ABL 0721 (P237936)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0721 |
|---|---|
| ID | P237936 |
| 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 [0:7] o 1o 1–o 77 | Your [servant] Marduk-šuma-iddina: I would gladly die for the king, my lord! Say to the king, my lord: I have sent my messenger to greet the king, the horses and the soldiers. |
| Obverse [7:14] o 88– | Concerning the Hatalleans of whom the king wrote: "Send (word) that 10 men from their midst should come to me" — |
| Reverse [0:8] r 1r 1–r 88 | the king's bodyguard having come to me, I sent (word) and the Hatallaeans came to me. I have given 10 men to the hands of the bodyguard of the king, my lord. |
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—MU—SUM-na | |
| 2 | [a]-na di-na-an LUGAL be-li₂-ia | |
| 3 | ⸢lul⸣-lik um-ma-a | |
| 4 | a-na LUGAL be-li₂-ia-a-ma | |
| 5 | {lu₂}DUMU—KIN-ia {lu₂}DUMU—KIN-ia a-na šul-mi | |
| 6 | LUGAL {anše}KUR.RA-MEŠ | |
| 7 | u₃ ERIM-MEŠ al-tap-ra | |
| 8 | aš₂-šu₂ {1}ha-tal-la-a.a | |
| 9 | ša₂ LUGAL iš-pu-ra | |
| 10 | um-ma šu-pur-ma | |
| 11 | ERIM-MEŠ 10 ina ŠA₃-bi-šu₂-nu | |
| 12 | a-na pa-ni-ia | |
| 13 | lil-lik-u₂-ni | |
| r | ||
| 1 | {lu₂}ša₂—qur-ru-bu-ti | |
| 2 | ša₂ LUGAL a-na pa-ni-ia | |
| 3 | it-tal-ka ki-i | |
| 4 | aš₂-pu-ru {lu₂}ha-tal-la-a.a | |
| 5 | a-na pa-ni-ia it-tal-ku-ni | |
| 6 | 10 ERIM-MEŠ | |
| 7 | a-[na ŠU.2 {lu₂}ša₂—qur-ru-bu-ti | |
| 8 | ša₂ [x x x] LUGAL be-li₂-ia <at-ta-din> | |
Sources & licences
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- 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) · ORACC project editions, https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ ; cite the individual project (see texts.extra_json.project)
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