ABL 0628 (P334433)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0628 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334433 |
| 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/saa16 · 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 Nabû-ra'im]-nišešu. [Good health t]o the king, my lord! May [Nabû and] Marduk bless [the ki]ng, my lord. |
| Obverse [5:11] o 66–o 1111 | We shall write the name of the king, my lord, on the foundation stone which we laid in the foundations of the city wall of Tarbiṣu. Let the king, my lord, write me what we should write (on it) and we shall write accordingly. |
| Obverse [11:17] o 1212–o 1717 | And as to what the king, my lord, wrote to me via Zabinu: "Why do the limestone layers not go one after another? It is your own [......]" |
| Reverse [0:3] r 1'1'–r 3'3' | "[...... Why] has he put [crosses] on them?" — |
| Reverse [3:8] r 4'4'–r 8'8' | At [the time when] he (= the king) was the crown prince, Nabû-šarrani brought them to the king into the Rear Palace, and the crosses were put on them (at that time). |
| Reverse [8:14] r 9'9'–r 14'14' | Now Šulmu-mati has gone and started working on the palace. I am writing to the king, my lord, only as a reminder. [The k]ing, my lord, [may a]ct as he deems best. |
Transliteration (ATF)
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| Line | ATF | Machine English (draft) |
|---|---|---|
| o | ||
| 1 | [a-na LUGAL EN-ia] | |
| 2 | [ARAD-ka {1}{d}PA—AG₂]—UN-MEŠ-šu₂ | |
| 3 | [lu-u DI-mu a]-⸢na⸣ LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 4 | {[d}PA u₃] {d}AMAR.UTU | |
| 5 | [a-na] ⸢LUGAL⸣ be-li₂-ia lik-ru-bu | |
| 6 | {na₄}pu-u-lu ša ina ŠA₃ uš-še ša BAD₃ | |
| 7 | ša {uru}tar-bi-ṣi ni-ik-ru-ru-u-ni | |
| 8 | šu-mu ša LUGAL be-li₂-ia ina UGU-hi ni-iš-ṭur | |
| 9 | ki-i ša ni-šaṭ-ṭa-ru-u-ni | |
| 10 | LUGAL be-li₂ liš-pu-ra | |
| 11 | i-na pi-it-te ni-iš-ṭur | |
| 12 | u₃ ša LUGAL be-li₂ | |
| 13 | i-na ŠU.2 {1}za-bi-ni iš-pur-an-ni | |
| 14 | ma-a a-ta-a ti-ik-pi ša {na₄}pu-u-li | |
| 15 | 01-en id—da-at id—da-at ša₂-ni-e | |
| 16 | la il-lak | |
| 17 | ma-a ⸢ša⸣ ra-⸢mi₃⸣-ni-ka šu-u | |
| r | ||
| 1' | ⸢ma⸣-[a x x x x x x x] | |
| 2' | ma-[a x x x x x x x x] | |
| 3' | ma-a [x x x x x x x x] | |
| 4' | iš-kun-šu₂-nu ina [ŠA₃ UD-me] ⸢ša⸣ | |
| 5' | DUMU—LUGAL DUMU—LUGAL šu-⸢tu⸣-u-ni {1}{d}PA—MAN-a-ni | |
| 6' | ina E₂—ku-tal-li E₂—ku-tal-li ina pa-an LUGAL | |
| 7' | us-se-rib-šu₂-nu is-pi-lu-rat | |
| 8' | is-sak-nu-šu-nu | |
| 9' | u₂-ma-a {1}DI-mu—KUR it-ta-lak | |
| 10' | A₂.2-šu₂ ina UGU E₂ is-sa-kan | |
| 11' | a-na ša-ah-su-si šu-u | |
| 12' | a-na LUGAL be-li₂-ia | |
| 13' | as-sap-ra | |
| 14' | ⸢LUGAL⸣ be-li₂ ki-i ša i-la-u₂-ni | |
| 15' | [le]-pu-uš | |
Sources & licences
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