ABL 0812 (P334566)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0812 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334566 |
| 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/saa13 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:7] o 1o 1–o 77 | To the king, my lord: your servant, Sin-na'di, mayor of the Inner City. May Aššur and [Ešarra] bless the king, my lord. May they grant you long days and an everlasting throne. |
| Obverse [7:8] o 88–o 88 | The king [......] |
| Obverse [8:9] o 99–o 99 | who [......] |
| Obverse [10:11] o 1111–o 1111 | of [...] ... |
| Obverse [11:12] o 1212–o 1212 | [......] strong |
| Obverse [13:14] o 1414–o 1414 | [......] Now |
| Reverse [2:3] r 33–r 33 | t[o...] the king, my lord |
| Reverse [3:4] r 44–r 44 | I have wr[itten. Whether in] the city or |
| Reverse [4:5] r 55–r 55 | in [......] |
| Reverse [6:8] r 77–r 88 | May the king, my lord, write to the people of the Inner City. |
| Reverse [8:12] r 99–r 1212 | Šep-Aššur-aṣbat, the goldsmith, a servant of the king attending to the (offering) pipes of Aššur and of the king — |
| Reverse [12:20] r 1313– | Bel-naṣir has now removed him from (service) under Aššur and the king, saying: "He is my servant." The paritu-official working for Bel-naṣir pushed the case. |
| Edge [0:2] e. 1e. 1–e. 22 | Thirty-one 'brothers' have released him from the 'locks' of Aššur. |
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}30—I | |
| 3 | {lu₂}ha-za-nu ša {uru}ŠA₃—URU | |
| 4 | aš-šur u₃ [E₂.ŠAR₂.RA] a-na LUGAL be-li₂-ia | |
| 5 | lik-ru-bu UD-mu ar-ku-u-te | |
| 6 | {giš}GU.ZA a-na da-ra-a-te | |
| 7 | li-di-nu-ni-ka | |
| 8 | LUGAL [x x x] du [x x] ak | |
| 9 | ša [x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ | |
| 10 | ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ | |
| 11 | ša [x x x x] i-[x]-lu-u₂ | |
| 12 | gi [x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ dan-nu | |
| 13 | ⸢ta⸣ [x x x x x x x]-a-lu | |
| 14 | ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x x] u₂-ma-a | |
| 15 | du-[x x x x x x]-hur | |
| r | ||
| 1 | ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x x x x] | |
| 2 | ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x x x x] | |
| 3 | a-⸢na⸣ [x x x x] LUGAL be-li₂-ia₂ | |
| 4 | a-sa-[ap-ra x x] URU lu | |
| 5 | ina ŠA₃ [x x x x] TA@v | |
| 6 | i-⸢x⸣+[x x x x]+⸢x⸣ ku | |
| 7 | LUGAL be-li₂ a-na {uru}ŠA₃—URU-a-a | |
| 8 | liš-pu-ra | |
| 9 | {1}GIR₃.2—aš-šur—DIB-bat {lu₂}SIMUG.KUG.GI | |
| 10 | ur-du ša LUGAL ina UGU | |
| 11 | {giš}ra-ṭa-a-ni ša aš-šur | |
| 12 | ša LUGAL kam-mu-su | |
| 13 | u₂-ma-a {1}{d}EN—PAB-ir | |
| 14 | TA@v KI.TA aš-šur LUGAL | |
| 15 | u₂-še-ṣa ma-a ur-di šu-u | |
| 16 | {lu₂}pa-ri-tu | |
| 17 | ša ina pa-na-at | |
| 18 | {d}EN—PAB-ir di-nu | |
| 19 | i-di-i-pi | |
| e. | ||
| 1 | 31 ŠEŠ-ME-e TA@v ŠA₃ | |
| 2 | {giš}si-ku-ru ša aš-šur ip-ta-; | |
Sources & licences
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