ABL 0128 (P334076)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0128 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334076 |
| 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/saa15 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:7] o 1o 1–o 77 | To the king, my lord: your servant Mannu-ki-Ninua. Good health to the king, my lord! The land of the king my lord is well. The Medes around us are peaceful, and we are doing our work. |
| Obverse [7:15] o 88–o 1515 | Concerning what the king, my lord, wrote to me: "Go to meet Šarru-emuranni, he will entrust you the son of Ludû. No human being must see him until you have brought him into Kar-Šarrukin!" — I went into the Pass to meet him, and he entrusted the son of Ludû to me. Nobody saw him before I had brought him into Kar-Šarrukin. |
| Obverse [15:20] o 1616–o 2020 | And concerning what the king, my lord, wrote to me: "Write to Ludû: 'They have wri[tten to me] about it angrily from the Palace, saying [......]'" — |
| Reverse [1:3] r 2'2'–r 3'3' | "[...... and] lay [it] in Kimar!" [The ...s] are all peaceful and doing [their work]. |
| Reverse [3:9] r 4'4'–r 9'9' | Concerning the people of [NN] about whom the king, my lord, wrote to me, I have writ[ten] to the son of Irtukkanu. If he sends the people, I shall send them to the king, my lord. If not, I shall write to the king, my lord, whatever it is. |
| Reverse [9:15] r 10'10'–r 15'15' | As to the harvest about which the king, my lord, wrote to me: "Why have you not written to me how it is?" — the harvest has sprouted, (but) the ... is badly ravaged ..., and it is raining and snowing continually. |
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\d be-li₂-ia | |
| 2 | ARAD-ka {1}man-nu—ki-i—{uru}ni-nu-a | |
| 3 | lu šul-mu a-na LUGAL be-li₂-ia | |
| 4 | šul-mu a-na KUR ša LUGAL be-li₂-a | |
| 5 | {lu₂v}mat-a.a ša bat-te-bat-te-e-ni | |
| 6 | ne₂-e-hu u₃ a-ne₂-e-nu | |
| 7 | dul-li-in-ni ne₂-pa-aš₂ | |
| 8 | ša\m LUGAL be-li₂ iš-pur-an-ni ma-a ina ir-ti\t | |
| 9 | {1}MAN—IGI-a-ni a-lik ma-a DUMU {1}lu-du-u₂ | |
| 10 | i-pa-qi-dak₃-ka ma-a NUMUN LU₂-u₂-tu₂ | |
| 11 | lu la e-mar-šu₂ a-du a-na {uru}kar—{1}MAN—GIN | |
| 12 | tu-še-ra-bu\t-šu₂-u-ni a-du ŠA₃ ne₂-re-bi | |
| 13 | ina ir-ti\t-šu₂ at-ta-lak DUMU {1}lu-du-u₂ | |
| 14 | ip-ta-aq-da me-me-ni la e-mur-šu₂ | |
| 15 | a-du a-na {uru}kar—{1}MAN—GIN u₂-še-ri-bu\t-šu₂-ni | |
| 16 | u₃ ša\m LUGAL be-li₂ iš-pur-an-ni | |
| 17 | ma-a ina UGU {1}lu-du-u₂ šu-up-⸢ru⸣ | |
| 18 | ma-a TA\m E₂.GAL ina UGU i-⸢sa⸣-[ap-ru-ni] | |
| 19 | ir-tu-u₂-bu-u-ni ma-a [x x x x] | |
| 20 | [x x] ⸢x x x x⸣ [x x x x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [x x]+⸢x x⸣+[x x x x x x x] | |
| 2' | ina {uru}ki-mar ⸢ku⸣-ru\d šu-[x x x] | |
| 3' | gab-bu ne₂-e-hu dul-la-aš₂-[šu₂-nu] | |
| 4' | e-pu\t-šu₂ ina UGU UN-MEŠ ša\m {1}⸢x⸣+[x x x] | |
| 5' | ša LUGAL be-li₂ iš-pur-an-ni a-sap-[ra] | |
| 6' | ina UGU DUMU {1}ir-tuk-ka-a-nu šum₂-ma | |
| 7' | UN-MEŠ u₂-se-bi-la ina UGU LUGAL be-li₂-⸢a⸣ | |
| 8' | u₂-še-ba-la-aš₂-šu₂-nu u₂-la-a | |
| 9' | mi-i-ni ši-ti\t-ni a-na LUGAL be-li₂-a | |
| 10' | a-šap-pa-ra ina UGU {še}e-bu\t-ri | |
| 11' | ša LUGAL be-li₂ iš-pur-an-ni ma-a mi₃-ni | |
| 12' | ši-ti\t-ni a-ta-a la ta-aš₂-pu\t-ra | |
| 13' | {še}e-bu\t-ru\d pu\t-ru\d-uʾ kan-nu | |
| 14' | ma-hi-iṣ a—dan-niš da-ii-qi MU | |
| 15' | u₃ A.AN-MEŠ ku-pu\t-u₂ a-<$x$> | |
| 16' | ka-a.a-ma-nu i-za-nu-un-nu | |
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