ABL 1378 (P334874)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 1378 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334874 |
| Museum no. | BM 098998 |
| 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 [0:4] o 1o 1–o 44 | 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 lord! |
| Obverse [4:10] o 55–o 1010 | When the king, my lord, sent me to the Inner City, I saw [...] |
| Reverse [2:5] r 3'3'–r 5'5' | [...] just [as the king, my lord], wrote to me, he showed it [to me, saying]: "There is [no] gold here; they have diminished the [...]." |
| Reverse [5:8] r 6'6'–r 8'8' | Whatever old work there is, is full (weight) as if cast; (but) all the new stuff which has been manufactured recently is too thin. |
| Reverse [8:12] r 9'9'–r 12'12' | The king, my lord, knows that the temple of Amurru collapsed and Amurru was moved into the temple of Anu. Now the temple of Amurru has been completely rebuilt. What is it that the king, my lord, orders? |
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 DI-mu a-na LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 4 | {d}AG u {d}AMAR.UTU a-na LUGAL EN-ia₂ lik-ru-bu | |
| 5 | ša LUGAL be-li a-na {uru}ŠA₃—URU | |
| 6 | iš-pur-an-ni-[ni x x x x] a-ta-mar | |
| 7 | u₃ ⸢ra⸣ [x x x x x x x] ⸢x x⸣ ka | |
| 8 | is-se-⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x x x] | |
| 9 | 01-⸢en⸣ [x x x x x x x x x x] | |
| 10 | ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x x x x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | ⸢x⸣ [x x x x x x x x x x x] | |
| 2' | ma-a [x x x x x x x x x x] | |
| 3' | ki-⸢i⸣ [ša LUGAL be-li] iš-⸢pur⸣-an-[ni] | |
| 4' | uk-tal-⸢lim⸣-[an-ni ma-a] ⸢an⸣-na-ka KUG.GI ⸢la⸣-[aš₂-šu₂] | |
| 5' | ma-a me-⸢x⸣+[x x] uq-ṭa-li-lu-[u]-ni | |
| 6' | am—mar dul-⸢lu⸣-[ni] la-bi-ru ki-i šip-ki ga-mir | |
| 7' | am—mar eš-šu₂-un-ni ša u₂-ma-a | |
| 8' | qa-a-tu₂ ina ŠA₃-bi tal-lik-u-ni raq-qa-⸢aq⸣ | |
| 9' | LUGAL be-li u₂-da ki-i E₂—{d}MAR.TU | |
| 10' | ra-man-šu₂ id-dip-u-ni {d}MAR.TU ina E₂—{d}a-nim | |
| 11' | u₂-še-šib-u-ni u₂-ma-a E₂—{d}MAR.TU | |
| 12' | e-piš šak-lu-ul mi₃-i-nu | |
| 13' | ša LUGAL be-li i-qab-bu-u-ni | |
Sources & licences
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