ABL 0264 (P237968)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0264 |
|---|---|
| ID | P237968 |
| 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 [0:8] o 1o 1–o 88 | To the king, our lord: [your] servants Nabû-šumu-lišir and Aqar-Be[l-lumur]. Good health to the king, our lord! Say to the king, our lord: the fortress and the troops of the king are well. The mood of the people of the land [is good]. The king, our lord, can be [glad]. |
| Obverse [8:10] o 99–o 1010 | Concerning the news of the [son of Yakin]: he is in Babylon. |
| Obverse [10:11] o 1111–o 1111 | As to the news [of ...] |
| Reverse [1:2] r 2'2'–r 2'2' | [... of the k]ing, our lord, |
| Reverse [2:3] r 3'3'–r 3'3' | [...]... [the moun]ted messenger of the king |
| Reverse [3:4] r 4'4'–r 4'4' | to [...] ... of the king, our lord, |
| Reverse [4:5] r 5'5'–r 5'5' | and [...] shall come. |
| Reverse [5:11] r 6'6'–r 11'11' | The messengers of the king should now quickly come to us. Then we will come quickly, see the king, our lord, and [get] confident. May we become happy under the protection of the king, our 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 | a-na LUGAL be-li₂-i-ni ARAD-⸢MEŠ⸣-[ka] | |
| 2 | {1}{d}AG—MU—SI.SA₂ u {1}KAL—{d}⸢EN⸣—[lu-mur] | |
| 3 | lu-u₂ šu-lum a-na LUGAL be-[li₂-i-ni] | |
| 4 | um-ma-a a-na LUGAL be-li₂-i-[ni-a-ma] | |
| 5 | šu-lum a-na {uru}HAL.⸢ṢU⸣-[MEŠ] | |
| 6 | u₃ e-mu-qi₂ ša ⸢LUGAL⸣ | |
| 7 | ṭe₃-em ša₂ UN-MEŠ KUR [šu-lum] | |
| 8 | ŠA₃-ba ša₂ LUGAL be-li₂-i-ni ⸢lu⸣-[u₂ ṭa-a-bi] | |
| 9 | aš₂-šu₂ ṭe₃-em ša₂ DUMU—{1}[ia-GIN] | |
| 10 | i-na TIN.TIR{ki} [šu-u₂] | |
| 11 | aš₂-šu₂ ⸢ṭe₃⸣-em [x x x x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [x x x x x] ni [x x x] | |
| 2' | [x x x x x] ⸢LUGAL⸣ be-li₂-i-ni | |
| 3' | [x x x x x]+⸢x {lu₂}kal⸣-la LUGAL | |
| 4' | a-⸢na⸣ [x x x]-⸢bi⸣ LUGAL be-li₂-i-ni | |
| 5' | u₃ [x x x x] il-la-ka | |
| 6' | en-na ha-an-ṭiš {lu₂}A—KIN-MEŠ {lu₂}A—KIN-MEŠ | |
| 7' | ša₂ LUGAL a-na pa-ni-ni lil-li-kam₂-ma | |
| 8' | ha-an-ṭiš ni-il-li-kam₂-ma | |
| 9' | LUGAL be-li₂-a-ni ni-mur-ma | |
| 10' | ni-ir-⸢hu⸣-[uṣ x x x] u₃ ina GIŠ.MI ⸢LUGAL⸣ | |
| 11' | be-li₂-i-ni ŠA₃-ba-a-ni li-ṭi-ban-⸢na⸣-[šu₂] | |
Sources & licences
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