ABL 0202 (P237776)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0202 |
|---|---|
| ID | P237776 |
| 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 [0:3] o 1o 1–o 33 | To the king, my lord: your servant, Kabtiya. Good health to the king, my lord! |
| Obverse [3:18] o 44– | Concerning the treaty of Babylon about which the king, my lord, wrote to me, I was not present (because of) the sealed document of the king, my lord, which Aššur-ra'im-šarri brought to me: my brothers and I went and kept watch with him in Raši, (so) I missed the appointed time of the treaty of Babylon. |
| Bottom [1:10] b.e. 1818– | On the way (home), I went to see the palace supervisor. He took me along, and by your gods, I joined the treaty of the king, my lord, in Nippur and in Uruk. |
| Reverse [6:12] r 77–r 1212 | And do I not rejoice in the treaty of the king, my lord! I say: "(My) men, their sons, and their wives, together with their gods, should (also) enter into the treaty of the king, my lord!" |
| Reverse [12:20] r 1313– | And (as for) me, in accordance with the order of the king, my lord, when the elders came, they entered into the treaty of the king, my lord, in Babylon. |
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 be-li₂-ia | |
| 2 | {lu₂}ARAD-ka {1}kab-ti-ia | |
| 3 | lu-u₂ šu-lum a-na | |
| 4 | LUGAL be-li₂-ia a-na UGU | |
| 5 | a-de-e ša₂ TIN.TIR{ki} | |
| 6 | ša₂ LUGAL EN-a iš-pu-ra | |
| 7 | ul qer-be₂-ka un-qu | |
| 8 | ša₂ LUGAL be-li₂-ia | |
| 9 | ša₂ {1}AN.ŠAR₂—ra-mi-im—LUGAL | |
| 10 | a-na UGU-hi-ia iš-ša₂-aʾ | |
| 11 | a-na-ku u ŠEŠ-MEŠ-ia | |
| 12 | ki-i ni-il-lik-ku | |
| 13 | ina {kur}a-ra-ši ma-ṣar-ta | |
| 14 | it-ti-šu₂ ni-it-ta-ṣar | |
| 15 | a-da-nu ša₂ a-de-e | |
| 16 | ša₂ TIN.TIR{ki} | |
| b.e. | ||
| 17 | ul ak-šu-du | |
| 18 | ina KASKAL.2 a-na | |
| 19 | pa-ni | |
| r | ||
| 1 | {lu₂}ša₂—pa-ni—E₂.GAL | |
| 2 | e-te-la-aʾ | |
| 3 | ki-i i-bak-ku-an-ni | |
| 4 | ina EN.LIL₂{ki} u ina UNUG{ki} | |
| 5 | ina ŠA₃-bi DINGIR-MEŠ-ka | |
| 6 | u a-de-e ša₂ LUGAL be-li₂-ia | |
| 7 | aṣ-ṣa-bat u₃ a-na-ku | |
| 8 | a-na a-de-⸢e⸣ ša₂ LUGAL be-li₂-ia | |
| 9 | ul ha-ma-ku-u₂ um-ma | |
| 10 | ERIM-MEŠ DUMU-MEŠ-šu₂-nu u DAM-šu₂-nu | |
| 11 | a-di DINGIR-MEŠ-šu₂-nu a-na ŠA₃-bi | |
| 12 | a-de-e ša₂ LUGAL be-li₂-ia | |
| 13 | li-ir-bu u₃ a-na-ku | |
| 14 | ina ši-pir-ti ša₂ LUGAL be-li₂-ia | |
| 15 | {lu₂}ši-bu-tu ki-i | |
| r.e. | ||
| 16 | il-lik-ku a-na ŠA₃-bi | |
| 17 | a-de-e ša₂ LUGAL be-li₂-ia₂ | |
| 18 | ina TIN.TIR{ki} | |
| e. | ||
| 1 | i-te-er-bu | |
Sources & licences
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