ABL 0876 (P334603)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Sippar-Yahrurum · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0876 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334603 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | Letter |
| Find spot | Sippar-Yahrurum (mod. Tell Abu Habbah) |
| Coordinates | 33.0605, 44.2552 |
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], Marduk-[...]. [Good health] to the ki[ng, my lord.] May [Aššur,] Sin, [Šamaš, Nabû], and Mar[duk] very greatly bless the king, [my lord]. |
| Obverse [7:19] o 88– | The king, my lord, knows that Ištar of Arbela is powerful. She has gone up to the divine 'party' in Arbela. I am holding a horse for the chief victualler, but he refuses to accept it from me, [nor will he allow] me to transfer it. |
| Reverse [0:1] r 1r 1–r 1r 1 | [...] is passing by on account of it. |
| Reverse [1:8] r 22–r 88 | They should take a horse from the palace and give me a sealed order concerning the chief victualler (to the effect) that he should give me sacrificial bread, lest Ištar kill me. |
| Reverse [8:12] r 99–r 1212 | They have made me slip from the grasp of the king, my lord. (But) [if] I am still living, I will revere the [ki]ng, 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 EN-ia] | |
| 2 | [ARAD-ka {1}{d}AMAR.UTU—[x x] | |
| 3 | [lu DI-mu] a-na ⸢LUGAL⸣ [EN-ia] | |
| 4 | [aš-šur {d]}30 {⸢d⸣}[UTU] | |
| 5 | {[d}PA {d]}⸢AMAR⸣.[UTU] | |
| 6 | a-na LUGAL [EN-ia] | |
| 7 | a—dan-niš lik-ru-bu | |
| 8 | LUGAL be-li₂ u₂-⸢da⸣ | |
| 9 | ki-i {d}15 ša₂ {uru}arba-il₃ | |
| 10 | dan-na-at-u₂-ni | |
| 11 | qa-ri-tu ina {uru}arba-il₃ | |
| 12 | te-ta-li-a | |
| 13 | a-na {lu₂}GAL—da-ni-bat {lu₂}GAL—da-ni-bat | |
| 14 | {anše}KUR.RA u₂-ka-la | |
| 15 | ⸢la⸣ im-ma-gur₂ | |
| 16 | [la] ⸢i⸣-ma-har-an-ni | |
| b.e. | ||
| 17 | [la u₂-še]-taq-an-ni | |
| r | ||
| 1 | [x x] ina UGU-hi e-te-qi | |
| 2 | {anše}KUR.RA ina E₂.GAL | |
| 3 | liš-ši-u₂ | |
| 4 | un-qu ina UGU {lu₂}GAL—da-ni-bat {lu₂}GAL—da-ni-bat | |
| 5 | lid-di-nu-u-ni | |
| 6 | lih-mu lid-di-na | |
| 7 | ku-um {d}15 | |
| 8 | ta-du-kan-ni-ni | |
| 9 | ⸢TA@v⸣ ŠU.2 LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 10 | [u₂]-⸢se⸣-lu-u₂-ni | |
| 11 | [ki-ma] bal-ṭa-ku | |
| 12 | ⸢LUGAL⸣ be-li₂ | |
| 13 | ⸢la⸣-ap-⸢lah₃⸣ | |
Sources & licences
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