ABL 0692 (P334490)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0692 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334490 |
| 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 [0:8] o 1o 1–o 88 | [To the k]ing, [our] lord: your [servants] Balasî and [Nabû]-ahhe-eriba. [Good he]alth to the king, our [lord]! [May] Nabû and Marduk bless the king, our lord! |
| Obverse [8:22] o 99– | [Concer]ning the planet Mercury [about which] the king, our lord, [wr]ote to us: "I have heard it [can be seen in B]abylon" — [he who] wrote (this) to the king, our [lord], may really have observed it. His eye, however, must have fallen on it. |
| Reverse [6:12] r 77–r 1212 | We ourselves have kept watch (but) we have not observed it. [On]e day it might be too early, [anoth]er day it might lie flat (in the horizon). [To see it], our [e]yes sho[uld] (literally) [have f]allen on it. |
| Reverse [12:13] r 1313–r 1313 | (r 13) (Remainder lost) |
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-[ni] | |
| 2 | [ARAD-MEŠ]-ka {1}ba-la-si-⸢i⸣ | |
| 3 | {1}{d}PA]—PAB-MEŠ—SU | |
| 4 | [lu] ⸢DI⸣-mu a-na LUGAL | |
| 5 | [EN]-ni | |
| 6 | {[d]}PA {d}AMAR.UTU | |
| 7 | [a]-⸢na⸣ LUGAL EN-ni | |
| 8 | [lik]-ru-bu | |
| 9 | [ina] ⸢UGU⸣ {mul}UDU.IDIM.GUD.UD | |
| 10 | [ša] LUGAL EN-ni | |
| 11 | [iš]-pur-an-na-ši-ni | |
| 12 | [ma-a] ⸢šu⸣-u₂ | |
| b.e. | ||
| 13 | [ina] ⸢KA₂⸣.DINGIR.RA | |
| 14 | [IGI-mar] ⸢as⸣-se-me | |
| r | ||
| 1 | [ša] a-na LUGAL | |
| 2 | [EN]-ni iš-pur-an-ni | |
| 3 | [ina] ket-ti-šu₂ | |
| 4 | [is]—su-ri e-ta-mar | |
| 5 | ⸢IGI⸣.2-šu₂ ina UGU-hi | |
| 6 | ⸢ta⸣-tu-qut | |
| 7 | [a]-ni-nu ni-ta-ṣar | |
| 8 | ⸢la⸣ ne₂-mu-ur | |
| 9 | 01-⸢en⸣ UD-mu lu ha-ri-ip | |
| 10 | 01-⸢en⸣ UD-mu lu na-si-ki | |
| 11 | [e]-ni-in-ni | |
| 12 | [ina] ⸢UGU⸣-hi ⸢lu ta⸣-qut | |
| 13 | [x x x] ⸢x x⸣ [x x] | |
| r.e. | ||
| 14 | [x x x x] ⸢x⸣ [x x] | |
| 15 | [x x x x]-me [o] | |
Sources & licences
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