ABL 1319 (P238444)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 1319 |
|---|---|
| ID | P238444 |
| 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, my lord: your servant Aqar-Bel-lumur]. Good [health to the king, my lord]! Say t[o the king, my lord: The fortress] and the troop[s of the king, my lord] are well. The mood of the [people of the land is good]. The king, [my] lo[rd, can be glad]. |
| Obverse [8:10] o 99–o 1010 | New[s of the son of Yakin]: h[e is in Babylon]. |
| Obverse [10:11] o 1111–o 1111 | There [...] |
| Obverse [11:12] o 1212–o 1212 | to [...] |
| Obverse [12:13] o 1313–o 1313 | to ... [...] |
| Obverse [13:14] o 1414–o 1414 | in Babylon [...] |
| Obverse [14:15] o 1515–o 1515 | after his heart [...] |
| Obverse [15:16] o 1616–o 1616 | and after he had boasted in the middle ... [...] |
| Obverse [16:18] o 1717–o 1818 | [had] ... [...] |
| Reverse [2:3] r 3'3'–r 3'3' | [... he has] gone. ... [...] |
| Reverse [3:6] r 4'4'–r 6'6' | [Now th]en [I will f]ind out wha[t it is and] send a detailed report [to the king, my lord]. |
| Reverse [6:10] r 7'7'–r 10'10' | [NN], the brother of Ku[...], has come [with] m[any] archers and entered [my] presence [in the fortress] of Abi-haru. |
| Reverse [10:12] r 11'11'–r 12'12' | Ne[ws] of the Babyloni[ans ...] |
| Reverse [12:13] r 13'13'–r 13'13' | the son of Tamgitu [...] |
| Reverse [13:14] r 14'14'–r 14'14' | man[y ...] |
| Reverse [14:16] r 15'15'–r 16'16' | he sen[t ...] |
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-ia] | |
| 2 | [ARAD-ka {1}a-qar—{d}EN—lu-mur] | |
| 3 | ⸢lu⸣-u₂ [šu-lum a-na LUGAL be-li₂-ia] | |
| 4 | um-ma-a a-[na LUGAL be-li₂-ia-a-ma] | |
| 5 | šu-lum a-⸢na⸣ {[uru}HAL.ṢU-MEŠ] | |
| 6 | u₃ e-mu-⸢qu⸣ [ša₂ LUGAL be-li₂-ia] | |
| 7 | ṭe₃-e-mu ša₂ [UN-MEŠ KUR šu-lum] | |
| 8 | ŠA₃-bi LUGAL be-[li₂-ia lu-u₂ DUG₃.GA] | |
| 9 | ṭe₃-e-[mu ša₂ DUMU—{1}ia-GIN] | |
| 10 | i-⸢na⸣ [TIN.TIR{ki} šu-u₂] | |
| 11 | ina ŠA₃-bi [x x x x x x] | |
| 12 | a-⸢na⸣ [x x x x x x] | |
| 13 | a-na a-[x x]+⸢x⸣ [x] ki [x x x] | |
| 14 | ina TIN.TIR{ki} [x x x x] | |
| 15 | ŠA₃-ba-šu₂ ki-i [x x x x] | |
| 16 | u₃ ina ŠA₃-bi pa-[x x x x] | |
| 17 | ki-i ip-hi-⸢za⸣ [x x x] | |
| 18 | [x x] ⸢x x⸣ da [x x x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [x x x] ⸢x x⸣+[x x x x] | |
| 2' | [x x x] li [x x x x] | |
| 3' | [x x it]-⸢ta⸣-lak di-[x x x] | |
| 4' | [a-du]-u₂ mi-nu-[u₂ šu-u₂] | |
| 5' | [a-har]-ra-ṣa-am-[ma a-na LUGAL be-li₂-ia] | |
| 6' | [a]-⸢šap⸣-pa-ra ⸢x⸣+[x x x] | |
| 7' | {1}x x]+⸢x⸣ ŠEŠ-šu₂ ša₂ {1}ku-[x x x] | |
| 8' | [KI] ERIM-MEŠ—{giš}BAN ERIM-MEŠ—{giš}BAN ⸢ma⸣-[aʾ-du-ti] | |
| 9' | ki-i il-li-⸢ka⸣ [ina BAD₃] | |
| 10' | ša₂ {1}AD—ha-ru a-na pa-[ni-ia] | |
| 11' | i-te-ru-ub ṭe₃-e-[mu] | |
| 12' | ša₂ {lu₂}TIN.TIR{ki}a.[a x] | |
| 13' | DUMU {mi₂}tam-gi-tu [x x] | |
| 14' | ma-aʾ-du-⸢ti⸣ [x x] | |
| 15' | iš-pu-⸢ra⸣ [x x x x] | |
| 16' | ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x x] | |
Sources & licences
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