ABL 0948 (P334639)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0948 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334639 |
| 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/saa16 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:4] o 1o 1–o 44 | To the crown prince, my lord: your servant Šumaya. Good health to the crown prince, my lord! May Nabû and Marduk bless the crown prince, my lord. |
| Obverse [4:8] o 55–o 88 | 1,000 (homers) of barley from the king were at my father's disposal. Now I have given 400 (homers) of barley from it, 600 (homers) of barley remain at my disposal. |
| Reverse [0:4] r 1'1'–r 4'4' | [......] I have appealed to the crown prince, my lord. May the crown prince, my lord, not leave me in the lurch, (but) do something. |
| Reverse [4:10] r 5'5'– | Just as today the emissaries of all the countries pass [bef]ore your father, so [may] they pass before the crown prince, [m]y lo[rd], for a thousand years. |
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 DUMU—LUGAL DUMU—LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 2 | ARAD-ka {1}šu-ma-a.a | |
| 3 | lu-u šul-mu a-na DUMU—LUGAL DUMU—LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 4 | {d}AG u {d}AMAR.UTU a-na DUMU—LUGAL DUMU—LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 5 | lik-ru-bu 01 lim {še}PAD-MEŠ ša LUGAL | |
| 6 | ina pa-an AD-ia u₂-ma-a a-na-ku | |
| 7 | 04 me {še}PAD-MEŠ TA@v ŠA₃-bi at-ti-din | |
| 8 | 06 me {še}PAD-MEŠ ina pa-ni-ia re-e-ha-at | |
| r | ||
| 1' | nu-[x x x]-an a-na DUMU—LUGAL DUMU—LUGAL | |
| 2' | EN-ia at-ta-har DUMU—LUGAL DUMU—LUGAL be-li₂ | |
| 3' | lu la u₂-ra-man-ni | |
| 4' | me-me-e-ni le-e-pu-uš | |
| 5' | [ki]-i ša UD-mu an-ni-u₂ | |
| 6' | {[lu₂]}MAH-MEŠ-ni ša KUR.KUR gab-bu | |
| 7' | [ina pa]-an AD-ka e-ti-qu-u-ni | |
| 8' | [ki]-⸢i⸣ an-ni-im-ma ina pa-an DUMU—MAN DUMU—MAN | |
| r.e. | ||
| 9 | ⸢EN-ia⸣ 01 lim MU.AN.NA-MEŠ | |
| 10 | [o le]-e-ti-qu | |
Sources & licences
- Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative · CDLI: reuse of catalogue/transliteration data with citation of CDLI; images restricted (not fetched) · Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI), https://cdli.earth/ ; cite CDLI and the P-number
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