ABL 0194 (P334139)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0194 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334139 |
| 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 [0:3] o 1o 1–o 33 | [To the king], my lord: [your servant] Na'di-ilu. [Good health] to the king, my lord! |
| Obverse [3:6] o 44–o 66 | [As to] Naṣib-Il [about whom] the king, my lord, wrote me: "In [......] |
| Obverse [8:9] o 99–o 99 | "Afterwa[rds, he should k]eep [watch over them]." |
| Obverse [9:10] o 1010–o 1010 | He does not [obey] me at all and is not [assembling th]em. |
| Obverse [10:24] o 1111– | Before I visi[ted the king], my [lo]rd, he used to enter my [court]; I sent him on various errands, and he stayed [in] my presence. Let the king, my lord, write him [as] follows: "Assemble the whole Bit-Amukani, stay with the chief cupbearer, and do whatever he commands you!" |
| Reverse [6:15] r 77–r 1515 | Let the king, my lord, (also) send a letter to Šarru-emuranni; he should assemble the whole Bit-Amukani and say to them as follows: "Why do you not obey [N]aṣib-Il regarding the [ki]ng's work?" |
| Reverse [15:17] r 1616–r 1717 | [H]e told me that the men [do not] obey him. |
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-ka {1}I—DINGIR | |
| 3 | [lu šul-mu] a-na LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 4 | [ina UGU] {1}⸢na\t⸣-ṣib—DINGIR | |
| 5 | [ša] ⸢LUGAL⸣ be-li₂ ⸢iš-pur⸣-an-ni | |
| 6 | [ma-a] ⸢ina⸣ ša\dm [x x x x]+⸢x⸣ | |
| 7 | [x x] tu [x x x x]+⸢x⸣ | |
| 8 | [x]+⸢x⸣ me ⸢x⸣+[x x x x]+⸢x⸣ | |
| 9 | ina ⸢da-ti⸣ [EN.NUN-šu₂-nu] ⸢li⸣-ṣur | |
| 10 | la-aš₂-šu₂ [la i-ša₂-man]-ni | |
| 11 | la ⸢u₂⸣-[pa-har-šu₂]-⸢nu⸣ | |
| 12 | ina E₂\d [ina IGI LUGAL be]-li₂-ia | |
| 13 | la ⸢al⸣-[lik-u-ni šu]-⸢tu₂⸣ | |
| 14 | e-rab [ina IGI]-⸢ia⸣ | |
| 15 | ZAG\m u KAB\y a-⸢sa-na\t⸣-par-šu₂ | |
| 16 | [ina] IGI-ia i-za-az\d | |
| 17 | ⸢ki⸣-i an-ni-e | |
| r | ||
| 1 | ⸢LUGAL⸣ be-li₂ liš\d-pur-aš₂-šu | |
| 2 | ma-a E₂—{1}u₂-kan-a.a | |
| 3 | gab-bu pa-hi-ir | |
| 4 | ma-a ina IGI {lu₂v}GAL—KAŠ.LUL {lu₂v}GAL—KAŠ.LUL | |
| 5 | it-zi ma-a mi-nu | |
| 6 | ša\dm i-qa-ba-kan-ni e-pu-uš | |
| 7 | LUGAL be-li₂ e-gir₂-tu₂ | |
| 8 | ina UGU {1}MAN—IGI.LAL-ni | |
| 9 | liš\d-pu-ra E₂\m—{1}u₂-kan-a.a | |
| 10 | gab-bu\t lu-pa-hi-ra | |
| 11 | ki-i an-ni-e | |
| 12 | ⸢li⸣-qi\m-ba-aš₂-šu₂-nu | |
| 13 | [ma] a-ta-a a-na | |
| 14 | {1}⸢na⸣-ṣib—DINGIR ina UGU dul-li\d | |
| 15 | ⸢LUGAL⸣ la ta-ša₂-me-a | |
| 16 | [šu]-tu₂ iq-ṭi-bi-a | |
| 17 | [ma]-⸢a⸣ {lu₂vy}ERIM-MEŠ | |
| 18 | [la] i-ša₂-mu-u-ni | |
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