ABL 1256 (P237658)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 1256 |
|---|---|
| ID | P237658 |
| 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 [0:4] o 1o 1–o 44 | The wor[d of the king] to [NN. I am] wel[l]; y[ou may be happy]. |
| Obverse [4:5] o 55–o 55 | Concerning [NN] |
| Obverse [5:6] o 66–o 66 | [...] and [NN] |
| Obverse [7:8] o 88–o 88 | [...] fifty [...] |
| Obverse [9:10] o 1010–o 1010 | [...] concerning [...] |
| Obverse [10:11] o 1111–o 1111 | [...] who against |
| Obverse [11:12] o 1212–o 1212 | [...] took [from] his [han]d |
| Obverse [13:15] o 1414– | [...] I |
| Bottom [0:1] b.e. 15b.e. 15–b.e. 15b.e. 15 | [... Sh]ould I have heard (it), |
| Bottom [1:4] b.e. 1616– | [I would have ... ha]nd [in] their [m]idst. |
| Reverse [2:3] r 33–r 33 | [the Sealand ...] |
| Reverse [3:4] r 44–r 44 | [they ......]. |
| Reverse [4:7] r 55–r 77 | And con[cerning] Ṣillaya about whom you wro[te], I myself shall sett[le] yo[ur] case with him. |
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-⸢mat⸣ [LUGAL] | |
| 2 | a-na {1}x x x x] | |
| 3 | DI-⸢mu⸣ [ia-a-ši] | |
| 4 | ŠA₃-ba-[ka lu-u DUG₃.GA-ka] | |
| 5 | i-na UGU {1}x⸣+[x x x x] | |
| 6 | a-⸢x x x⸣ u {1}[x x x] | |
| 7 | šu-[x x] {⸢uru}x⸣+[x x x] | |
| 8 | {kur}[x x x] 50 [x x x] | |
| 9 | {kur}[x x x]-šu₂ [x x x] | |
| 10 | ⸢x⸣+[x x x] ina UGU [x x] | |
| 11 | [x x x x]+⸢x⸣ ša₂ ana UGU | |
| 12 | [x x x] ⸢ŠU⸣.2-šu₂ iṣ-ṣab-⸢ta⸣ | |
| 13 | [x x x x]+⸢x⸣-ni-⸢x⸣+[x] | |
| 14 | [x x x x]+⸢x⸣ ana-ku | |
| b.e. | ||
| 15 | [x x] ⸢lu⸣-u aš₂-me | |
| 16 | <$ŠU.2 | |
| r | ||
| 1 | [i-na] <$bi⸣-ri-šu₂-nu$> | |
| 2 | <$x x x x$> | |
| 3 | <$KUR—tam-tim ARAD-MEŠ$> | |
| 4 | <$šu-nu x x$> | |
| 5 | <$i$>-[x x] u i-na ⸢UGU⸣ | |
| 6 | {1}ṣil-la-a ša₂ taš-pu-[ra] | |
| 7 | a-na-ku di-in-⸢ka⸣ | |
| 8 | it-ti-šu₂ ep-pu-[uš] | |
Sources & licences
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