ABL 0749 (P240432)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0749 |
|---|---|
| ID | P240432 |
| 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 Nabû-ušallim: I would gladly die for the king, my lord! Say to the king, my lord: |
| Obverse [4:8] o 55–o 88 | Now the messengers of the son of Zeriya, who came here to gather news of the king, my lord, [have] against Kissi[k...] |
| Obverse [8:9] o 99–o 99 | all [...] |
| Reverse [3:11] r 4'4'–r 11'11' | As far as I am concerned — on the day that I went to the king, my lord, they were taken captive. Now they are in the care of Ma'umaya. The messenger of the king, my lord, should go to Ma'umaya and [release] them. |
| Reverse [11:12] r 12'12'–r 12'12' | I have [...] gathered very much straw. |
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}{d}AG—DI-im | |
| 2 | a-na di-na-an LUGAL be-li₂-ia₂ | |
| 3 | lul-lik um-ma-a | |
| 4 | a-na LUGAL be-li₂-ia₂-a-ma | |
| 5 | a-du-u₂ {lu₂}A—KIN-MEŠ {lu₂}A—KIN-MEŠ ša₂ DUMU {1}NUMUN-a.a | |
| 6 | ša₂ a-na ṭe₃-me-e-ti ša₂ LUGAL | |
| 7 | be-li₂-ia₂ il-li-ku-nu | |
| 8 | a-na UGU-hi {uru}ki-⸢si-ik⸣{[ki]} | |
| 9 | gab-⸢bu⸣ [x x x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | a-⸢na⸣ [x x x x x x] | |
| 2' | ⸢um⸣-[ma x x x x x x] | |
| 3' | [x x] bi [x x x x] | |
| 4' | [aš-šu₂ ŠA₃]-bu-u₂-a | |
| 5' | UD-mu ša₂ a-na pa-an LUGAL be-li₂-ia₂ | |
| 6' | al-lik hab-tu-u₂ | |
| 7' | en-na a-du-u₂ | |
| 8' | i-na pa-an {1}ma-ʾu-ma-a.a | |
| 9' | šu₂-⸢nu {lu₂⸣}A—KIN {lu₂⸣}A—KIN ša₂ LUGAL be-li₂-ia₂ | |
| 10' | a-⸢na pa⸣-an {1}ma-ʾu-ma-a.a | |
| 11' | lil-li-lik-ma | |
| 12' | [x x]-⸢šu₂⸣-nu {še}IN.NU ki-i—ma-di-i ki-i—ma-di-i | |
| 13' | [x x x x] up-ta-hir | |
Sources & licences
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