ABL 0898 (P238712)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0898 |
|---|---|
| ID | P238712 |
| 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 [0:2] 11–22 | Tablet of Nabû-taklak to the governor, his lord. |
| Obverse [2:6] 33–66 | When I came to Marad, the Maradeans [sent a mes]senger to [NN] |
| Reverse [1:6] r 2'2'–r 6'6' | [I sa]id to the [royal] eunuch: "I shall never move [ga]rrison troops to Bit-[Dakuri]!" Afterwards they have not obeyed me. |
| Reverse [6:11] r 7'7'– | I have given out the food rations and the flour. Now Nabû-ereš and his soldiers are guarding the fortress. |
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) |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | ṭup-pi {1}{d}AG—tak-lak | |
| 2 | a-na {lu₂}EN.NAM be-li₂-šu₂ | |
| 3 | [a]-⸢na⸣ MAR₂.DA{ki} ki-i | |
| 4 | [e]-⸢ru⸣-bu {lu₂}MAR₂.DA{ki}u₂-a | |
| 5 | {[lu₂}DUMU]—⸢šip⸣-ru {[lu₂}DUMU]—⸢šip⸣-ru {[lu₂}DUMU]—⸢šip⸣-ru a-na {1}{d}[x x x] | |
| 6 | [x x x x] ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [x x x] ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x] | |
| 2' | [x x]-niš a-na {lu₂}⸢SAG⸣ | |
| 3' | [aq]-⸢ta⸣-bu um-⸢ma⸣ | |
| 4' | {⸢lu₂}šu⸣-lu-tu a-na E₂—{1}[da-ku-ri] | |
| 5' | u-ma la u₂-še-el-li | |
| 6' | ar₂-ka ul iš-mu-in-ni | |
| 7' | a-na-ku PAD-HI.A si-im-ma-nu-u₂ | |
| r.e. | ||
| 8 | at-ta-din en-na {1}{d}AG—APIN-eš | |
| 9 | a-di ERIM-MEŠ-šu₂ bir-ti | |
| e. | ||
| 1 | [i-nam-ṣa]-ru | |
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
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