ABL 0098 (P334047)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0098 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334047 |
| 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 [5:12] o 66–o 1212 | (As to) what the king, my lord, wrote to me: "[Let] this messenger of yours whom you sent to Birat together with his cavalry [...] the Hamranu tribe" — my messenger [...... |
| Reverse [1:5] r 2'2'–r 5'5' | from [......] of the city of M[unu' ...] on the 21st of [......] at his behest. |
| Reverse [5:9] r 6'6'–r 9'9' | The day they ente[red ..., my] messenger was taken captive. The chief ... o[f ...] who was there [...] with him; |
| Reverse [9:14] r 10'10'– | Haqi[... rel]eased him in Munu' and wro[te]: "Send me silver!" He is in Munu'; I am now sending the silver. |
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\t LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 2 | ARAD-ka {1}DUG₃.GA—ṣil—E₂.ŠAR₂ o | |
| 3 | lu DI-mu a-na\t LUGAL EN-ia₂ | |
| 4 | aš-šur {d}NIN.LIL₂ a-na LUGAL | |
| 5 | EN-ia lik-ru-bu\t | |
| 6 | ša LUGAL EN iš-pur-a-ni | |
| 7 | ma-a {lu₂v}A—KIN-ka {lu₂v}A—KIN-ka {lu₂v}A—KIN-ka | |
| 8 | ša a-na\t {kur}bi-ra-a-te | |
| 9 | ⸢taš⸣-pur-u₂-ni ma-a šu-u | |
| 10 | [a-di] {⸢anše⸣}BAD-HAL-šu₂ | |
| 11 | [TA {kur]}ha-mar-a-na\t-a.a | |
| 12 | [x x x {lu₂v]}A—KIN\t-⸢ia {lu₂v]}A—KIN\t-⸢ia {lu₂v]}A—KIN\t-⸢ia i⸣-[x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | e-[x x x x x x x] | |
| 2' | TA@v\m ŠA₃ ⸢x⸣+[x x x]+⸢x⸣ | |
| 3' | ša {uru}⸢mu⸣-[nu-uʾ x x x x] | |
| 4' | UD 21-KAM₂ ša {⸢iti⸣}[x x] | |
| 5' | ina UGU ṣa-hi-i-ti-šu₂ [x x x] | |
| 6' | UD-mu ša e-ru-[bu-u-ni] | |
| 7' | {lu₂vm}A—⸢KIN⸣-[ia {lu₂vm}A—⸢KIN⸣-[ia {lu₂vm}A—⸢KIN⸣-[ia x x x] | |
| 8' | ha-bit {lu₂v}EN.⸢x ša⸣ | |
| 9' | ša ina ŠA₃-bi i-si-šu₂ [x x] | |
| 10' | ina {uru}mu-nu-uʾ {1}ha-⸢qi\t⸣-[x] | |
| r.e. | ||
| 11 | [ip]-⸢ta⸣-ṭar-šu₂ i-sa-⸢ṭar⸣ | |
| 12 | ⸢ma⸣-a KUG.UD še-bi-la | |
| 13 | ina {uru}mu-nu-uʾ šu₂\d-u | |
| 14 | an-nu-rig KUG.UD u₂-še-bal | |
Sources & licences
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