ABL 1023 (P334682)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 1023 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334682 |
| 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 [0:14] o 1o 1–o 1414 | [To the king, my lord: your servant, Marduk-šallim-ahhe, the one who blesses you. Good health to the king, my lord. May Aššur, Bel, Nabû, Sin, Šamaš, Ištar of Nineveh, and Ištar of Arbela very g]reatly bless [the king, my] lord. May they give to the king, my lord, lon[g days] and years of physical well-being. |
| Obverse [14:22] o 1515– | This 5th day of Kanun (X) belongs to Talmusu. Nothing has been brought; no one came. Nevertheless for the sake of the life of the king, my lord, [I have performed and p]resented every sac[rifice] before Aššur [and the gods of] the king, my lord. |
| Reverse [4:5] r 55–r 55 | (r 5) (Rest destroyed) |
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}{d}AMAR.UTU—DI—PAB-MEŠ] | |
| 3 | [ka-ri-ib-ka] | |
| 4 | [lu DI-mu a-na LUGAL be-li₂-ia] | |
| 5 | {[d}aš-šur {d}EN {d}AG] | |
| 6 | {[d}30 {d}UTU] | |
| 7 | {[d}15 ša {uru}NINA] | |
| 8 | {[d}15 ša {uru}arba-il₃] | |
| 9 | [a-na LUGAL] be-li₂-[ia] | |
| 10 | [a—dan-niš a]—dan-niš lik-ru-bu | |
| 11 | [UD-MEŠ] ⸢ar⸣-ku-u₂-ti | |
| 12 | MU.AN.NA-MEŠ ⸢ṭu-ub⸣ UZU | |
| 13 | a-na LUGAL be-li₂-ia | |
| 14 | lid-di-nu | |
| 15 | UD 05-KAM an-ni-u₂ ša₂ {iti}AB | |
| 16 | ša {uru}tal-mu-si šu-u₂ | |
| 17 | me-me-ni la na-ṣu-u-ni | |
| r | ||
| 1 | me-me-ni la il-li-ka | |
| 2 | a-na ba-laṭ ZI-MEŠ | |
| 3 | ša LUGAL be-li₂-ia | |
| 4 | {udu}⸢SISKUR-MEŠ⸣ gab-bu | |
| 5 | ina IGI {d}aš-šur | |
| 6 | [u₃ DINGIR-MEŠ ša] LUGAL be-li₂-ia | |
| 7 | [e-ta-pa-aš₂] ⸢at⸣-ti-din | |
| 8 | [x x x x x] ⸢x⸣+[x] | |
| 9 | [x x x x x x x] | |
Sources & licences
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