ABL 1090 (P236908)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 1090 |
|---|---|
| ID | P236908 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| 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/saa18 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [5:11] o 6'6'–o 11'11' | When they came [to] me and dragged away fifty (stone) st[eps], they kept cutting off their foliage until I reached them. They went away, (but) did it again. |
| Obverse [11:18] o 12'12'– | Now when they came (again), they carried off as booty two 'third-men' of the king. I do know that you ordered the sortie and I do know that the king had appoint[ed] them. |
| Reverse [0:5] r 1r 1–r 55 | The king, our lord, says: "You must not take booty from them." But you are assuredly coming and taking booty from our city! |
| Reverse [5:11] r 66–r 1111 | As to what you said: "We have captured Šuma-iddin about whom you wrote" — Šuma-iddin who [...] |
| Edge [0:1] e. 1e. 1–e. 1e. 1 | When [...] led away [...], they deserted. |
| Edge [1:2] e. 22–e. 22 | Send to me those who are in your presence, so I [will ...]. |
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' | [x x x x x]+⸢x x⸣+[x x x] | |
| 2' | [x x x pa]-⸢ni-ka⸣ [x x] | |
| 3' | [x x x x]+⸢x⸣ di ⸢x⸣+[x x] | |
| 4' | [x x x x]+⸢x⸣ a-na ⸢UGU⸣ [o] | |
| 5' | {1}x x—{d]}AMAR.UTU lu-⸢x⸣+[x x] | |
| 6' | [a-na] mah-ri-ia ki-⸢i⸣ | |
| 7' | il-li-ku-nu 50 mi-la-[a-tu₂] | |
| 8' | ki-i il-du-du-u₂ | |
| 9' | a-di UGU-hi ša₂ a-kaš-šad-šu₂-nu-tu₂ ⸢x⸣+[x o] | |
| 10' | ar₂-ti-šu₂-nu ub-te-ti-qu | |
| 11' | ki-i il-li-ku ut-tir-ru | |
| 12' | en-na ki-i il-li-ku-nu | |
| 13' | 02 {lu₂}taš-li-ša₂-nu ša₂ LUGAL | |
| 14' | ih-tab-tu ki-i ṣi-ta | |
| 15' | taq-bu-u₂ lu-uʾ i-di | |
| 16' | u ki-i LUGAL šu-nu ib-bu-[u₂] | |
| 17' | lu-u₂ i-di | |
| r | ||
| 1 | LUGAL be-li₂-a-ni i-qab-bi | |
| 2 | um-<ma> hu-bu-su-nu la ta-hab-ba-⸢ta⸣ | |
| 3 | u₃ at-tu-nu a-na kun-nu-tu | |
| 4 | tal-la-ka-nim hu-ub-tu | |
| 5 | ul-tu ŠA₃-bi URU-i-ni | |
| 6 | ta-hab-ba-ta-aʾ ša₂ taq-bu-u₂ | |
| 7 | um-ma {1}MU—MU ša₂ taš-pu-ra | |
| 8 | ni-iṣ-ṣab-tu {1}MU—MU | |
| 9 | ša₂ pa-⸢x x⸣ [x x x x]-u₂ | |
| 10 | ⸢ul⸣ [x x x x x x x x] | |
| 11 | šu [x x x x x x x x] | |
| e. | ||
| 1 | ki-i i-bu-ku in-⸢daq⸣-ti ha-[x x x x] | |
| 2 | ša₂ ina pa-ni-ka šup-ram-ma ⸢ad⸣-[x x x x] | |
Sources & licences
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