ABL 0975 (P334653)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0975 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334653 |
| 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 [0:6] o 1o 1–o 66 | To the king, my lord: your servant, Pulu. Good health to the king, my lord. May Nabû and Marduk very greatly bless the king, my lord. |
| Obverse [6:11] o 77–o 1111 | The regular sheep offering which was set before Nabû on the 13th day — its left kidney was small [...]. The king, my lord, should see whatever there is to ... |
| Obverse [11:17] o 1212– | (12) (Break) |
| Reverse [1:2] r 22–r 22 | [......] let them give. |
| Reverse [2:3] r 33–r 33 | [...o]f the king, my lord. |
| Reverse [3:11] r 44–r 1111 | La[te]r on the king, my lord, will say: "Why did you [...]?" [If] the servants o[f the king w]ho are with me would a[ppo]int [......], would not [the ......] the [next] day, "Why did he not send it to the palace?" |
| Reverse [11:18] r 1212–r 1818 | I have now sealed up the left kidney, which is small, and forwarded it to the king, my lord. The scholars should inspect it. (Otherwise) the king would later hear (about it) and say: "Why didn't he send it?" and put the blame on me. |
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}pu-u₂-lu | |
| 3 | lu DI-mu a-na LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 4 | a—dan-niš a—dan-niš | |
| 5 | {d}AG u₃ {d}AMAR.UTU | |
| 6 | a-na LUGAL be-li₂-ia lik-ru-bu | |
| 7 | 01 da-ri-u₂ ša UD 13-KAM₂ | |
| 8 | ina pa-an {d}AG ša-kin-u-ni | |
| 9 | {uzu}BIR KAB TUR-⸢ir⸣ ša ⸢x⸣+[x] | |
| 10 | LUGAL be-li₂ ša LU₂~v mi₃-⸢i-nu⸣ | |
| 11 | ši-i-ti-ni [le]-⸢mur⸣ | |
| 12 | šum-ma [x x x x x]-ni | |
| 13 | šim [x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ | |
| 14 | [x x x x x x x x] | |
| 15 | [x x x x x x x] ⸢dan⸣ | |
| r | ||
| 1 | [x x x x x x x x] | |
| 2 | [x x x x]+⸢x⸣ lid-di-nu | |
| 3 | ⸢x⸣+[x x] ⸢ša⸣ LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 4 | ⸢ur⸣-[ki]-⸢tu⸣ LUGAL be-li₂ | |
| 5 | i-qa-[bi] ⸢ma⸣-a a-na mi-i-ni | |
| 6 | tak-[x x x] ARAD-MEŠ-ni | |
| 7 | ⸢ša⸣ [LUGAL] ⸢ša⸣ is-si-ia | |
| 8 | ta-⸢x⸣+[x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ | |
| 9 | i-⸢pa-qi₂⸣-du ⸢ina⸣ 02 UD-me | |
| 10 | la ki x ma-a a-ta-a | |
| 11 | ina E₂.GAL la iš-pur | |
| 12 | u₂-ma-a {uzu}BIR KAB | |
| 13 | ša TUR-u-ni ak-ta-nak | |
| 14 | a-na LUGAL EN-ia us-se-bi-la | |
| 15 | {lu₂}um-ma-a-ni le-mu-ru | |
| 16 | ur-ki-ti LUGAL be-li₂ | |
| 17 | i-ša₂-am-me ma-a a-ta-a | |
| 18 | la iš-pu-ra a-na hi-ṭi-ia | |
| 19 | i-ša₂-kan | |
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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