ABL 0832 (P237946)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0832 |
|---|---|
| ID | P237946 |
| 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 Na]bû-bel-šumate: I would gladly die for the king, my lord! Say to the king, my lord: I have sent my messenger to (ask for) the well-being of the king, the horses and the soldiers. |
| Obverse [7:10] o 88–o 1010 | [Concerning N]irgî [about whom the king] wrote, [I am now sending Nir]gî |
| Obverse [13:14] o 1414–o 1414 | [... of] the king, m[y] lord, |
| Obverse [14:16] o 1515– | [...] anybody [...] |
| Bottom [0:2] b.e. 16b.e. 16– | [...] Nergal-[...], son of An[a-Nabû-taklak] |
| Reverse [0:2] r 1r 1–r 22 | [... they will we]ave them competently. |
| Reverse [2:7] r 33–r 77 | If the king, my lord, wishes, let him write to me, so they will weave the gowns and bring them to 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].⸢AG⸣—EN—MU-MEŠ | |
| 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}ni⸣-ir-gi-i | |
| 9 | [ša₂ LUGAL] ⸢iš⸣-pu-ra | |
| 10 | [a-du-u₂ {1}ni-ir]-gi-i | |
| 11 | [x x x x x x x] | |
| 12 | [x x x x x x x] | |
| 13 | [x x x x x x x] | |
| 14 | [x x x] LUGAL be-li₂-[ia] | |
| 15 | [x x x] mam-⸢ma⸣ [x] | |
| b.e. | ||
| 16 | [x x {1}{d]}U.GUR—[x x] ⸢DUMU⸣ {1}a-⸢na⸣—[d.AG—tak-lak] | |
| r | ||
| 1 | [x x i]-⸢le⸣-ʾu-u₂-ma | |
| 2 | [i]-⸢kam₂⸣-ma-du-šu₂-nu-ti | |
| 3 | ⸢ki⸣-i LUGAL be-li₂-a ha-du-u₂ | |
| 4 | liš-pu-ram-ma | |
| 5 | ša₂ ṣu-ba-a-ti | |
| 6 | lik-mu-du-u₂-ma | |
| 7 | a-na pa-an LUGAL be-li₂-ia | |
| 8 | liš-šu-u₂-ni | |
Sources & licences
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