ABL 1375 (P334872)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 1375 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334872 |
| Museum no. | BM 098995 |
| 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/saa10 · 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 Issar-šumu-ereš. Good health to the king, my lord! May Nabû and Marduk bless the king, [my lo]rd! |
| Obverse [6:11] o 77–o 1111 | Concerning the four [...]-gems of the statue [of ...] about which the ki[ng, my lord, wrote to me]: "[......] |
| Reverse [2:9] r 33–r 99 | [...] not to enter [...] who (or which) is not [acceptable] to the king, my lord; what should I [...], what should I [...]? I would like to undertake and per[form] the work of the king, my lord, and even do it in excess (literally: pay interest)! |
| Reverse [9:16] r 1010–r 1616 | He (said) "W[ho ... has] ever vis[ited] the king and [...] in ...? He did not visit me when I w[as] crown prince, how could he now visit 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 EN-ia | |
| 2 | ARAD-ka {1}15—MU—KAM | |
| 3 | lu šul-mu a-na LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 4 | {d}AG u {d}AMAR.UTU | |
| 5 | a-na LUGAL ⸢EN⸣-[ia] | |
| 6 | lik-ru-bu | |
| 7 | ina UGU 04 {na₄}[x x x] | |
| 8 | ša ⸢ṣa-lam⸣ [x x x x] | |
| 9 | ša ⸢LUGAL⸣ [be-li iš-pur-an-ni] | |
| 10 | ma-a [x x x x x x] | |
| 11 | ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x x] | |
| b.e. | ||
| 12' | [x x x] iš ⸢x⸣+[x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1 | [x x] it—ti-[ma-li] it—ti-[ma-li] | |
| 2 | [x]+⸢x⸣ e-pu-[x x x] | |
| 3 | [x] la e-ra-bi ⸢x⸣+[x x x] | |
| 4 | ⸢ša⸣ ina IGI LUGAL EN-ia la [ma-hir-u-ni] | |
| 5 | mi-i-nu lu-[x x x x x] | |
| 6 | mi-i-nu lu-[x x x x x] | |
| 7 | dul-lu ša LUGAL ⸢EN⸣-[ia] | |
| 8 | la-aṣ-ba-ta le-[pu-uš] | |
| 9 | ṣi-ib-tu u₂-⸢ṣa⸣-[ab] | |
| 10 | ma-a a.⸢a⸣-[u₂ x] | |
| 11 | ša ina ma-te-me-[e-ni] | |
| 12 | ina pa-an LUGAL [x x x] | |
| 13 | u₃ ina ga ri ⸢du⸣ [x x] | |
| 14 | ki-i DUMU—LUGAL DUMU—LUGAL a-⸢na⸣-[ku-ni] | |
| 15 | ina pa-ni-⸢ia la⸣ e-⸢ru⸣-[ba] | |
| 16 | ma-a u₂-⸢ma⸣-a a-⸢ke⸣-[e] | |
| 17 | ina IGI-ia le-e-⸢ru-ba⸣ | |
Sources & licences
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