Sm 1046 (P425722)
Administrative Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | Sm 1046 |
|---|---|
| ID | P425722 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | Administrative Letter |
| Find spot | Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) |
| Coordinates | 36.3582, 43.1621 |
English translation
By ORACC project saao/saa21 · 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 Bel-iqiša. Good health to the king, my lord! May Nabû and Marduk bless the king, my lord. |
| Obverse [5:12] o 66–o 1212 | From the beginning, since the king arrested me, what is my fault before the king? With respect to what the king, my lord, wrote me, saying, “Has your heart relented?” — there is no fault of mine before the king! |
| Obverse [12:14] o 1313–o 1414 | I am sitting here (in Nineveh); |
| Obverse [14:15] o 1515–o 1515 | to Marub[ištu ...] |
| Obverse [15:16] o 1616–o 1616 | to the city [...] |
| Obverse [16:18] o 1717– | to [......] |
| Reverse [0:1] r 22–r 22 | [......] the off[icial ...] |
| Reverse [1:2] r 33–r 33 | [...] into the presence of [...] |
| Reverse [2:3] r 44–r 44 | I kis[sed] the feet of the king, my lord. |
| Reverse [3:5] r 55–r 66 | Now, after everything, I have fallen down (at the king’s feet). |
| Reverse [5:8] r 77–r 99 | I swear by Bel, Nabû (and) Zarpanitu, your gods, that there is no fault of mine before the king! |
| Reverse [8:12] r 1010–r 1313 | The king, my lord, has imprisoned me. I am dying of hunger. By Bel (and) Nabû, your gods, I have not eaten bread for nine days! |
| Reverse [12:15] r 1414–r 1616 | (As to) the messages that the king, my lord, has sent me, have I not written to the king, my lord, like this ever since I was imprisoned: |
| Reverse [15:21] r 1717– | “Let me undergo the river ordeal, or let me lift the (divine) axe, (but) I swear there is no fault of mine before the king, my lord!” |
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}EN—BA-ša₂ | |
| 3 | lu DI-mu a-na LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 4 | {d}PA u₃ {d}AMAR.UTU | |
| 5 | a-na LUGAL EN-ia lik-ru-bu | |
| 6 | TA@v\dm re-e-ši ša LUGAL | |
| 7 | iṣ-bat-an-ni-ni | |
| 8 | mi-i-nu hi-ṭa-a.a ina IGI LUGAL | |
| 9 | ša LUGAL be-li₂ iš-pur-an-ni | |
| 10 | ma-a lib-ba-ka it-tu-⸢a-ha⸣ | |
| 11 | ia-u₂ hi-ṭa-a.a 0 | |
| 12 | ina IGI LUGAL la-aš-⸢šu₂⸣ 0 | |
| 13 | a-na-ku an-na-⸢ka⸣ 0 | |
| 14 | kam-mu-sa-⸢ka⸣ [x x x] 0 | |
| 15 | a-na {uru}DUMU-ub-[x x] | |
| 16 | a-na {uru}[x x x x x] | |
| 17 | ⸢a-na⸣ [x x x x x x] | |
| r | ||
| 2 | {⸢lu₂v⸣}[x x x x x x x x] | |
| 3 | ina pa-an ⸢x⸣+[x x] ⸢x x x⸣ | |
| 4 | GIR₃.2 ša LUGAL EN-ia at-ti-[šiq] | |
| 5 | u₂-ma-a i—da-at i—da-at gab-bi 0 | |
| 6 | at-tu-uq-ta 0 | |
| 7 | EN {d}PA {d}zar-pa-ni-tu₂ DINGIR-MEŠ-ka | |
| 8 | lu u₂-du-u₂ šum₂-ma hi-ṭa-a.a | |
| 9 | ina IGI LUGAL i-ba-aš₂-šu₂-u-ni | |
| 10 | LUGAL be-li₂ iṣ-ṣab-ta-an-ni | |
| 11 | ina bu-bu-te a-mu-at EN {d}PA | |
| 12 | DINGIR-MEŠ-ka šum₂-ma 09 UD-MEŠ | |
| 13 | NINDA-MEŠ a-kul-lu-u-ni | |
| 14 | ši-pir-a-te ša LUGAL be-li₂ | |
| 15. | iš-pur-an-ni TA E₂ ṣab-ta-ku-u-ni | |
| 16 | la ak an-ni-e a-na LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 17 | aš₂-pu-ra ma-a šum₂-ma ina hur-sa-an | |
| 18 | la-al-lik šum₂-ma ka-la-pu | |
| t.e. | ||
| 19 | la-an-tu₂-hu šum₂-ma hi-ṭa-a.a | |
| 20 | ina IGI LUGAL EN-ia | |
| r.e. | ||
| 1 | [i]-ba-aš₂-šu₂-u-ni | |
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