ABL 0930 (P238510)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0930 |
|---|---|
| ID | P238510 |
| 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 [0:5] o 1o 1–o 55 | Your servant Amel-[Nabû: I would gladly die] for the king, my lord! May [Nabû] and Marduk bless [the king, my lord! Say] to the king, [my] lord: |
| Obverse [5:12] o 66–o 1212 | Concerning what I w[rote] to the king, they have now finis[hed the harvest of] Bit-Y[akin ...], of Tarb[a...], (and) the harvest of [GN] |
| Reverse [2:3] r 3'3'–r 3'3' | of Zeriya [...] |
| Reverse [3:4] r 4'4'–r 4'4' | the people [...] |
| Reverse [4:5] r 5'5'–r 5'5' | they will lead away [...] |
| Reverse [5:7] r 6'6'–r 7'7' | May [the king] send word that they should stand [...] |
| Reverse [7:8] r 8'8'–r 8'8' | the town ... and [...] |
| Reverse [8:9] r 9'9'–r 9'9' | of Zeriya, the [...] |
| Reverse [9:10] r 10'10'–r 10'10' | their side [...] |
| Reverse [10:12] r 11'11'–r 12'12' | [One of] the cohort comman[ders ...] should inquire (and) re[port] to the ki[ng, my 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 | ARAD-ka {1}LU₂—[d.AG a-na di-na-an] | |
| 2 | LUGAL be-li₂-ia ⸢lul⸣-[lik {d}AG] | |
| 3 | u {d}AMAR.UTU a-na [LUGAL be-li₂-ia] | |
| 4 | lik-ru-bu um-[ma-a] | |
| 5 | a-na LUGAL be-li₂-[ia-a-ma] | |
| 6 | ša₂ a-na LUGAL aš₂-[pu-ru] | |
| 7 | a-du-u₂ [BURU₁₄] | |
| 8 | ša₂ E₂—{1}⸢ia⸣-[ki-ni] | |
| 9 | ša₂ {uru}tar-⸢ba⸣-[x x] | |
| 10 | BURU₁₄ ša₂ {⸢uru⸣}[x x x] | |
| 11 | uq-te-[et-tu-u₂] | |
| 12 | ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x x x x] | |
| 2' | ma-[x x x x x x x x] | |
| 3' | ša₂ {1}NUMUN-ia [x x x x] | |
| 4' | UN-MEŠ ni-[x x x x x] | |
| 5' | u₂-še-eṣ-⸢ṣu⸣-[u x x x] | |
| 6' | liš-pu-ram-ma [x x x] | |
| 7' | li-iz-zi-zu [x x] | |
| 8' | {uru}KUR-BE u₃ ⸢x⸣+[x x x] | |
| 9' | ša₂ {1}NUMUN-ia {lu₂}[x x x] | |
| 10' | i-di-šu₂-nu [x x x x] | |
| 11' | {lu₂}GAL—ki-[ṣir {lu₂}GAL—ki-[ṣir 01-en] | |
| 12' | liš-al a-[na LUGAL be-li₂-ia] | |
| 13' | liq-[bi] | |
Sources & licences
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- 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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