ABL 0165 (P334111)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0165 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334111 |
| 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 [0:3] o 1o 1–o 33 | To the king, my lord: your servant Nabû-remanni. Good health to the king, my lord! |
| Obverse [3:5] o 44–o 55 | I met a messenger from Parsua (who told me): "The Zalipaeans have come forth; they have come forth with 100 ho[rs]es in their hands. Four men from among them ran away to the desert and came to Nikkur, (where) they said: 'We have brought horses from our country, but the Mannean has detained (them) inside his country.'" |
| Obverse [5:12] o 66– | I am now writing to the king, my lord: Let the king, my lord, send a bodyguard to listen to what the Zal[ipaeans] have to say. Perhaps they will bring [the horses] out. |
| Bottom [0:17] b.e. 12b.e. 12– | I shall supply the [de]ficit of the king, [my] l[ord]. |
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 be-li₂-ia | |
| 2 | ARAD-ka {1}{d}PA—rem₂-a-ni | |
| 3 | lu DI-mu a-na\t LUGAL be-li-ia₂ | |
| 4 | {lu₂vy}A—KIN\t {lu₂vy}A—KIN\t TA@v\m {kur}par-su-a | |
| 5 | ina GABA-ia i-tal-ka | |
| 6 | ma-a {kur}za-li\d-pa-a.a | |
| 7 | i-tu₂-ṣu-u-ni | |
| 8 | ma-a 01 ⸢me {anšed⸣}[KUR].⸢RA⸣-MEŠ | |
| 9 | ina ŠU.2-šu₂-nu ⸢i⸣-[tu₂]-ṣu-u-ni | |
| 10 | ma-a 04 {lu₂vy}ERIM-MEŠ | |
| 11 | TA\m ŠA₃-bi-šu₂-nu | |
| b.e. | ||
| 12 | a-na mu-da-bi-⸢ri⸣ | |
| 13 | ih-ta-al\d-qu-⸢ni⸣ | |
| r | ||
| 1 | i-tal-ku-u-ni | |
| 2 | ina {uru}ni-kur iq-ṭi₂-bi-u₂ | |
| 3 | ma-a {anšed}KUR.RA-MEŠ TA@v\m KUR-i-ni | |
| 4 | nu-se-ṣi-a ma-a {kur}man-na-a.a | |
| 5 | ina qa-ab-si KUR-šu₂ ik-ta-la | |
| 6 | an-nu-rig a-na LUGAL be-li₂-ia₂ | |
| 7 | a-sa-ap-ra | |
| 8 | LUGAL EN-li {lu₂vy}qur-bu-te | |
| 9 | liš-pu-ra ša pe-e | |
| 10 | ša {kur}za-⸢li⸣-[pa-a.a] | |
| 11 | liš-me i—su-[ri {anše}KUR.RA-MEŠ] | |
| 12 | u₂-še-ṣu-ni a-[na-ku] | |
| r.e. | ||
| 13 | ⸢bat⸣-qu ša LUGAL ⸢be⸣-[li₂-ia] | |
| 14 | a-ka-ṣar | |
Sources & licences
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