ABL 0747 (P237939)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0747 |
|---|---|
| ID | P237939 |
| 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 [0:3] o 1o 1–o 33 | Your servant Nabû-ušallim: I would gladly die for the king, my lord! Say to the king, my lord: |
| Obverse [3:9] o 44–o 99 | Concerning the Arameans of whom the king, my lord, wrote, there are among them Arameans, who came from Uruk. [They are] now on the shore of the channel o[f Merodach-Ba]ladan. |
| Obverse [9:10] o 1010–o 1010 | [...] among them |
| Obverse [10:11] o 1111–o 1111 | [have proce]eded |
| Obverse [11:12] o 1212–o 1212 | [...] they have gone |
| Obverse [12:13] o 1313–o 1313 | [...] I/he have examined |
| Obverse [13:15] o 1414–o 1515 | [...] of Barik-il |
| Reverse [0:8] r 1'1'–r 8'8' | [...] none of them ran away and came to the king, my lord. By the gods of the king, my lord, none of those who have received favours from the son of Yakin has heard anything benevolent from him! |
| Reverse [8:13] r 9'9'–r 13'13' | The king, my lord, should uproot them so the land can be happy. They should not harass the servants of the king, my lord! They are not reliable. |
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}AG—u₂-šal-lim | |
| 2 | a-na di-na-an LUGAL be-li₂-ia₂ lul-lik | |
| 3 | um-ma-a a-na LUGAL be-li₂-ia₂-a-ma | |
| 4 | aš₂-šu₂ {lu₂}a-ra-mu ša₂ LUGAL | |
| 5 | be-li₂-ia₂ iš-pu-ra | |
| 6 | ina ŠA₃-bu-u₂ {lu₂}a-ra-mu | |
| 7 | ša₂ ⸢ul-tu⸣ UNUG{ki} u₂-ṣu-u₂ | |
| 8 | a-[du-u₂ ina] GU₂ {id₂}har-ri | |
| 9 | ⸢ša₂⸣ {1}{d}AMAR.UTU]—⸢DUMU⸣.UŠ—SUM-na | |
| 10 | [šu₂-nu x] ina ŠA₃-bu-u₂-šu₂-nu | |
| 11 | [i-te]-et-qu | |
| 12 | [x x x] it-tal-ku | |
| 13 | [x x x] u₂-mas-si-ma | |
| 14 | [x x x] ša₂ {1}ba-rik—DINGIR | |
| 15 | [x x x x x]-⸢MEŠ⸣ | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [x x] 01-⸢en⸣ [ina] ŠA₃-bi-[šu₂-nu] | |
| 2' | la ih-li-qam-⸢ma⸣ | |
| 3' | a-na pa-an LUGAL be-li₂-[ia₂] | |
| 4' | la il-lik DINGIR-MEŠ | |
| 5' | ša₂ LUGAL be-li₂-ia₂ ki-i ma-la | |
| 6' | {lu₂}a-me-lut-ti ša₂ MUN-HI.A | |
| 7' | ša₂ DUMU—{1}ia-ki-ni il-hi-mu | |
| 8' | ša₂-li-in-du ina pi-i-šu₂ | |
| 9' | tal-te-mu-u₂ LUGAL <$be-li₂$> | |
| 10' | li-is-suh-šu₂-nu-ti-ma | |
| 11' | ŠA₃-bi KUR lu-u₂ DUG₃.GA | |
| 12' | {lu₂}ARAD-MEŠ ša₂ LUGAL be-li₂-ia₂ | |
| 13' | la u₂-šad-la-pu-u₂ | |
| 14' | la ki-ne₂-e šu₂-nu | |
Sources & licences
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