ABL 0468 (P240149)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0468 |
|---|---|
| ID | P240149 |
| 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 | [To the king, our lord: your servants Nabû-ahhe-lumur] and [NN. Good health] to the king, our lord. The city and the guard of the king, our lord, are well. |
| Obverse [5:8] o 66–o 88 | Perhaps the king will say: "Why have you not sent me any news?" |
| Obverse [8:14] o 99–o 1414 | When Hulala, the 'temple-enterer' of Šamaš, went away, he took with him the golden heaven from Babylon. The priests of Bel have [...] with him ... [...] |
| Reverse [1:6] r 1'1'–r 5'5' | [Having] raised [an attack] against us, they seized the golden heaven on top of it, and brought the heaven here from Esaggil. |
| Reverse [6:15] r 6'6'–r 14'14' | The princes who lead us have made the lands starve, (so that) the Lihuateans and the Hamaraneans, (and) the entire land now say: "We shall not make peace until they make the town of Ganata ours! [...] us [...]" |
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-ni] | |
| 2 | [ARAD-MEŠ-ka {1}{d}AG—ŠEŠ-MEŠ—lu-mur] | |
| 3 | u₃ {1}[x x x lu-u₂ šul-mu] | |
| 4 | a-na LUGAL ⸢be-li₂-ni šul⸣-mu | |
| 5 | a-na URU u₃ EN.NUN ša₂ LUGAL be-li₂-ni | |
| 6 | min-de-e-ma LUGAL i-qab-bi | |
| 7 | um-ma mi-nam-ma ṭe₃-e-ma | |
| 8 | la taš-pu-ra-a-ni | |
| 9 | {1}hu-la-la {lu₂}TU—E₂ {lu₂}TU—E₂ | |
| 10 | ša₂ {d}UTU ki-i il-li-ku-u₂ | |
| 11 | AN-e ša₂ KUG.GI ul-tu | |
| 12 | {uru}TIN.TIR{ki} it-ta-ša₂-⸢aʾ⸣ | |
| 13 | u₃ {lu₂}SANGA-MEŠ ša₂ {d}⸢EN⸣ | |
| 14 | ⸢it-ti⸣-šu₂ i-⸢x⸣+[x x x] | |
| r | ||
| 0' | [x x x x x ti-ba] | |
| 1' | ⸢a-na UGU⸣-i-[ni ki-i] | |
| 2' | u₂-še-te-bu-u₂ ⸢AN⸣-[e ša₂] | |
| 3' | KUG.GI e-le-nu-⸢uš⸣-[šu₂] | |
| 4' | iṣ-ṣa-bat AN-e ul-tu | |
| 5' | E₂.SAG.IL₂ it-ta-šu₂-nu | |
| 6' | {lu₂}NUN-MEŠ ša₂ i-re-du-u₂-nu | |
| 7' | KUR-MEŠ ub-te-ru-u₂ u₃ | |
| 8' | {lu₂}li-hu-u₂-a-ta-a.a u₃ | |
| 9' | {lu₂}ha-ma-ra-na-a.a KUR gab-bi-šu₂ | |
| 10' | i-dab-bu-bu-u₂ um-ma | |
| 11' | ul ni-se-li-mu um-ma | |
| 12' | a-ki {uru}ga-na-ta | |
| 13' | ip-pu-šu₂-na-šu₂ um-ma | |
| 14' | [x x x]+⸢x⸣ [x]+⸢x⸣ [x]-⸢na⸣-šu₂ | |
Sources & licences
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