'16' | [The king], my lord, had pity on his servant, saying: "Praise Sin (for it)!" Today is the second day I am praising him; I will finish it tomorrow. I will make a sacrifice of well-being before Sin and bless the king, my lord. |
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}⸢EN⸣—SUM-na | |
| 3 | lu DI-mu a-na LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 4 | {d}AG u {[d}ŠU₂] a-na LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 5 | a—dan-niš a—dan-niš lik-ru-bu | |
| 6 | aš-šur {d}NIN.GAL {d}EN—AGA | |
| 7 | ra-im-u₂-ti [ša₂] šu-me | |
| 8 | ša₂ LUGAL EN-ia DI-mu ša₂ LUGAL | |
| 9 | EN-ia a-na da-ri-iš | |
| 10 | liš-ʾu-lu ṭu-ub ŠA₃-bi | |
| 11 | ṭu-ub UZU-MEŠ a-na LUGAL | |
| 12 | EN-ia lid-di-nu | |
| 13 | {d}30 an-ni-u₂ {d}NIN.GAL | |
| 14 | {⸢d⸣}PA.TUG₂ ša LUGAL be-li₂-<<ia₂>> | |
| 15 | [e]-ni-šu-nu e-mur-u-ni | |
| 16 | ⸢u₃⸣ ip-la-hu-šu-⸢nu⸣-[ni] | |
| 17 | [a-na] LUGAL [EN-ia x x x] | |
| 18 | [x x x x x x x x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [x x] a-na ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x] | |
| 2' | [x x]+⸢x⸣-šu₂ LUGAL [x x x x] | |
| 3' | [x] ⸢ŠA₃⸣-bi be [x x x x] | |
| 4' | [x x]+⸢x⸣ e-ta-[x x x x] | |
| 5' | {[d]}15 ša₂ NINA{[ki]} | |
| 6' | {[d]}15 ša₂ arba-il₃ [o] | |
| 7' | [pa]-⸢le⸣-e ma-aʾ-du-te | |
| 8' | [ša₂ du]-un-qi₂ a-na LUGAL | |
| 9' | [EN]-ia lu-tir-ra-ni | |
| 10' | [LUGAL] be-li re-e-mu | |
| 11' | [a]-na ARAD-šu₂ is-sa-kan | |
| 12' | ma-a a-na {d}30 du-ul-lu | |
| 13' | ša₂-ni-u₂ ina UD-me an-ni-e a-da-lal₂ | |
| 14' | iš—ši-a-ri iš—ši-a-ri ug-ga-mar | |
| 15' | {udu}SISKUR ša₂ šul-me ina IGI {d}30 | |
| 16' | ep-pa-aš₂ a-na LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 17' | a-kar-rab | |
Sources & licences
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