ABL 1259 (P237686)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 1259 |
|---|---|
| ID | P237686 |
| 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/saa10 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:7] o 1o 1–o 77 | To the king of the world, my lord: your servant Aqaraya. May Nabû and Marduk bless the king of the world, my lord! May Bel and Nabû ordain happiness and health for the king, my lord! |
| Obverse [7:11] o 88–o 1111 | Last year I [appealed] to the king concerning a lawsuit of mine |
| Reverse [0:1] r 1'1'–r 1'1' | [...... ] did he take [...]? |
| Reverse [2:3] r 3'3'–r 3'3' | [......] account |
| Reverse [3:4] r 4'4'–r 4'4' | [......] enters |
| Reverse [7:8] r 8'8'–r 8'8' | He has damaged all my property. |
| Reverse [8:12] r 9'9'–r 12'12' | Now, let them ask the messenger who went and communicated the royal order to him, and whom we commissioned. |
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 kiš-ša₂-ti be-li₂-ia | |
| 2 | ARAD-ka {1}a-qar-a.a | |
| 3 | {d}AG u {d}AMAR.UTU a-na LUGAL kiš-ša₂-ti | |
| 4 | be-li₂-ia lik-ru-bu | |
| 5 | {d}EN u {d}AG ṭu-ub ŠA₃-bi | |
| 6 | u ṭu-ub UZU ša₂ LUGAL be-li₂-ia | |
| 7 | li-iq-bu-u₂ | |
| 8 | ša₂-ad-da-aq-ad | |
| 9 | [i]-⸢na⸣ UGU di-ni-ia | |
| 10 | [a]-⸢na⸣ LUGAL be-li₂-ia | |
| 11 | [x x]+⸢x⸣ an-⸢da-har⸣ | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [x x x x x x x] ⸢il⸣-te-qi₂-i | |
| 2' | [x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣-i | |
| 3' | [x x x x x x x] NIG₂.ŠID | |
| 4' | [x x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ ir-ru-ub | |
| 5' | [x x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣-ru | |
| 6' | [x x x x x x x x]-ni | |
| 7' | [x x x x x x x x]-u₂ | |
| 8' | NIG₂.ŠID-MEŠ-⸢ia⸣ [gab]-bi | |
| 9' | uh-te-eṭ-ṭu [a]-du-u | |
| 10' | {lu₂}DUMU—šip-ri {lu₂}DUMU—šip-ri ša₂ il-li-ku-ma | |
| 11' | a-mat LUGAL iq-ba-aš₂-šu₂ | |
| 12' | ⸢ni⸣-ip-qi₂-da-aš₂-šu₂ | |
| 13' | ⸢li⸣-iš-ʾa-a-lu-uš | |
Sources & licences
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