ABL 0971 (P334651)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0971 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334651 |
| 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 [0:11] o 1o 1–o 1111 | [To the king, my lord: your servant, Urdu-Nabû. Good health to the king, my lord. May Aššur, Sin, Šamaš, Marduk, Zarpanitu, Nabû, Tašmetu, Ištar of Nineveh, and Ištar of Arbela — these great gods who love your kingship] — [allow] the king, my lord, to live [100 year]s. May they grant the king, my lord, the satisfaction of old age, extreme old age. |
| Obverse [11:15] o 1212–o 1515 | [Concernin]g the offerings about which the king, (my) lord, wrote to me, saying: "Be on the alert! Let there be nothing lacking," [every]thing is in very good order. The king, my lord, can be glad. |
| Obverse [15:27] o 1616– | [Nob]lemen of Babylon and of Borsippa have come to greet the king, my lord, saying: "It is the festival of Babylon. How do we intercalate? We would like to move on, enter (Babylon) and perform sacrifices [be]fore Bel." [Wh]at is it that the king, (my) lord, commands? |
| Reverse [4:7] r 55–r 77 | (As for) Marduk-zeru-ibni, the grandson of Eṭeru, [the king], my [lo]rd, knows him. He is a clergyman, the [grandso]n of a clergyman. He says: "Let me enter and set out the regular offerings." |
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}ARAD—{d}PA] | |
| 3 | [lu-u DI-mu a-na LUGAL EN-ia₂] | |
| 4 | [aš-šur {d}30 {d}UTU {d}AMAR.UTU] | |
| 5 | {[d}zar-pa-ni-tum {d}PA {d}taš-me-tum] | |
| 6 | {[d}15 ša {uru}NINA {d}15 ša {uru}arba-il₃] | |
| 7 | [DINGIR-MEŠ an-nu-u-te GAL-MEŠ] | |
| 8 | [ra-i-mu-te LUGAL-ti-ka] | |
| 9 | 01 me MU].AN.NA-MEŠ a-na LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 10 | [lu]-⸢bal⸣-li-ṭu ši-bu-ti lit-tu-tu | |
| 11 | [a-na] LUGAL EN-ia lu-šab-bi-u | |
| 12 | [ina] ⸢UGU⸣ {udu}SISKUR-MEŠ ša LUGAL EN iš-pur-an-ni | |
| 13 | [ma-a] lu et-ka-ku-nu LAL-e lu la-aš₂-šu | |
| 14 | [gab]-bu de-ii-qi a—dan-niš | |
| 15 | [ŠA₃]-bu ša LUGAL EN-ia lu DUG₃.GA-šu₂ | |
| 16 | [DUMU]-MEŠ—ba-ne₂-e [DUMU]-MEŠ—ba-ne₂-e ša KA₂.DINGIR{ki} | |
| 17 | [DUMU]-MEŠ—ba-ne₂-e [DUMU]-MEŠ—ba-ne₂-e ša BAR₂.SIPA{ki} | |
| 18 | [a]-⸢na⸣ šul-me ša LUGAL EN-ia | |
| b.e. | ||
| 19 | [i]-tal-ku-u₂-ni | |
| 20 | ma-a i-si-nu ša KA₂.DINGIR{ki} | |
| 21 | šu-u₂ | |
| r | ||
| 1 | ma-a a-ke-e ni-id-ru-ur ne₂-ti-iq | |
| 2 | ma-a ne₂-ru-ub {udu}SISKUR-MEŠ | |
| 3 | [ina] IGI {d}EN ne₂-pu-uš | |
| 4 | [mi]-i-nu ša LUGAL EN i-qab-bu-ni | |
| 5 | {1}{⸢d⸣}ŠU₂—NUMUN—DU₃ DUMU—DUMU DUMU—DUMU ša {1}e-ṭe-ri | |
| 6 | [LUGAL be]-li₂ u₂-da-šu₂ TU—E₂ TU—E₂ | |
| 7 | [DUMU]—⸢DUMU⸣ [DUMU]—⸢DUMU⸣ TU—E₂ TU—E₂ šu-u ma-a le-ru-ub | |
| 8 | [ma-a] ⸢gi⸣-nu-u la-aš₂-kun | |
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