ABL 0861 (P334593)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0861 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334593 |
| 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 [0:5] o 1o 1–o 55 | [To the king, my lord: your servant, NN]. G[ood health t]o the king, [my] lord. May Marduk and Zarpanitu bless the king, my lord. |
| Obverse [5:15] o 66– | The order came straight from the king, my lord's mouth: "Rašil [will give you] the wooden [...]." Until no[w] no one has issued an order, and he has not given (any) to me. |
| Reverse [0:5] r 1r 1–r 55 | May the king, my lord, not [forsake me]! Let the king, my lord, [send] a royal b[odyguard ...] outs[ide ...] (and) [let] the king, my lord, [...] me. |
| Reverse [5:9] r 66–r 99 | Now the ki[ng], my [lo]rd, raised me to heaven. Why, (then), from before the feet [of the king], my lord, [......]. |
| Reverse [9:13] r 1010– | (r 10) (Break) |
| Edge [0:1] e. 1e. 1–e. 1e. 1 | If I [cannot see] the face of the king, my lord, why should I live? |
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}x x x] | |
| 3 | lu-[u DI-mu a]-⸢na⸣ MAN EN-[ia] | |
| 4 | {d}AMAR.UTU {d}zar-pa-ni-tum | |
| 5 | a-na LUGAL EN-ia₂ lik-ru-bu | |
| 6 | TA@v pi-i ša ⸢LUGAL⸣ | |
| 7 | EN-ia₂ it-tu-⸢ṣi⸣ | |
| 8 | ma-a {giš}za-⸢x⸣+[x x x] | |
| 9 | {1}TUK-ši—DINGIR [id-da-nak-ka] | |
| 10 | a-da-ka-⸢an⸣-[ni] | |
| 11 | me-me-ni ⸢ṭe₃⸣-[e-mu] | |
| b.e. | ||
| 12 | la iš-kun | |
| 13 | la id-di-na | |
| r | ||
| 1 | LUGAL be-li₂ | |
| 2 | lu la ⸢u₂⸣-[ra-man-ni] | |
| 3 | {lu₂v}⸢qur⸣-[bu-ti liš-pu-ra] | |
| 4 | qa-an-[ni x x x] | |
| 5 | LUGAL be-li₂ [x x x]-ni | |
| 6 | u₂-ma-a ⸢LUGAL⸣ [be]-li₂ | |
| 7 | a-na AN-e u₂-se-la-a | |
| 8 | a-ta-a TA@v IGI GIR₃.2-[MEŠ] | |
| 9 | [ša LUGAL] EN-ia₂ | |
| 10 | [x x x x]+⸢x x⸣+[x x] | |
| 11 | [x x x x x]+⸢x x⸣+[x x] | |
| 12 | [x x x x x x x] | |
| e. | ||
| 1 | a—ki-ma a—ki-ma pa-an ša MAN EN-⸢ia⸣ [x x] | |
| 2 | a-na mi-i-ni a-bal-laṭ | |
Sources & licences
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