ABL 0688 (P334486)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0688 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334486 |
| 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 Balasî. Good health to the king, my lord! May Nabû and Marduk bless the king, [my lord]. |
| Obverse [4:19] o 55– | Concerning the tab[let] of Šumma izbu [about which] the king, my lord, wrote to me: "Look (at it)! [Who would] write [...] in Šumma izbu?" — there is a particular tablet [in] which the [...]s are written, and I am now sending it to the king. The king should have a look. Maybe the scribe who reads to the king did not understand. |
| Reverse [0:9] r 1r 1–r 99 | Šumma izbu is difficult to interpret. The first time that I come before the king, my lord, I shall (personally) show, with this tablet that I am sending to the king, my lord, how the omen is written. |
| Reverse [9:13] r 1010–r 1313 | Really, [the one] who has [not] had (the meaning) pointed out to him cannot possibly understand it. |
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}ba-la-si-i | |
| 3 | lu-u DI-mu a-na LUGAL EN-[ia] | |
| 4 | {d}PA {d}AMAR.UTU a-na LUGAL [EN-ia] | |
| 5 | lik-ru-bu ina UGU ⸢ṭup⸣-[pi] | |
| 6 | ša BE—iz-[bi ša] ⸢LUGAL be-li₂⸣ | |
| 7 | iš-pur-an-ni ma-a ⸢a⸣-[mur] | |
| 8 | ina ŠA₃ BE—iz-⸢bi⸣ e ⸢x⸣+[x man-nu] | |
| 9 | i-šaṭ-ṭar 01-en šu-[u₂] | |
| 10 | ṭup-pu ša ⸢x x x⸣+[x ina ŠA₃]-⸢bi⸣ | |
| 11 | ša₂-aṭ-ṭa-ra-a-ni | |
| 12 | an-nu-rig a-na LUGAL | |
| 13 | us-se-bi-la | |
| 14 | LUGAL le-mu-ur | |
| 15 | is—su-ri {lu₂}A.BA | |
| 16 | ša₂ ina IGI LUGAL i-sa-⸢as⸣-[su-u-ni] | |
| b.e. | ||
| 17 | la ih-ki-⸢im⸣ | |
| r | ||
| 1 | BE—iz-⸢bu⸣ da-ʾa-[na] | |
| 2 | a-⸢na pa⸣-ra-si [o] | |
| 3 | a-na 01-en UD-mu | |
| 4 | ⸢ki-ma⸣ ina IGI LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 5 | i-tar-ba ina ŠA₃ ṭup-pi | |
| 6 | an-ni-i-e ša a-na | |
| 7 | LUGAL EN-ia u₂-še-bi-la-an-ni | |
| 8 | ina ŠA₃-bi šu-mu | |
| 9 | ki-i ša₂-ṭir-u-ni | |
| 10 | u₂-kal-lam ket-tu₂ | |
| 11 | [ša] u₂-ba-nu ina pa-na-tu-uš-šu₂ | |
| 12 | [la] tal-li-ku-u-ni | |
| 13 | ⸢la⸣-mu-qa-a-šu₂ ⸢la⸣-mu-qa-a-šu₂ | |
| 14 | la i-ha-ak-ki-im | |
Sources & licences
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