ABL 0652 (P334452)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0652 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334452 |
| 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 [0:4] o 1o 1–o 44 | To the king, my lord: your [servant] Adad-šumu-uṣur. Good health to the king, my lord! [May] Nabû and Marduk bless the king, my lord! |
| Obverse [4:11] o 55–o 1111 | As to what the king, my lord, wrote to me: "Is it good for Aššur-mukin-paleya to come up into my presence, and Sin-per'u-ukin to come up with him? Can the latter join him? They are (now) separated" — |
| Obverse [11:18] o 1212– | let them come up together: Iyyar (II) is a good month, it has numerous good days. The foot of the god has gone to rest; it is (really) very auspicious to go (now) to the king, my lord. |
| Bottom [0:12] b.e. 18b.e. 18– | The king, my lord, is the chosen one of the great gods; the shadow of the king, my lord, is pleasant for everything. Let them come up and run around in the sweet and pleasant shadow of the king, my lord. May the king, my lord, see them prosper, and may their grandchildren in like manner run around in the presence of the king, my lord! |
| Reverse [8:12] r 99–r 1212 | The well-known proverb says: "Man is a shadow of god". [But] is man a shadow of man too? The king is the perfect likeness of the god. |
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 be-li₂-ia | |
| 2 | [ARAD]-ka {1}{d}IM—MU—PAB | |
| 3 | [lu]-u DI-mu a-na LUGAL EN-ia₂ | |
| 4 | {[d]}AG {d}AMAR.UTU ana LUGAL EN-ia₂ | |
| 5 | [lik]-ru-bu ša LUGAL be-li₂ | |
| 6 | [iš]-pur-an-ni ma ṭa-ba-a | |
| 7 | [ma] {1}aš-šur—GIN—BALA-MEŠ-ia | |
| 8 | [a]-⸢na⸣ pa-⸢ni-ia⸣ le-li-ia | |
| 9 | [ma {1}{d]}30—NUNUZ—⸢GIN⸣-in is-se-šu₂ | |
| 10 | [le]-li-[a] šu-u₂ is-sa-he-iš | |
| 11 | ma [li]-zi-iz-zi par-su | |
| 12 | ⸢is⸣-[sa]-he-iš-ma le-lu-u-ni | |
| 13 | {⸢iti}GUD⸣ ur-hu ṭa-a-bu šu-u | |
| 14 | UD-MEŠ-šu₂ DUG₃.GA-MEŠ ma-aʾ-da | |
| 15 | GIR₃.2 DINGIR ta-at-tu-ah | |
| 16 | ṭa-a-ba a—dan-niš ana e-le-e | |
| 17 | ina pa-an LUGAL be-li₂-ia | |
| b.e. | ||
| 18 | LUGAL be-li₂ am-ru | |
| 19 | ša DINGIR-MEŠ GAL-MEŠ šu-u | |
| 20 | GIŠ.MI ša₂ LUGAL EN-ia₂ | |
| r | ||
| 1 | ina UGU gab-bi de-iq | |
| 2 | šu-nu le-e-lu-u-ni | |
| 3 | ina GIŠ.MI DUG₃.GA da-an-qi | |
| 4 | ša LUGAL EN-ia₂ li-du-lu | |
| 5 | ne₂-me-el-šu₂-nu LUGAL be-li₂ | |
| 6 | le-e-mur DUMU—DUMU-MEŠ-šu₂-nu DUMU—DUMU-MEŠ-šu₂-nu | |
| 7 | ki-i an-ni-im-ma ina pa-an | |
| 8 | LUGAL be-li₂-ia li-du-lu | |
| 9 | ⸢ša⸣ qa-bu-u-ni am-me-u₂ | |
| 10 | ⸢ma⸣-a GIŠ.MI DINGIR a-me-lu | |
| 11 | [u] GIŠ.MI {lu₂}a-me-le-e | |
| 12 | [a]-me-lu LUGAL šu-u₂ | |
| 13 | ⸢kal⸣ mu-uš-šu-li ša₂ DINGIR | |
Sources & licences
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