ABL 0842 (P334587)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0842 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334587 |
| 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/saa01 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:1] o 1o 1–o 1o 1 | To the king, [my lord]: |
| Obverse [1:5] o 22–o 55 | (This is) your servant Aha-lurš[i, your adorer], who daily prays to Bel and Nabû for the life of [the king, his lord]. May Nabû and Marduk bl[ess the king], my lord! |
| Obverse [5:8] o 66–o 88 | Bel and N[abû ...... |
| Reverse [1:2] r 2'2'–r 2'2' | [As to what the king, my lord, wro]te to me: "Come [to my presence in Nisan]!" — |
| Reverse [2:6] r 3'3'–r 6'6' | the work will be fini[shed] by the [...th] of intercalary Adar (XIII); I shall leave Dur-Šarruken on the 5th of extra Adar and shall be in the presence of the ki[ng my lord] even before the month of Nisan (I). |
| Reverse [6:7] r 7'7'–r 7'7' | May Nabû and Marduk [bless] the king, my lord! |
| Reverse [7:14] r 8'8'– | That the king my lord [invited me] to Babylon, that I am going to see Bel and present a votive gift to Bel [on behalf of the king my lord], that I am going to see the face [of the king, my lord] and kiss the ground [before the king, my lord], [that the king, my lord], is going to give me [orders ...... of the king], my lord [......]. |
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}ŠEŠ—lu-ur-⸢ši⸣ [ka-ri-ib-ka] | |
| 3 | ša\p a-na ba-laṭ ZI-MEŠ ša [LUGAL EN-ia] | |
| 4 | UD-mu-us-su {d}EN {d}PA u₂-ṣal-[lu-u] | |
| 5 | {d}AG {d}AMAR.UTU a-na [LUGAL] ⸢EN⸣-ia ⸢lik⸣-[ru-bu] | |
| 6 | d.EN {d}[AG x x x x x]+⸢x x⸣+[x x x x x] | |
| 7 | u₃ ⸢a⸣-[x x x x x x x x x x] | |
| 8 | ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x x x x x x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [x x x x x x x x x x] ⸢x⸣+[x x] | |
| 2' | [ša LUGAL be-li₂ iš-pur]-⸢an⸣-ni ma-⸢a⸣ [ina {iti}BARAG] | |
| 3' | [ina pa-ni-ia] ⸢al⸣-ka a-di [UD 04-KAM₂] | |
| 4' | ⸢ša {iti}DIRI⸣.ŠE du₆-lu ug\d-da\d-[da\d-mar] | |
| 5' | UD 05-KAM₂ {iti}DIRI.ŠE TA@v\m {uru}BAD₃—⸢MAN⸣—[GIN] | |
| 6' | uṣ-ṣa-a a-di\d la {itim}BARAG\d pa-an ⸢LUGAL⸣ [EN-ia a-na-ku] | |
| 7' | {d}AG {d}AMAR.UTU a-na LUGAL be-li₂-ia [lik-ru-bu] | |
| 8' | ša LUGAL be-li₂ a-na KA₂.DINGIR.⸢RA⸣{[ki} iq-ra-an-ni-ni] | |
| 9' | d.EN am\p-mar-u-ni d.⸢EN⸣ [a-na LUGAL be-li₂-ia] | |
| 10' | a-kar-rab-u-ni IGI-⸢MEŠ⸣ [ša LUGAL be-li₂-ia] | |
| 11' | am\p-mar-u-ni kaq-⸢qu⸣-[ru pa-an LUGAL EN-ia] | |
| 12' | a-na-aš₂-ši-iq\d-u-[ni LUGAL be-li₂ ṭe₃-e-mu] | |
| 13' | i-šak-kan-an-ni-[ni x x x x LUGAL] | |
| r.e. | ||
| 14 | be-li₂-⸢ia⸣ [x x x x] | |
Sources & licences
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