ABL 0287 (P237779)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0287 |
|---|---|
| ID | P237779 |
| 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/saa21 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [1:4] o 11–o 33 | [The king's word to the Nipp[urians]: I am well; you can be glad. |
| Obverse [4:10] o 44–o 99 | Concerning Hannana, Rimut, and Aya-ila'i, the Ru'ueans about whom you wrote, it is good that you captured them. Now do not neglect to keep them under guard. |
| Obverse [10:16] o 1010–o 1515 | And as to what you wrote, "When we, 15 elders, came to visit the king, [half of us] entered [into] the king's [presence but half of us were rej]ected — |
| Obverse [16:24] o 1616– | [it is in the first place the fault of Iss]ar-bani and the fault of the šandabakku and of your prefect, and in the second place of the overseer of the palace, who did not let you into my presence. |
| Reverse [6:14] r 77–r 1414 | I swear by Aššur and my gods that I did not know that half of you had entered into my presence and half of you had not. (How) would I know who is this and who is that? I am equally favourably disposed towards all of you. |
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 | ||
| 0 | [a-mat LUGAL] | |
| 1 | a-na {lu₂}EN.⸢LIL₂⸣{[ki}MEŠ-a.a] | |
| 2 | DI-mu a.a-ši | |
| 3 | ŠA₃-ba-ku-nu lu-u₂ DUG₃.GA-ku-nu | |
| 4 | ina UGU {1}ha-an-na-na {1}ri-mut | |
| 5 | u₃ {1}a.a—DINGIR-a-ʾi | |
| 6 | {lu₂}ru-u₂-a.a ša₂ taš-pur-a-ni | |
| 7 | ba-ni ša₂ taṣ-ba-ta-šu₂-nu-ti | |
| 8 | en-na a-na EN.NUN-šu₂-nu | |
| 9 | la te-eg-ga-a-aʾ | |
| 10 | u₃ ina UGU ša₂ taš-pur-a-ni | |
| 11 | um-ma 15 a-ni-nu | |
| 12 | {lu₂}AB.BA-MEŠ a-na šul-me | |
| 13 | ša ⸢LUGAL⸣ ki-i ni-il-li-ka | |
| 14 | [x x a-na pa-an] LUGAL i-ter-bu | |
| 15 | [mi-šil-ma it-ta-as]-kip | |
| 16 | [x x x x x x]-me-ma | |
| r | ||
| 1 | [ša₂ {1}{d]}⸢INNIN⸣—ba-ni hi-iṭ-ṭu | |
| 2 | ⸢ša₂⸣ 0 {lu₂}ša₂-an-da-bak-ki | |
| 3 | ša₂ {lu₂}šak-ni-ku-nu šu-u | |
| 4 | u₃ ša₂-ni-ia-aʾ-nu | |
| 5 | ša {lu₂}ša₂—IGI—E₂.GAL | |
| 6 | ša la u₂-qar-rib-ak-ku-nu-ši | |
| 7 | i-na pa-ni-ia i-na ŠA₃ | |
| 8 | AN.ŠAR₂ DINGIR-MEŠ-e-a at-te-me | |
| 9 | ki-i i-du-u₂ ša₂ me-šil-ku-nu | |
| 10 | i-ru-bu i-na pa-ni-ia₂ | |
| 11 | u₃ mi-šil-ku-nu ia-aʾ-nu | |
| 12 | a-na-ku i-de-e | |
| 13 | a-ga-a man-nu u₃ a-ga-a | |
| 14 | man-nu MUN ša₂ gab-bi-ku-nu | |
| 15 | ki-i 01+en ina UGU-hi-ia₂ | |
Sources & licences
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