ABL 0123 (P334071)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0123 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334071 |
| 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 [0:2] o 1o 1–o 22 | To the king, my lord: your servant Gabbu-ana-Aššur. |
| Obverse [2:13] o 33–o 1313 | As to the orders that the king, my lord, gave me concerning the watch of the Urarṭian, ever since I entered Kurbail my messengers have been going back and forth to Nabû-le'i, Aššur-belu-uda''an and Aššur-reṣuwa. |
| Obverse [13:19] o 1414– | We have not [gotten] a whiff of anybody or anything. Everybody is doing h[is] work, there is no hostility at all. |
| Reverse [0:9] r 1r 1–r 99 | We keep hearing as follows: "The Urarṭian has not come out of Ṭurušpâ." Nevertheless, [w]e are ke[eping] the watch about which the k[ing, my lord,] ga[ve] me orders — we are not negligent. |
| Reverse [9:13] r 1010–r 1313 | I arrived in Kurbail on the 16th day of Tammuz (IV), and am sending (this) letter to the king, my lord, on the 20th of Ab (V). |
Transliteration (ATF)
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| Line | ATF | Machine English (draft) |
|---|---|---|
| o | ||
| 1 | a-na\t LUGAL\d EN-ia | |
| 2 | ARAD-ka {1}gab-bu—ana—aš-šur | |
| 3 | ina UGU ṭe₃-e-me | |
| 4 | ša\d LUGAL\d EN iš-ku-na-ni-ni | |
| 5 | ina UGU ma-ṣar\m-ti | |
| 6 | ša\d {kur}u₂\m-ra-ar-ṭa-a.a | |
| 7 | TA@v\m E₂ ina {uru}kur-ba\t-il₃ | |
| 8 | e-ru\d-bu-u-ni | |
| 9 | {lu₂vy}DUMU—šip-ra\p-ni-ia {lu₂vy}DUMU—šip-ra\p-ni-ia | |
| 10 | ina UGU {1}{d}PA—ZU | |
| 11 | ina UGU {1}aš-šur—EN—KALAG-an | |
| 12 | ina UGU {1}aš-šur—re-ṣu-⸢u-a⸣ | |
| 13 | il-lu-ku il-la-ku-u-ni | |
| 14 | ši-⸢ir⸣—šu-me-e ši-⸢ir⸣—šu-me-e | |
| 15 | ša\d ⸢LU₂⸣ ša\d ⸢me⸣-me-ni | |
| 16 | la ne₂-[ṣi-in] ⸢ia⸣-mu-ut-tum | |
| 17 | dul-lu-⸢šu⸣ [ep]-pa-aš₂ | |
| 18 | gir₂-ru\d-tu₂ me-me-ni la-a-šu₂ | |
| r | ||
| 1 | a-ki an-ni-e | |
| 2 | ni-sa-⸢nam⸣-me | |
| 3 | ma-a {kur}u₂\m-ra\p-ar-ṭa-a.a | |
| 4 | TA ŠA₃ {uru}ṭu-ru\d-uš-pi-a | |
| 5 | la u₂\m-ṣi-a | |
| 6 | u₃ [a]-⸢ni⸣-nu ma-ṣar\m-tu₂ | |
| 7 | ša\dp ⸢LUGAL⸣ [EN] ṭe₃-e-mu | |
| 8 | iš-[ku-na]-ni-ni | |
| 9 | ni-na\y-[ṣar] la ni-ši-aṭ | |
| 10 | UD 16-[KAM] ⸢ša⸣ {iti}ŠU | |
| 11 | ina {uru}kur-⸢ba-il₃⸣ aq-ṭi₂\p-rib | |
| 12 | UD 20-KAM\p ša\dy {iti}NE | |
| 13 | e-gir₂-tu₂ ina UGU LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 14 | a-sap-ra\p | |
Sources & licences
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