ABL 0169 (P334115)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0169 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334115 |
| 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 ki]ng, my lord: [your servant Na]bû-belu-ka''in. [Good health t]o the king, my lord! |
| Obverse [3:11] o 44–o 1111 | [The letter which] the king, my lord, [se]nt to me, saying: "Dispatch a copy of it [to] Nabû-iqiša, and let him copy it and [disp]atch it [t]o the royal delegate of Araši" — the letter of his [which] he dispatched [has disappeared] from the hands of his messenger, and no[bo]dy knows [...]. |
| Obverse [11:17] o 1212–o 1717 | Two [...]s who came ... [have to]ld me: "The king, my lord, [...] the cohort commanders [who we]nt (there); they have been ki[l]led. [...] has collected them, they are [......]" |
| Reverse [0:1] r 1'1'–r 1'1' | [The king's magnates who we]nt [......] have entered [E]llipi. |
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⸣ EN-ia₂ | |
| 2 | [ARAD-ka {1}{d]}⸢AG⸣—EN—GIN-in | |
| 3 | [lu DI-mu a]-na LUGAL EN-ia₂ | |
| 4 | [e-gir₂-tu₂ ša] LUGAL be-li₂ | |
| 5 | [u₂-še-bi]-⸢la⸣-an-ni ma-a gab-ra-a-ša₂ | |
| 6 | [a-na] {1}{d}AG—BA-ša₂ še-bi-il | |
| 7 | ⸢ma⸣-a šu-u ip—pi-it-ti\t ip—pi-it-ti\t liš-ṭur | |
| 8 | [ina] ⸢UGU⸣ {lu₂v}qe-e-pi ša\d {[kur]}a-ra-ši | |
| 9 | [lu-še]-bi-il e-⸢gir₂-tu⸣-šu | |
| 10 | [ša] u₂\m-še-bi-lu-u-ni ⸢TA⸣ ŠU.2 | |
| 11 | {[lu₂v]}A—KIN-e-šu₂ {[lu₂v]}A—KIN-e-šu₂ ⸢x⸣+[x x] ⸢x⸣ [x] | |
| 12 | [me]-⸢me-ni⸣ la u₂\m-da 02 {lu₂v⸣}[x x]+⸢x ša x⸣ il-lik-u-ni-ni | |
| 13 | [iq-ṭi]-⸢bu⸣-u-ni ma-a {lu₂v}GAL—ki-ṣir\p-MEŠ {lu₂v}GAL—ki-ṣir\p-MEŠ | |
| 14 | [ša] ⸢il⸣-lik-u-ni LUGAL ⸢be-li₂⸣ | |
| 15 | [x x x]-ni ma-a id-[du]-ku-šu₂-nu | |
| 16 | [x x x x] e-te-si-ip-šu-nu | |
| 17 | [x x x x x x x x x] šu-nu | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [x x x x x]-⸢ku⸣-u-ni | |
| 2' | [ina {kur]}⸢el-li⸣-pi e-tar-bu | |
Sources & licences
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