ABL 1388 (P334879)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 1388 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334879 |
| Museum no. | BM 099019 |
| 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 [0:8] o 1o 1–o 88 | [To the king, my lord: your servant Marduk-šakin-šumi. Good health to the king, my lord!] May Nabû and Marduk bless [the king], my [lord]! May they give [happi]ness and physical well-being [to the king], my [lord]! |
| Obverse [8:15] o 99– | [The sons], my lords, are doing ve[ry w]ell; the mother of the king, [my lord, is well], she has recovered. The king, my lord, [can be] happy. |
| Reverse [0:9] r 1r 1–r 99 | [Concerning the or]der [about which the kin]g, my lord, wrote to me, I am collaborating with my colleagues; we shall take counsel together (and then) speak out — the mother of the king is as able as (the sage) Adapa! |
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}{d}AMAR.UTU—GAR—MU] | |
| 3 | [lu-u DI-mu a-na LUGAL] | |
| 4 | [EN-ia {d]}⸢PA⸣ u {d}AMAR.UTU | |
| 5 | [a-na LUGAL EN]-ia lik-ru-bu | |
| 6 | [ṭu-ub ŠA₃]-bi ṭu-ub UZU | |
| 7 | [a-na LUGAL EN]-ia lid-di-nu | |
| 8 | ⸢šul⸣-mu | |
| 9 | [a-na DUMU]-⸢MEŠ⸣ EN-MEŠ-ia | |
| 10 | [a—dan]-niš | |
| 11 | [DI-mu a]-na {mi₂}AMA—LUGAL {mi₂}AMA—LUGAL | |
| 12 | [EN-ia] ⸢UZU⸣-ša₂ DUG₃.GA-ši | |
| 13 | [ŠA₃-bu ša] LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 14 | [lu-u] DUG₃.GA | |
| r | ||
| 1 | [ina] UGU ṭe₃-e-me | |
| 2 | ša LUGAL be-li₂ | |
| 3 | iš-pur-an-ni | |
| 4 | ina qa-an-ni {lu₂}GABA.RI-MEŠ-ia | |
| 5 | [o] ⸢a⸣-za-az is-sa-he-ʾi-iš | |
| 6 | ⸢ni⸣-im-ma-al-lik | |
| 7 | ⸢ni⸣-qab-bi {mi₂}AMA—LUGAL {mi₂}AMA—LUGAL | |
| 8 | ⸢ki⸣-i a-da-pi | |
| 9 | ⸢ta⸣-la-ʾi-i | |
Sources & licences
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