ABL 0088 (P334037)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0088 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334037 |
| 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/saa01 · 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, my lord: your servant Ṭab-ṣill-Ešarra. Good health to the king, my lord! May Aššur and Mullissu bless the king, my lord! |
| Obverse [5:10] o 66–o 1010 | Nabu-bel-šumati, the legate of Birat entered the Inner City on the 7th. I asked him: "Why did you come now?" He said: |
| Obverse [10:23] o 1111– | "I got a royal message: 'Why is it that all (other) city-rulers have come and stood in my presence, but you have not come? Also, why is it that the Arabs plundered Sippar, but you did not go out with your servants but kept [them] away?' |
| Reverse [8:10] r 99–r 1010 | I was scared by this message and (that is why) I came." |
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 EN-ia | |
| 2 | ARAD-ka {1}DUG₃.GA—ṣil\m—E₂\d.ŠAR₂.RA\tdp | |
| 3 | lu DI-mu a-na LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 4 | aš-šur {d}NIN.LIL₂ a-na LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 5 | lik-ru\dp-bu\tp | |
| 6 | {1}{d}PA—[EN]—MU-MEŠ | |
| 7 | {lu₂}qe-e-pu\tp ša {uru}bi-rat | |
| 8 | UD 07-KAM₂ i-na {uru}ŠA₃—URU | |
| 9 | e-tar\td-ba a-sa-ʾa-al\d-⸢šu⸣ | |
| 10 | mu\p-uk\td a-ta\p-a a-kan-ni | |
| 11 | ta\p-li-ka ma-a a-bat LUGAL | |
| 12 | ina UGU-hi-ia ta\p-tal-ka | |
| 13 | ma-a a-ta\p-a {lu₂}EN—URU-MEŠ {lu₂}EN—URU-MEŠ {lu₂}EN—URU-MEŠ | |
| 14 | gab-bu\tp il-li-ku-u-[ni] | |
| r | ||
| 1 | i-na pa-ni-ia i-zi-⸢zu⸣ | |
| 2 | ma-a at-ta\p la ta\p-li-ka | |
| 3 | ma-a i-se-niš ma\d-a a-ta\p-a | |
| 4 | {kur}ar₂-pa-a.a hu-ub-tu | |
| 5 | ša {uru}si-par ih-bu\tp-tu₂-ni | |
| 6 | ma-a a-ta\p-a at-[ta] | |
| 7 | a-di {lu₂}ARAD-MEŠ-ka [la] | |
| 8 | tu-u-ṣi ta\p-bu\tp-uk\td-⸢šu₂⸣-[nu] | |
| 9 | ma-a ina UGU a-bi-te | |
| 10 | an-ni-te ap-ta\p-la-ah | |
| 11 | a-ta\p-al-ka | |
Sources & licences
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