ABL 1060 (P334706)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 1060 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334706 |
| 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 [0:8] o 1o 1–o 88 | [To the kin]g, my lord: [your servant], Pulu. The best of health to the king, my lord. May Sin, Nabû, and Marduk [bles]s the king, my lord. May Mullissu, the merciful mother, look joyfully with her pure glance upon the king, my lord. May she gra[nt] victory and strength to the king of kings, my lord. |
| Obverse [8:11] o 99– | From the [...] of your [ki]ngship [...] |
| Reverse [0:1] r 1'1'–r 1'1' | let [......] |
| Reverse [1:2] r 2'2'–r 2'2' | wat[ch ......] |
| Reverse [2:3] r 3'3'–r 3'3' | let him st[and ......] |
| Reverse [4:5] r 5'5'–r 5'5' | [...] is the watch [of ...] |
| Reverse [5:6] r 6'6'–r 6'6' | I will also keep [watch] ... for the king, my lord |
| Reverse [6:7] r 7'7'–r 7'7' | [...] ... to [...] ... |
| Reverse [8:9] r 9'9'–r 9'9' | Now let them do whatever is acceptable to the king, 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] be-li₂-ia | |
| 2 | [ARAD-ka] {1}pu-u₂-lu | |
| 3 | [lu] šul-mu a-na LUGAL EN-ia a—dan-niš | |
| 4 | {d}30 {d}AG u₃ {d}AMAR.UTU a-na LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 5 | [lik-ru]-bu {d}NIN.LIL₂ um-mu re-mi-ni-tum | |
| 6 | [ni]-iš—IGI.2-MEŠ-ša₂ [ni]-iš—IGI.2-MEŠ-ša₂ KUG-MEŠ a-na LUGAL LUGAL-MEŠ EN-ia | |
| 7 | ha-diš lu-u tap-pi-lis li-i-tu da-na-nu | |
| 8 | [a]-na LUGAL LUGAL-MEŠ-ni EN-ia lu taš-ru-[uk] | |
| 9 | TA ⸢UGU x x x⸣ LUGAL-ti-ka šu-[x x] | |
| 10 | [x x x x x x x x x x x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | lu [x x x x x x x x x] | |
| 2' | ma-ṣar-[x x x x x x x x] | |
| 3' | li-iṣ-⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x x]-ti | |
| 4' | [x x]-ti ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x x]-ib | |
| 5' | [x x]+⸢x⸣ ma-ṣar-tu ⸢x⸣+[x]+⸢x⸣+[x x x]+⸢x⸣ ši-i | |
| 6' | [x x]+⸢x⸣ a-na-ṣar it-[x]+⸢x⸣ a-na LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 7' | [x x]-⸢ta⸣-di a-na [x x x] lu-di | |
| 8' | [x x] šar ka lu u₂ | |
| 9' | u₂-ma-a ki-i ša ina IGI LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 10' | ma-hir-u-ni le-pu-šu | |
Sources & licences
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