Iraq 04, 189 (P336177)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | Iraq 04, 189 |
|---|---|
| ID | P336177 |
| Museum no. | BM 123358 |
| 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 [0:5] o 1o 1–o 55 | To the king, my lord: your servant Nabû-šumu-ka''in, the scribe. Good health to the king, my lord! May Nabû and Marduk bless my lord. |
| Obverse [5:14] o 66–o 1414 | There was an earthquake on the 21st of Elul (VI). The outer town in its entirety was damaged (lit. "scratched") but the whole wall of the outer city was saved; (only a stretch of) 30.5 cubits was torn out of it and fell into the centre of the city. |
| Obverse [14:18] o 1515–o 1818 | The House of God in its entirety was dam[ag]ed and cracked, but all the gods of the king are well. |
| Obverse [18:22] o 1919– | The architrave of the window-opening of the House of God (and) [the ... of] Nabû (and) Adad [......] |
| Reverse [4:9] r 55–r 99 | of the ziggurat[s ... and] of the ... house of ... fell down; one [...] collapsed from this house. |
| Reverse [9:16] r 1010–r 1616 | The watchtowers of the middlemost gate and the outer gate have collapsed; (and) one [...] house outside the city garrison and one inside it have collapsed. |
| Reverse [16:17] r 1717–r 1717 | A royal eunuch should come and have a look. |
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}PA—MU—GIN {lu₂v}A.BA | |
| 3 | lu-u DI-mu a-na LUGAL be-li₂-ia | |
| 4 | {d}PA u {d}AMAR.UTU a-na LUGAL be-li₂-ia₂ | |
| 5 | lik-ru-bu | |
| 6 | UD 21-KAM₂ ša {iti}KIN | |
| 7 | ri-i-bu ir-tu-bu | |
| 8 | EDIN URU gab-bi-šu | |
| 9 | i-ta-am-ri-ṭi | |
| 10 | BAD₃ ša EDIN URU gab-bu | |
| 11 | i-te-ṭi-ra | |
| 12 | 30 1/2 KUŠ₃ TA@v ŠA₃-bi | |
| 13 | i-ta\t-am-la-ah | |
| 14 | ina qab-si URU i-tu-qu-ut | |
| 15 | E₂—DINGIR E₂—DINGIR gab-bu i-ta-[am]-⸢riṭ⸣ | |
| 16 | up-ta-ta-ṣi-⸢di⸣ | |
| 17 | DINGIR-MEŠ-ni ša LUGAL | |
| 18 | gab-bu DI-mu | |
| 19 | ši-ib-šu₂-tu₂ ša ap-te | |
| 20 | ⸢ša⸣ E₂—DINGIR E₂—DINGIR | |
| r | ||
| 1 | [x x]+⸢x {d⸣}PA {d}⸢IM⸣ | |
| 2 | [x x x x x x x x] | |
| 3 | šu ⸢x x x x⸣ har [x x] | |
| 4 | ⸢x⸣+[x x x]+⸢x x⸣+[x x x x] | |
| 5 | ša {e₂}si-qur-ra-[te] | |
| 6 | ša E₂—01-te E₂—01-te ša ⸢E₂ x⸣ | |
| 7 | i-tu-uq-tu 01-⸢en x⸣ | |
| 8 | TA@v ŠA₃-bi E₂ ⸢x⸣ an-ni-te | |
| 9 | i-tu-qu-ut | |
| 10 | na-mi-ri ša KA₂.GAL qab-si-te | |
| 11 | ša KA₂.GAL ⸢ša⸣ qa-ni | |
| 12 | i-tu-qu-tu | |
| 13 | E₂—01-te] E₂—01-te] 01-et ša⸣ qa-ni o | |
| 14 | E₂—ma-ṣar-te E₂—ma-ṣar-te ša URU | |
| 15 | E₂—01-te E₂—01-te 01-et TA@v ŠA₃-bi | |
| 16 | ta-tu-qu-ut | |
| 17 | {lu₂v}SAG ša ⸢LUGAL⸣ | |
| 18 | lil-⸢li⸣-[ka] ⸢le⸣-mu-ur | |
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