ABL 0524 (P237833)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0524 |
|---|---|
| ID | P237833 |
| 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/saa17 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:6] o 1o 1–o 66 | To Sargon, king of the universe: thus say your servants Ha'il-il and Zabdi-il, who guard the fortress of Šabhanu for the king, their lord. The king's fortress is well. Good health to the king, our lord! |
| Obverse [6:16] o 77–o 1616 | The letter(s) which Nabû-taklak sends to the king — it is not Nabû-taklak (himself) but his delegates who write them. And what they are (now) writing to the king, viz., "Remove the prefect from Bit-Dakuri!" — the king should write to them: "Why do you write (about) injustice? [If he] is doing injustice to you, [br]ing [...]!" |
| Reverse [0:1] r 1'1'–r 1'1' | [...] they are going |
| Reverse [1:2] r 2'2'–r 2'2' | [...] against them [...] |
| Reverse [2:4] r 3'3'–r 4'4' | [...] that is why they write to [the king]: "[...]" |
| Reverse [4:5] r 5'5'–r 5'5' | [...] "We are [...]" |
| Reverse [5:6] r 6'6'–r 6'6' | "We shall nouri[sh them] in the house of the king." |
| Reverse [6:10] r 7'7'–r 10'10' | Let the king write to the prefect that he should place his messenger in Bit-Tammeš-šama' to keep the barley for the king. |
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—GIN LUGAL ŠU₂ um-ma {lu₂}ARAD-MEŠ-ka | |
| 2 | {1}ha-il—DINGIR u₃ {1}zab-di—DINGIR | |
| 3 | ša₂ {uru}bir-ti ša₂ {uru}šab-ha-a-ni | |
| 4 | a-na LUGAL be-li₂-šu₂-nu i-na-aṣ-ṣa-ru | |
| 5 | šul-mu a-na {uru}bir-ti ša₂ LUGAL | |
| 6 | lu-u₂ šul-mu a-na LUGAL be-li₂-i-ni | |
| 7 | ši-pir-ti ša₂ {1}{d}AG—tak-lak | |
| 8 | a-na LUGAL u₂-šeb-bi-la | |
| 9 | ul {1}{d}AG—tak-lak ki-i i-šaṭ-ṭa-ru-ši | |
| 10 | {lu₂}qi₂-pa-ni-šu₂ i-šaṭ-ṭa-ru-ši | |
| 11 | u₃ ša₂ a-na LUGAL i-šap-pa-ru-u₂-ni | |
| 12 | um-ma {lu₂}šak-nu {uru}E₂—{1}da-kur | |
| 13 | šu-u₂-ṣi LUGAL liš-pur-aš₂-šu₂-nu-⸢ti⸣ | |
| 14 | um-ma ⸢mi-nu⸣-u₂ ha-ba-lu | |
| 15 | ⸢ta⸣-šaṭ-ṭa-[ra ki-i i]-⸢hab⸣-bi-lu-ku-nu-[ši] | |
| 16 | [x x x x x x x x šu]-bi-la | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [x x] ⸢il⸣-la-ku [x x x x x x] | |
| 2' | [a-na] ⸢UGU⸣-hi-šu₂-nu [x x x x] | |
| 3' | [x ina] ⸢UGU⸣-hi a-na [x x x x] | |
| 4' | [i]-⸢šap⸣-pa-ru-ni um-⸢ma⸣ [x x x] | |
| 5' | [x x] ⸢um⸣-ma ni-i-[nu x x x] | |
| 6' | i-⸢na⸣ E₂ ša₂ LUGAL ni-ip-pi-[ir-šu₂-nu-ti] | |
| 7' | LUGAL a-na {lu₂}šak-ni liš-pu-ram-⸢ma⸣ | |
| 8' | {lu₂}A—KIN-šu₂ {lu₂}A—KIN-šu₂ ina E₂—tam-meš—ša-ma-aʾ [o] | |
| 9' | liš-kun-ma {še}BAR a-na LUGAL | |
| 10' | lu-ki-il | |
Sources & licences
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