ABL 0260 (P237828)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0260 |
|---|---|
| ID | P237828 |
| 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 [0:7] o 1o 1–o 77 | To the king of the lands, my lord: your servant, Nabû-šumu-lišir. May Nabû and Marduk give the king of the lands, my lord, long days, everlasting years, a just sceptre, and an everlasting throne. |
| Obverse [7:11] o 88–o 1111 | Concerning the matter that the king, my lord, gave me orders about, saying, "Send me any news about the Arabs that you hear" — |
| Obverse [11:21] o 1212– | When that caravan had left (the territory of) the Nabayateans, Aya-kabar, son of Ammi-yata', the Massa'ean, attacked them, killed men and took booty. One of them, having escaped, entered the city of the king. |
| Reverse [8:11] r 99–r 1111 | Now then I am sending him to the king, my lord. May the king listen to what he has to say. |
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-ia₂ | |
| 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 | |
| 5 | {giš}NIG₂.PA i-šar-tu {giš}GU.ZA | |
| 6 | da-ru-u₂ a-na LUGAL KUR.KUR | |
| 7 | be-li₂-ia lid-di-nu | |
| 8 | a-na UGU ša₂ LUGAL be-li₂-a | |
| 9 | ṭe₃-e-me iš-kun-an-ni | |
| 10 | um-ma ṭe₃-em ša₂ {lu₂}ar-a-bi | |
| 11 | ma-la ta-šem-mu-u₂ | |
| 12 | šup-ra a-lak-ti ši-i | |
| r | ||
| 1 | ul-tu {lu₂}ne₂-ba-ʾa-a-ti | |
| 2 | ki-i tu-ṣa-a {1}{d}a.a—ka-ba-ru | |
| 3 | DUMU-šu₂ ša₂ {1}am-me—ʾa-ta-aʾ | |
| 4 | {lu₂}mas-ʾa-a.a a-na UGU-hi-šu₂-nu | |
| 5 | ki-i it-bu-u₂ ERIM-MEŠ id-duk | |
| 6 | ⸢u₃⸣ ih-ta-bat 01.en ina ŠA₃-bi-šu₂-nu | |
| 7 | ki-i u₂-še-zi-bu | |
| 8 | a-na ŠA₃-bi URU ša₂ LUGAL i-ter-ba | |
| 9 | a-du-u₂ a-na LUGAL be-li₂-ia | |
| 10 | al-tap-raš-šu₂ LUGAL | |
| 11 | ša₂ pi-i-šu₂ liš-mi | |
Sources & licences
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