ABL 0781 (P237901)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0781 |
|---|---|
| ID | P237901 |
| 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 [0:5] o 1o 1–o 55 | Your servant Marduk-naṣir: I would gladly die for the vizier, my lord! May Anu and Ištar bless the vizier, my lord! Say to the vizier, my lord: |
| Obverse [5:12] o 66– | The caravan from Lahiru arrived on the thirteenth of the month Tammuz (IV). The sons of Ina-tešî-eṭir, from the house of Ṣullulu, brought wool from Bit-Imbiya. |
| Reverse [0:5] r 1r 1–r 55 | They say: "Now the palace herald and the entire army of Upper Elam are at Bit-Imbiya. They are crossing a ford on the river Abani." |
| Reverse [5:15] r 66– | I have sent the news to the vizier, my lord. May my lord command at the palace that troops be positioned opposite them at Der until the king has attained his objective. |
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 | ARAD-ka {1}{d}AMAR.UTU—ŠEŠ-ir | |
| 2 | a-na di-na-an {lu₂}SUKKAL be-li₂-ia₂ | |
| 3 | lul-lik {d}a-num u {d}IŠ.TAR | |
| 4 | [a]-⸢na⸣ {lu₂}SUKKAL be-li₂-ia₂ lik-ru-bu | |
| 5 | ⸢um⸣-ma-a a-na {lu₂}SUKKAL be-li₂-ia-a-ma | |
| 6 | UD 13-KAM₂ ša₂ {iti}ŠU a-lak-ti | |
| 7 | ša₂ {uru}la-hi-ru te-te-la-a | |
| 8 | DUMU-MEŠ ša₂ {1}ina—SUH₃—KAR-ir | |
| 9 | DUMU {1}ṣu-lu-lu SIG₂-HI.A | |
| 10 | il-ti {uru}E₂—{1}im-bi-ia | |
| 11 | ul-te-bir-u₂-nu | |
| r | ||
| 1 | um-ma a-du-u₂ | |
| 2 | {lu₂}NIGIR₂—E₂.GAL {lu₂}NIGIR₂—E₂.GAL u e-mu-qu | |
| 3 | ša₂ NIM.MA{ki} e-le-ni-ti | |
| 4 | gab-bi ina {uru}E₂—{1}im-bi-ia | |
| 5 | ina {id₂}a-ba-ni ni-bi-ru | |
| 6 | u₂-ha-du-u₂ ṭe₃-e-mu | |
| 7 | [a-na] ⸢tar⸣-ṣu {lu₂}SUKKAL be-li₂-ia₂ | |
| 8 | ⸢al⸣-tap-ra ina E₂.GAL | |
| 9 | [be]-li₂ liq-bi-ma e-mu-qu | |
| 10 | [a]-na tar-ṣi-šu₂-nu | |
| r.e. | ||
| 11 | ina {uru}de-e-ru | |
| 12 | li-iz-zi | |
| e. | ||
| 1 | a-di LUGAL ṣi-⸢bu⸣-[us-su] | |
| 2 | i-ka-ša₂-du | |
Sources & licences
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