ABL 0915 (P238020)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0915 |
|---|---|
| ID | P238020 |
| 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 [0:4] o 1o 1–o 44 | To the king, our lord: [your servants], the Gambulians, young and ol[d]; good [health] to the king, our lord! |
| Obverse [4:6] o 55–o 66 | We, the dead ones, s[aw the words] of the message that the king, [our] lord, sent, and treasured it. |
| Obverse [6:11] o 77–o 1111 | [After] we turned our faces towards [the king, our lord], we have emigrated fro[m the city of Sallat] and settled [in the Fortress of Lihbuqu] ...] |
| Obverse [11:12] o 1212–o 1212 | [...] the Fortress of L[ihbuqu] |
| Obverse [12:13] o 1313–o 1313 | the house of [...] |
| Reverse [0:1] r 1'1'–r 1'1' | Concerning [......] |
| Reverse [1:3] r 2'2'–r 3'3' | Rem[utu] is [a servant of the king]; when [......], |
| Reverse [3:4] r 4'4'–r 4'4' | we stati[oned ...] |
| Reverse [4:5] r 5'5'–r 5'5' | the happiness of Lord [...] |
| Reverse [5:9] r 6'6'–r 9'9' | Let him organize the country and [give it] t[o the king], and [may] we, the d[ead ones, be revived]; may the st[rong] breeze [of the king waft] over us, so we shall be revived. |
| Reverse [9:12] r 10'10'–r 12'12' | May the king com[mand that Remutu] and Šamagunu be stationed in [our presence]. |
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-i-ni [ARAD-MEŠ-ka] | |
| 2 | {lu₂}gam-bu-la-a.a {lu₂}⸢AB⸣.[BA-MEŠ] | |
| 3 | u₃ {lu₂}TUR-MEŠ lu-u₂ [šu-lum] | |
| 4 | a-na LUGAL EN-i-ni [di-ib-bi] | |
| 5 | ša₂ ši-pir-ti ša₂ LUGAL be-li₂-[ni iš-pu-ra] | |
| 6 | mi-tu-tu a-ni-ni ni-[ta-mar] | |
| 7 | u₃ ni-iš-ta-pak [ul-tu UGU] | |
| 8 | ša₂ pa-ni-ni a-na pa-⸢an⸣ [LUGAL EN-ni] | |
| 9 | ni-iš-ku-nu ul-⸢tu⸣ {[uru}ša₂-la-ti] | |
| 10 | ki-i ni-ig-la-[a ina BAD₃—ša₂—li-ih-bu-qu] | |
| 11 | ni-it-ta-⸢šab⸣ [x x x x] | |
| 12 | BAD₃—ša₂—⸢li⸣-[ih-bu-qu] | |
| 13 | E₂ {lu₂}[x x x x x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | ina UGU [x x x x x x] | |
| 2' | {1}ri-⸢mu⸣-[tu ARAD ša₂ LUGAL] | |
| 3' | šu-u₂ ki-i [x x x x x] | |
| 4' | nu-ul-taz-⸢zi⸣-[iz x x x x] | |
| 5' | ha-du-tu ša₂ EN [x x x x] | |
| 6' | KUR lik-ṣur-ma a-⸢na⸣ [LUGAL lid-din] | |
| 7' | u₃ a-ni-ni ⸢mi⸣-[tu-tu ni-ib-luṭ] | |
| 8' | zi-i-qu da-[an-nu ša₂ LUGAL] | |
| 9' | a-na UGU-hi-ni ⸢li⸣-[zi-qam-ma] | |
| 10' | ni-ib-luṭ LUGAL liq-[bu {1}ri-mu-tu] | |
| 11' | {1}ša₂-ma-gu-nu a-na [pa-ni-ni] | |
| 12' | lu-u₂ u₂-šu-uz-[zu] | |
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)
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