ABL 1383 (P334877)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 1383 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334877 |
| Museum no. | BM 099011 |
| 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 Nabû-ahhe-eriba. Good health to the king, my lord! May Nabû and Marduk bless the king, my lord! |
| Obverse [6:18] o 77– | Concerning what the king, my lord, wrote to me: "Is it favourable for the crown prince to come into the presence of the king?" — it is very favourable. The crown prince may come into the presence of the king, my lord, this (very) day. |
| Reverse [0:19] r 1r 1– | May Bel and Nabû lengthen his days, and may the king, my lord, see him prosper! The month is good, this day is good: the planet Mercury (signifies) the crown prince, and it is vis[ib]le in the constellation [Ari]es; Venus [is] visible in [Bab]ylon, in the home of [his] dynasty (lit. father); and the moon will complete the day in the month Nisan (I). We count this together: it is propitious. |
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}{d}PA—PAB-MEŠ—SU | |
| 3 | lu DI-mu a-na LUGAL | |
| 4 | EN-ia | |
| 5 | {d}PA {d}AMAR.UTU a-na LUGAL | |
| 6 | EN-ia lik-ru-bu | |
| 7 | ina UGU ša LUGAL | |
| 8 | be-li₂ iš-pur-an-ni | |
| 9 | ma-a DUMU—LUGAL DUMU—LUGAL | |
| 10 | ṭa-ba-a ina IGI LUGAL | |
| 11 | a-na e-ra-a-bi | |
| 12 | a—dan-niš ṭa-a-ba | |
| 13 | UD-mu an-ni-u₂ | |
| 14 | DUMU—LUGAL DUMU—LUGAL ina IGI LUGAL | |
| b.e. | ||
| 15 | EN-ia | |
| 16 | le-ru-ba | |
| r | ||
| 1 | {d}EN {d}PA | |
| 2 | UD-me-šu₂ lu-ur-ri-ku | |
| 3 | ne₂-ma-al-šu₂ | |
| 4 | LUGAL be-li₂ le-mur | |
| 5 | ITI ṭa-a-ba | |
| 6 | UD-mu an-ni-u₂ ṭa-a-ba | |
| 7 | {mul}UDU.IDIM.[GUD].UD | |
| 8 | DUMU—LUGAL DUMU—LUGAL ⸢šu⸣-u₂ | |
| 9 | ina ŠA₃ {mul}{[lu₂}HUN].GA₂ | |
| 10 | in-[na]-⸢mar⸣ | |
| 11 | {mul}dil-bat [ina KA₂].DINGIR.RA{ki} | |
| 12 | ina E₂—⸢AD⸣-[šu₂ E₂—⸢AD⸣-[šu₂ in]-na-mar | |
| 13 | {d}30 ina {iti}BARAG | |
| 14 | UD-mu u₂-⸢šal⸣-lam | |
| 15 | is-sa-a-he-e-iš | |
| 16 | nu-qar-rab | |
| r.e. | ||
| 17 | du-un-qu šu-u | |
Sources & licences
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