ABL 0350 (P237241)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0350 |
|---|---|
| ID | P237241 |
| 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 [0:6] o 1o 1–o 66 | To the king of the lands, my lord: your servant, Nabû-šumu-lišir. May Nabû and Marduk give the king of the lands, my lord, long days, everlasting years, a just sceptre, and an everlasting throne. |
| Obverse [6:13] o 77–o 1313 | Concerning the Qedarites about whom the king, my lord, gave me orders: after I went to the highland, [I inflicted] a crus[hin]g defeat on them by the destiny of the king, my lord, and my hands [...] |
| Reverse [0:1] r 1'1'–r 1'1' | [...] the king [...]. |
| Reverse [1:7] r 2'2'–r 7'7' | Accordingly, since he defeated them, they have became scared. And as the treaty of the king, my lord, has caught up with them, those who escaped the iron sword will die of hunger. |
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 KUR.KUR be-li₂-ia | |
| 2 | ARAD-ka {1}{d}AG—MU—SI.SA₂ | |
| 3 | {d}AG u {d}AMAR.UTU UD-MEŠ GID₂.DA-MEŠ | |
| 4 | MU.AN.NA-MEŠ da-ra-a-ta | |
| 5 | {giš}NIG₂.PA i-šar-ti {giš}GU.ZA | |
| 6 | da-ru-u₂ a-na LUGAL KUR.KUR | |
| 7 | be-li₂-ia₂ lid-din-nu a-na UGU | |
| 8 | {lu₂}qi₂-dar-ra-a.a ša₂ LUGAL | |
| 9 | be-li₂-a ṭe₃-e-mu iš-kun-an-ni | |
| 10 | a-na KUR-i ki-⸢i⸣ al-li-ku | |
| 11 | i-na šim-ti ša₂ LUGAL ⸢be-li₂⸣-ia₂ | |
| 12 | di-ik-ta-šu₂-nu ma-⸢aʾ⸣-[at]-⸢ti⸣ | |
| 13 | u₃ {uzu}kap-pa-a [x x x]-⸢me⸣ | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [x x x] ⸢x x LUGAL x x⸣ | |
| 2' | ap—⸢pi₂⸣-tim-ma ap—⸢pi₂⸣-tim-ma ki-i | |
| 3' | im-ha-aṣ-šu₂-nu-ti ig-da-ru | |
| 4' | u₃ a-de-e ša₂ LUGAL be-li₂-ia₂ | |
| 5' | ki-i ik-šu-du-šu₂-nu-ti | |
| 6' | ša₂ la—pa-an GIR₂ AN.BAR u₂-še-zi-bu | |
| 7' | ina bu-bu-tu i-ma-ti | |
Sources & licences
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