ABL 0112 (P334060)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0112 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334060 |
| 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/saa05 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:3] o 1o 1–o 33 | To the Palace Herald, my lord: your servant Urda-Sin. |
| Obverse [3:13] o 44–o 1313 | The Cimmerian (king) has departed from Mannea this [...] and entered Urarṭu. He is ... [in] Hu'diadae; Sarduri is [...] in Ṭur[u]špâ. |
| Obverse [13:25] o 1414– | The messenger of the governor of Wais[i] has gone to Ur[za]na for [help], saying: "Let yo[ur] troops come to (aid) the people of Pulia and Suriana." |
| Reverse [5:14] r 66–r 1414 | All of Urarṭu is extremely frightened. They are assembling troops, saying: "Perhaps we can attack him, once there is more snow." |
| Reverse [14:22] r 1515– | As to this booty which they said he has taken, they do say that of the district of Arhi, [...]...... |
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 {lu₂}NIGIR₂—E₂.GAL {lu₂}NIGIR₂—E₂.GAL | |
| 2 | EN-ia | |
| 3 | ⸢ARAD⸣-ka {1}ARAD—{d}30 | |
| 4 | {[lu₂]}⸢ga⸣-me-ra-a.a | |
| 5 | ⸢x an⸣-ni\d-u₂ | |
| 6 | ⸢it-tu⸣-ṣi TA@v\m ŠA₃-bi | |
| 7 | {⸢kur}ma-na⸣-a.a | |
| 8 | ⸢ina ŠA₃-bi⸣ {kur}URI | |
| 9 | ⸢e⸣-tar-ba | |
| 10 | [ina] {⸢uru}hu⸣-uʾ-di-a-da-e | |
| 11 | [x x]+⸢x x x⸣ {1}{d}15—BAD₃ | |
| 12 | [ina] {⸢uru}ṭu-ru-uš-pa⸣-a | |
| 13 | [x] ⸢ŠA₃⸣ [x] ša₂-ki-ni | |
| 14 | {⸢lu₂}DUMU⸣—šip-ri {⸢lu₂}DUMU⸣—šip-ri | |
| 15 | ša₂ {lu₂}EN.NAM | |
| b.e. | ||
| 16 | {uru}u₂-e-⸢si⸣ | |
| 17 | UGU {1}ur-[za]-ni\d | |
| 18 | it-⸢tal⸣-[ka] | |
| r | ||
| 1 | ina UGU [kit-ri] | |
| 2 | ma-a ⸢e-mu⸣-qi-⸢ka⸣ | |
| 3 | lil-li\d-ku-ni\d | |
| 4 | ina UGU {uru}pu-li\d-a.a | |
| 5 | ina UGU {uru}su-ri-a-na-a.a | |
| 6 | {kur}URI\dd gab-bi-šu₂ | |
| 7 | ip-ta-lah₃ | |
| 8 | a—da\d-niš | |
| 9 | e-mu-qi u₂-pa-hu-ru\d | |
| 10 | ma-a i—su-ri\d | |
| 11 | ki-ma ku-pu\p-u | |
| 12 | i-di-i-ni\d | |
| 13 | ma-a ni\d-za-qu-pu | |
| 14 | ina UGU-hi-šu | |
| 15 | ina UGU hu-ub-ti\t | |
| 16 | an-ni-e | |
| r.e. | ||
| 17 | ša iq-bu\p-ni\d | |
| 18 | ma-a hu-ub-tu₂ | |
| 19 | ⸢ih⸣-ta-bat | |
| e. | ||
| 1 | i-ba-ši i-qab-bi-u ma-a ša₂ na-gi-e | |
| 2 | ša₂ {uru}⸢ar⸣-hi ⸢x x⸣-ši ma-a a-⸢di⸣ ZI kar ⸢ni⸣ | |
Sources & licences
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