ABL 1250 (P334818)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 1250 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334818 |
| 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 [0:6] o 1o 1–o 66 | To the king, my lord: your servant Nabû-ze[r-ket]ti-lešir, the [overseer of white frit]. Good health to the king, my lord! [May] Aššur, Bel and [Šamaš] and Nabû [bless the king, my lord]. |
| Obverse [10:11] o 1111–o 1111 | [......](-)Aššur |
| Obverse [12:13] o 1313–o 1313 | [ga]ve [...] to [...] |
| Obverse [13:15] o 1414–o 1515 | [......] mina(s) |
| Obverse [15:16] o 1616–o 1616 | [... for] my [wo]rk |
| Reverse [0:6] r 1r 1–r 66 | May [the king, my lord], appoint Marduk-šarru-uṣur [...], (and) may he do [......] with m[e]. Now the [...] is not doing justice (to [me]) (and) does not obey the orders of the king, (but) is seeking favour in the eyes of the governors. |
| Reverse [6:12] r 77–r 1212 | Hear me, O king, my lord! They have right now turned upside down the justice which your father did (and) the order that he gave. And I (alone) out of the entire house of my father am bounding about like a dog. |
| Reverse [12:16] r 1313–r 1616 | Let me keep vigil and watch for the king, my lord, on my own. The king is the bulwark of the weak one. Let the king, my lord, do as he pleases. |
| Reverse [16:21] r 1717–r 2121 | Whoever you are, O scribe, who are reading (this letter), do not hide it from the king, your lord! Speak for me before the king, so Bel (and) Nabû may speak for you before the king. |
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-li-ia | |
| 2 | ARAD-ka {1}{⸢d}PA—NUMUN—GIN—GIŠ⸣ | |
| 3 | {lu₂}[ša₂—UGU—hu-luh-hi] | |
| 4 | ⸢lu⸣-u DI-⸢mu⸣ a-na ⸢LUGAL EN⸣-ia₂ | |
| 5 | aš-šur {d}EN u {d}[UTU] u {d}⸢PA⸣ | |
| 6 | [x x x x x x x x x] | |
| 7 | [x x x x x x x x]-ti | |
| 8 | [x x x x x x x x x] | |
| 9 | [x x x x x x x x x] | |
| 10 | [x x x x x x x x x] | |
| 11 | [x x x x x x x x] aš-šur | |
| 12 | [x x x x x x x x]-ši | |
| 13 | a-na [x x x x x x]-din | |
| 14 | [x x x x x x x] MA.NA | |
| 15 | [x x x x x x x]-di | |
| 16 | [x x x] ⸢dul⸣-li-ia | |
| 17 | [x x x x x x x x x] | |
| 18 | [x x x x x x x x x] | |
| 19 | [x x x x x x x x]-ši | |
| 20 | [x x x x x x x x x] | |
| 21 | [x x x x x x x x x] | |
| 22 | [x x x x x x x x x] | |
| b.e. | ||
| 23 | [x] iš ⸢la⸣ [x x x x x x] | |
| 24 | [x] e [x x x x x x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1 | {1}{d}AMAR.UTU—MAN—PAB [x x x x] | |
| 2 | ⸢lip⸣-qi-id is-si-⸢ia⸣ [x x x] | |
| 3 | ⸢le⸣-pu-uš u₂-ma-a ⸢x⸣+[x x x x] | |
| 4 | de-e-ni la-a e-pa-aš₂ [o] | |
| 5 | da-ba-bu ša LUGAL la iš-me | |
| 6 | e-ni ša {lu₂}NAM-MEŠ i-da-gal | |
| 7 | a-ni-na LUGAL be-li de-e-nu | |
| 8 | ša AD-ka e-pu-šu₂-u-ni | |
| 9 | ṭe₃-e-mu iš-ku-nu-u-ni | |
| 10 | u₂-ma-a an-nu-<rig> u₂-sa-bal-ki-tu₂ | |
| 11 | u₃ a-na-ku TA@v ŠA₃ E₂—AD-ia E₂—AD-ia gab-bu | |
| 12 | ki-i kal-bi a-sa-ab-bu-uʾ | |
| 13 | ra-mi₃-ni-ia la-ah-ri-id | |
| 14 | ma-ṣar-tu ša LUGAL EN-ia la-ṣur | |
| 15 | BAD₃ ma-ki-i LUGAL LUGAL be-li | |
| 16 | ki-i ša i-la-u-ni le-pu-uš | |
| 17 | man-nu at-ta {lu₂}A.BA | |
| 18 | ša ta-sa-su-u-ni | |
| 19 | TA@v IGI LUGAL EN-ka la tu-pa-⸢zar⸣ | |
| 20 | ṭa-ab-ti ina IGI LUGAL qi-bi | |
| 21 | EN {d}AG ṭa-ab-ta-ka | |
| 22 | ina IGI LUGAL liq-bi-u₂ | |
Sources & licences
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