ABL 0531 (P334362)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0531 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334362 |
| 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 [0:4] o 1o 1–o 44 | To the king, my lord: your servant, Nabû-bani-ahhe. Good health to the king, my lord. May Nabû and Marduk bless the king, my lord. |
| Obverse [4:10] o 55–o 1010 | The gold statue is now finished. The gold for the copper statue has arrived. Let whomever the king, my lord, commands, come and weigh it out, so we can apply it. |
| Obverse [10:19] o 1111– | The ... with which they weigh(ed) the gold are in the treasury, a sealed building. When whomever the ki[ng, my lord], is going to send [comes], let him bring a seal(ed order) with him, and we[igh out] the gold [for the statue] with it. |
| Reverse [2:16] r 33–r 1616 | [They] are ask[ing me] about the lapis lazuli. I have written to the king, my lord, two or three times but it has not been sent to me. Now if there is no lapis lazuli, the king, my lord, should issue an order that they give me a monthly (allotment of) copper just as they gave to Urdu-Nabû, and, in addition, whatever is in the magazine. Kulu'u and Mannu-ki-Arbail, the stone-carver, should come along as well. They will be able to tread before it ices up. |
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—DU₃—PAB-MEŠ | |
| 3 | lu DI-mu a-na LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 4 | {d}PA {d}MES a-na LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 5 | lik-ru-bu an-nu-rig | |
| 6 | ṣal-mu ša KUG.GI ga-am-mur | |
| 7 | KUG.GI ša ṣal-me ša URUDU | |
| 8 | ⸢ka⸣-ši-di man-nu ša LUGAL be-li₂ | |
| 9 | i-qa-bu-u-ni lil-li-ka | |
| 10 | li-hi-ṭi ni-iš-me-di | |
| 11 | kaš-šad-u₂-tu₂ ša KUG.GI | |
| 12 | ina ŠA₃-bi i-hi-ṭu-u-ni | |
| 13 | ina na-kan-te E₂—un-qi E₂—un-qi | |
| 14 | ki-i man-nu ša ⸢LUGAL⸣ [be-li₂] | |
| 15 | i-šap-par-an-[ni il-la-ka-ni] | |
| 16 | un-qu is-⸢si⸣-[šu] | |
| r | ||
| 1 | lu-bi-la KUG.⸢GI⸣ [ša ṣal-me] | |
| 2 | ina ŠA₃-bi li-⸢hi⸣-[ṭi] | |
| 3 | ina UGU {na₄}ZA.GIN₃ iš-al-[lu-ni] | |
| 4 | 02-šu₂ 03-šu₂ a-na LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 5 | a-sap-ra la u₂-še-bil-u-ni | |
| 6 | u₂-ma-a šum-ma {na₄}ZA.GIN₃ | |
| 7 | la-aš₂-šu₂ URUDU ar-hi | |
| 8 | ki-i ša a-na {1}ARAD—{d}PA | |
| 9 | i-di-nu-u-ni mi-i-nu | |
| 10 | ša ur-su-tu₂-u-ni is-se-niš | |
| 11 | LUGAL be-li₂ ṭe₃-e-mu liš-kun | |
| 12 | lid-di-nu-u-ni {1}ku-lu-ʾu | |
| 13 | {1}man-nu—ki—{uru}arba-il₃ {lu₂v}BUR.GUL | |
| 14 | is-se-niš lil-lik-u-ni | |
| 15 | šu-nu i-la-ʾi-i | |
| 16 | i-kab-bu-su | |
| 17 | a-di qar-hu la i-qar-ra-hu-ni | |
Sources & licences
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