ABL 0422 (P240148)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0422 |
|---|---|
| ID | P240148 |
| 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 [0:4] o 1o 1–o 44 | Your servant Abi-yaqiya: (I would gladly die) for Sargon, my lord! Good (health) to Sargon, my lord! Say to the king, my lord: |
| Obverse [4:13] o 55– | Natannu was forced to run away to Elam, and here his men have been led away by Nabû-šumu-iddina, the commander of the fortress. All the king's men are also running away and not coming back. |
| Reverse [0:5] r 1r 1–r 55 | Kali, [the wife] of Natannu, and [his sons] are with him. Now [...] in his presence [...]; he refuses to give (them) back. |
| Reverse [5:9] r 66–r 99 | Now then I have written to the king, my lord. May the king command that the men of Natannu should not flee but that they should turn themselves in. |
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}AD—ia-qi₂-ia | |
| 2 | a-na di-na-an LUGAL—GI.NA be-li₂-ia₂ <lul-lik> | |
| 3 | lu-u₂ <šu-lum> a-na LUGAL—GI.NA be-li₂-ia₂ | |
| 4 | um-ma-a a-na LUGAL be-li₂-ia₂-a-ma | |
| 5 | {1}na-tan-nu ina {kur}NIM.MA{ki} | |
| 6 | uh-tal-li-qu u₃ | |
| 7 | a-kan-na ERIM-MEŠ-šu₂ | |
| 8 | {1}{d}AG—MU—SUM-na {lu₂}GAL—bir-ti {lu₂}GAL—bir-ti | |
| 9 | i-ta-bak u₃ ERIM-MEŠ | |
| 10 | LUGAL gab-bi ma-la ⸢ba-šu₂-u₂⸣ | |
| 11 | i-hal-li-⸢qu⸣-[ma] | |
| 12 | ul u₂-tar-⸢ra⸣ [x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1 | {mi₂}ka-li {[mi₂}DAM-su] | |
| 2 | ša₂ {1}na-tan-nu u₃ [DUMU-MEŠ-šu₂] | |
| 3 | it-ti-šu₂ a-du-⸢u₂⸣ [x x] | |
| 4 | ina pa-ni-šu₂ ⸢x⸣+[x x x] | |
| 5 | ul i-man-gur ul u₂-tar-⸢ra⸣ | |
| 6 | en-na a-du-u₂ a-na LUGAL be-li₂-ia₂ | |
| 7 | al-tap-ra LUGAL liq-bi-ma | |
| 8 | ERIM-MEŠ ša₂ {1}na-tan-nu | |
| 9 | la i-hal-li-iq | |
| 10 | lu-u₂-tir-ru-nu | |
Sources & licences
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