ABL 0577 (P334396)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0577 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334396 |
| 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/saa01 · 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 Ṭab-ṣill-Ešarra. Good health to the king, my lord! May Aššur and] Mullissu bless the king, my lord! |
| Obverse [5:11] o 66–o 1111 | As to the deceased household manager of the Aššur temple of whom I said in the presence of the king my lord: "He has a son and a nephew," |
| Obverse [11:21] o 1212– | at this very moment his son, his nephew, and Simanai son of Nabû-balliṭ, cousin of Aššur-na'id the second priest, are on their way to the king, my lord. |
| Reverse [5:9] r 66–r 99 | Let the king, my lord, appoint the one who is acceptable to 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}DUG₃.GA—ṣil—E₂.ŠAR₂.RA] | |
| 3 | [lu DI-mu a-na LUGAL EN-ia₂] | |
| 4 | [aš-šur] {d}NIN.LIL₂ a-na\t LUGAL | |
| 5 | EN-ia lik-ru-bu | |
| 6 | ina UGU {lu₂v}ša₂—UGU—E₂ ša E₂—aš-⸢šur⸣ | |
| 7 | ša me-e-tu-ni | |
| 8 | ša ina pa-an LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 9 | a-qa-bu-u-ni | |
| 10 | mu-ku {lu₂}DUMU-šu₂ | |
| 11 | DUMU—ŠEŠ-šu₂ DUMU—ŠEŠ-šu₂ DUMU—ŠEŠ-šu₂ i-ba-ši | |
| 12 | an-nu-rig\t {lu₂}DUMU-šu₂ | |
| 13 | DUMU—ŠEŠ-šu₂ DUMU—ŠEŠ-šu₂ DUMU—ŠEŠ-šu₂ | |
| 14 | u₃ {1}⸢SIG₄⸣-a.a | |
| 15 | DUMU {1}{d}PA—bal-liṭ | |
| r | ||
| 1 | DUMU—ŠEŠ—AD-šu₂ DUMU—ŠEŠ—AD-šu₂ DUMU—ŠEŠ—AD-šu₂ DUMU—ŠEŠ—AD-šu₂ DUMU—ŠEŠ—AD-šu₂ | |
| 2 | ša {1}aš-šur—I {lu₂v}SANGA 02-u | |
| 3 | i-si-šu₂-nu | |
| 4 | ina pa-an LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 5 | i-tal-ku-ni | |
| 6 | man-nu ša ina pa-an LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 7 | ma-hi-ir-u-ni | |
| 8 | LUGAL ⸢be-li₂ lip-qi⸣-di | |
| 9 | ⸢x⸣+[x x] ⸢x⸣ [x x]+⸢x⸣ | |
Sources & licences
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