ABL 0928 (P238465)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0928 |
|---|---|
| ID | P238465 |
| 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/saa10 · 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, my lord: your [ser]vant Munnabitu. Good health to the king, my lord! [May] Nabû and Marduk bless the king, my lord! |
| Obverse [4:15] o 55–o 1515 | Aššur-eṭir, the son of Ṣillaya, who informed the king claiming that Nabû-apla-iddin has killed his servants, is speaking to the king falsely and untruly. He has devised a cunning plan: "[...] of the king [...] |
| Reverse [1:2] r 2'2'–r 2'2' | not [......] |
| Reverse [2:3] r 3'3'–r 3'3' | where [......] |
| Reverse [3:5] r 4'4'–r 5'5' | has not [...]. The [...]s who [info]rmed with [him] have got afraid. |
| Reverse [5:8] r 6'6'–r 8'8' | Though the king has decided their case, nobody is giving them anything, and they are worried about their lives. |
| Reverse [8:12] r 9'9'–r 12'12' | Now, let me and my brothers plead our case against them before the king and let the king decide whatever he wishes. |
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}mun-na-bi-tu | |
| 3 | [lu]-u₂ šul-mu a-na LUGAL be-li₂-ia₂ | |
| 4 | {[d]}PA u {d}AMAR.UTU a-na LUGAL be-li₂-ia₂ | |
| 5 | ⸢lik⸣-ru-bu {1}{d}aš-šur—KAR-ir | |
| 6 | ⸢DUMU⸣ {1}ṣil-la-a ša₂ LUGAL | |
| 7 | u₂-ša₂-ʾi-id-du | |
| 8 | um-ma {1}{d}PA—DUMU.UŠ—SUM-na | |
| 9 | ARAD-MEŠ-ia id-du-uk | |
| 10 | pi-ir-ṣa-tu u la kit-ti | |
| 11 | it-ti LUGAL id-da-bu-ub | |
| 12 | ni-ik-lu it-te-ki-il | |
| 13 | um-ma [x x x x x x] | |
| 14 | ša₂ LUGAL ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x] | |
| 15 | ⸢x⸣ [x x x x x x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x x x] | |
| 2' | la ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x x] | |
| 3' | a-šar [x x x] ⸢ik⸣ [x x x] | |
| 4' | ul i-⸢sah⸣-[x x]-MEŠ ⸢x⸣+[x x]+⸢x⸣ | |
| 5' | ša₂ it-ti-[šu₂ u₂-ša₂]-ʾi-du ip-tal-hu | |
| 6' | u di-in-šu₂-nu ša₂ LUGAL ip-ru-su | |
| 7' | mam-ma mim-ma ul id-da-aš₂-šu₂-nu-ti | |
| 8' | u a-na UGU ZI-MEŠ-šu₂-nu id-da-ab-bu | |
| 9' | en-na a-na-ku ŠEŠ-MEŠ-e-a | |
| 10' | di-ni ina pa-an LUGAL it-ti-šu₂-nu | |
| 11' | ni-id-bu-ub-ma mim-ma ša₂ LUGAL | |
| 12' | ṣi-bu-u₂ li-ip-ru-us | |
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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