ABL 1430 (P237958)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
Open in the reader & map →See it among all tablets
| Designation | ABL 1430 |
|---|---|
| ID | P237958 |
| 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/saa21 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:6] o 1o 1–o 66 | To the king, my lord: [your servant Na’]id-Aššur: [May Aššur], Ištar (and) Marduk gr]ant [the king], my lord, happiness, [fit]ness, long life [and] a long reign! |
| Obverse [6:7] o 77–o 77 | [... co]ncerning [the ...] |
| Obverse [7:8] o 88–o 88 | [...] of the sheikh |
| Obverse [8:9] o 99–o 99 | [... the ri]ver Ulai |
| Obverse [9:10] o 1010–o 1010 | [...] the gods of the temples |
| Obverse [10:11] o 1111–o 1111 | [to whom I] pray [...] |
| Obverse [11:12] o 1212–o 1212 | [... s]tood by |
| Obverse [12:13] o 1313–o 1313 | [...] their [...] indeed |
| Obverse [14:17] o 1515– | and I burned [...] with fire. |
| Reverse [0:8] r 1r 1–r 88 | I brought out Nabû-šar-ahhešu, Nergal-uballiṭ, Ṣillaya, Ubru-Šamaš, Nabû-eṭir-napšati, Tammeš-idri, Idriya and Sabinu, in all 8 Assyrians, who had been captured in Elam and kept in prison. |
| Reverse [8:12] r 99–r 1212 | I released those who had been put in irons, dressed them up and have sent them to the Palace. |
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 EN-ia₂ | |
| 2 | [ARAD-ka {1}na]-id—AN.ŠAR₂ | |
| 3 | [AN.ŠAR₂] {d}15 {d}AMAR.UTU ṭu-ub ŠA₃-bi | |
| 4 | [ṭu-ub] UZU <UD>-MEŠ GID₂.DA-MEŠ | |
| 5 | [u₃ la]-⸢bar⸣ BALA-[e a]-na | |
| 6 | [LUGAL] EN-ia [li]-⸢qi₂⸣-šu₂ | |
| 7 | [x x x] UGU ⸢x⸣+[x] ⸢x⸣-nu | |
| 8 | [x x x x]-tu ša₂ {lu₂}na-si-ku | |
| 9 | [x x x x] {⸢id₂⸣}u₂-la-a.a | |
| 10 | [x x x x] DINGIR-MEŠ ša₂ E₂.KUR-MEŠ | |
| 11 | [x x x x]-tab u₂-ṣal-lu-u₂ | |
| 12 | [x x x] ⸢it⸣-ta-ši-iz-zu | |
| 13 | [x x]-šu₂-nu [x x] i-ba-aš₂-ši | |
| 14 | [x] ⸢x⸣+[x]-ih [x x]-ta | |
| 15 | u₃ i-na ŠA₃-bi | |
| 16 | i-ša₂-a-ta | |
| r | ||
| 1 | al-ta-rap {1}{d}AG—LUGAL—ŠEŠ-MEŠ-šu₂ | |
| 2 | {1}{d}U.GUR—DIN-iṭ {1}ṣil-la-a | |
| 3 | {1}u₂-bar—sa-a.a-su {1}{d}AG—KAR—ZI-MEŠ | |
| 4 | {1}tam-meš—id-ri {1}id-ri-ia | |
| 5 | u₃ {1}sa-bi-ni PAB 08 | |
| 6 | {lu₂}aš-šur{ki}MEŠ ša₂ ina {kur}NIM.MA{ki} | |
| 7 | ṣab-tu ša₂ ina E₂—kil-li E₂—kil-li | |
| 8 | ṣab-tu ul-te-ṣa-aʾ | |
| 9 | ša₂ UD.KA.BAR šak-nu | |
| 10 | ap-ta-ṭar ul-tab-bi-iš | |
| 11 | u₃ a-na E₂.GAL | |
| 12 | ⸢al⸣-tap-raš-šu₂-nu-tu | |
Sources & licences
- Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative · CDLI: reuse of catalogue/transliteration data with citation of CDLI; images restricted (not fetched) · Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI), https://cdli.earth/ ; cite CDLI and the P-number
- 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)
Cite the original edition and translator. Page generated by Unread Atlas from the public corpus export of 2026-10-11.