ABL 1059 (P240335)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 1059 |
|---|---|
| ID | P240335 |
| 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/saa21 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:2] 1'1'–2'2' | [Concerning what the king, my lord, wrote to me: “]Send the boy servant Kuṣuranni-Nabû into my presence!” — |
| Obverse [2:14] 3'3'– | I have [not] held him back but am now sending him into the presence of the king, my lord. I am a poor man; let the king give orders to equip him. Let the king not select him for Marduk-šarru-uṣur but assign him to the governor of Arrapha. |
| Reverse [1:5] r 22–r 55 | And may the king know from this that I have returned to Assyria. |
| Reverse [5:8] r 66–r 88 | [As to what] the king told me, “Write me whether they gave you seed or whether they did not give it to you” — |
| Reverse [8:12] r 99–r 1212 | they told me, “[I]’ll give it to you right now, but I do not measure [...]” |
| Reverse [12:14] r 1313–r 1414 | [N]ow that [......] |
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' | ⸢x⸣ {1}⸢KAD₃-an-ni—{d}AG⸣ 0 | |
| 2' | {[lu₂]}TUR a-na pa-ni-ia šup-ra | |
| 3' | [la] ak-li a-du-u₂ | |
| 4' | [a]-na pa-an LUGAL be-li₂-ia₂ | |
| 5' | ⸢al⸣-tap-raš-šu₂ a-na-ku | |
| 6' | muš-ke-ne₂-ku LUGAL | |
| 7' | ṭe₃-e-mu liš-kun-ma | |
| 8' | lu-ša₂-aṣ-bi-tu-šu₂ | |
| 9' | a-na UGU {1}{d}AMAR.UTU—LUGAL—ŠEŠ | |
| 10' | LUGAL la im-mar-šu₂ | |
| 11' | a-na {lu₂}EN.NAM | |
| 12' | ša₂ {uru}arrap-ha | |
| r | ||
| 1 | LUGAL lip-qid-su | |
| 2 | u₃ ul-tu UGU-hi | |
| 3 | LUGAL lu-u₂ i-di | |
| 4 | ša₂ a-na-ku a-na KUR—{d}aš-šur | |
| 5 | a-tu-ru | |
| 6 | [ša₂] LUGAL iq-ba-a um-($erased ma$) | |
| 7 | ⸢ki⸣-i {še}NUMUN it-tan-nu-ni-⸢ik-ka⸣ | |
| 8 | u₃ ki-i la it-tan-nu-ni-⸢ik-ka⸣ | |
| 9 | ⸢šup⸣-ra iq-ta-bu-u₂-nu | |
| 10 | ⸢um⸣-ma a-du-u₂ | |
| 11 | [a]-nam-dak-ka u₃ | |
| 12 | [x]-nu ul a-maš-šah | |
| 13 | [en]-na ki-i [x x x x x] | |
| 14 | [x x] ⸢x⸣ [x] ⸢x⸣ [x x x x x] | |
Sources & licences
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