ABL 0140 (P334086)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0140 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334086 |
| 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/saa16 · 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 servants Nabû-ra'im-nišešu and Salamanu. Good health to the king, our lord! May Nabû and Marduk bless the king, our lord. |
| Obverse [5:10] o 66–o 1010 | As to the deserters whom the governor of Der sent to me (and) about whom the king, my lord, wrote to me: "Interrogate them!" — we have interrogated them. |
| Obverse [10:22] o 1111– | Bur-Silâ, 'third man' of the crown prince; Kudurru, servant of Mannaipite, likewise a 'third man' of the crown prince. Total two Elamites. Rama-il, a man from Arrapha, chariot fighter of the governor, Addiqritušu, (and) servants of Iairu, the Gambulean: |
| Reverse [4:7] r 55–r 77 | Fifteen deserters whom the governor of Der sent to me. |
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 be-li₂-ia | |
| 2 | ARAD-MEŠ-ka {1}{d}PA—AG₂—UN-MEŠ-šu₂ | |
| 3 | u₃ {1}sa-la-ma-nu | |
| 4 | lu-u DI-mu a-na LUGAL be-li₂-ni | |
| 5 | {d}PA u {d}AMAR.UTU a-na LUGAL be-li₂-ni | |
| 6 | lik-ru-bu ina UGU {lu₂v}ma-aq-tu-te | |
| 7 | ša {lu₂v}EN.NAM ša {uru}de-ri | |
| 8 | u₂-še-bi-la-an-ni | |
| 9 | ša LUGAL be-li₂ iš-pur-an-ni | |
| 10 | ma-a ša₂-al ni-is-sa-al | |
| 11 | {1}bur-si-la-a {lu₂v}03-šu₂ ša DUMU—MAN DUMU—MAN | |
| 12 | {1}ku-dur₂-ru ARAD ša {1}man-na-i-pi-te | |
| 13 | {lu₂v}03-šu₂ ša DUMU—MAN DUMU—MAN | |
| 14 | PAB 02 {lu₂v}NIM.MA-a.a | |
| 15 | {1}ra-me—DINGIR | |
| b.e. | ||
| 16 | {[uru]}arrap-ha-a.a | |
| r | ||
| 1 | {lu₂v}A—SIG {lu₂v}A—SIG ša {lu₂v}EN.NAM | |
| 2 | {1}ad-di-iq-ri-tu₂-šu₂ | |
| 3 | ARAD-MEŠ ša {1}ia-i-ru | |
| 4 | {lu₂v}gam-bu-la-a.a | |
| 5 | 15 {lu₂v}ma-aq-tu-te | |
| 6 | ša {lu₂v}EN.NAM ša {uru}de-ri | |
| 7 | u₂-še-bi-la-an-ni | |
Sources & licences
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