ABL 0811 (P237645)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0811 |
|---|---|
| ID | P237645 |
| 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 l[or]d: your servant, Nabû-šumu-lišir. May Nabû and Marduk give the king of the lands, my lord, l[o]ng days, everlast[i]ng years, a just sceptre, and an everlasting throne. |
| Obverse [6:8] o 77–o 88 | [Concerni]ng the Qedarites about whom the king, my lord, [wrote to me, saying]: "[... NN] and Il-kabar [...]" — |
| Obverse [8:9] o 99–o 99 | [...] Il-kabar |
| Obverse [9:11] o 1010–o 1111 | [...] and I |
| Reverse [0:1] r 1'1'–r 1'1' | [...] their [...] |
| Reverse [1:2] r 2'2'–r 2'2' | [... the king], my lord |
| Reverse [5:6] r 6'6'–r 6'6' | re[moved] the tablet [...] placed [...]. |
| Reverse [6:8] r 7'7'–r 8'8' | When they were kept away from [it/him], they [w]ent back to Ud[a...]. |
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-⸢ti⸣ {giš}NIG₂.PA | |
| 5 | i-šar-ti {giš}GU.ZA-⸢u₂ da⸣-ru-u₂ | |
| 6 | ⸢a-na LUGAL⸣ KUR.KUR EN-ia₂ lid-din-nu | |
| 7 | [a-na] ⸢UGU {lu₂}qi₂-dar⸣-a.a ša₂ LUGAL EN-a | |
| 8 | [iš-pu-ra um-ma x]+⸢x-la⸣-ta u {1}DINGIR—ka-bar | |
| 9 | [x x x x x x] ⸢x⸣ {1}DINGIR—ka-bar | |
| 10 | [x x x x x x x] ⸢x⸣ u a-na-⸢ku⸣ [o] | |
| 11 | [x x x x x x x x] ⸢x x⸣ | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [x x x x x x x]-⸢ni-šu₂-nu⸣ | |
| 2' | [x x x x x x LUGAL] EN-⸢ia₂⸣ | |
| 3' | [x x] ⸢la⸣ [x x x x x]-⸢bu⸣-u | |
| 4' | [x x]-⸢še⸣-šu₂ ⸢x⸣ [x x x] ⸢x x x x⸣ | |
| 5' | ⸢šar-x x x⸣ [x] ⸢x⸣ [x x x] | |
| 6' | ⸢ṭup-pu x x⸣ [x] ⸢x x-uš šak⸣-nu | |
| 7' | ⸢ul-x x⸣ ina ŠA₃-[bi-šu₂] ki-i ip-par-su | |
| 8' | a-na pa-an {1}u₂-⸢da⸣-[x] ⸢it⸣-te-eh-su | |
Sources & licences
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