ABL 0205 (P334149)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0205 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334149 |
| 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 [0:2] o 1o 1–o 22 | To the king, my lord: your servant Issar-šumu-iqiša. |
| Obverse [2:7] o 33–o 77 | The emissaries of the Zikirtean (king) are now coming; the messengers of the Urarṭian who had gone to the [Zi]kirtean are coming with them as captives. |
| Obverse [7:12] o 88–o 1212 | I have had money brought up and deposited in the stronghold, (relying) on the word of the Zikirtean, who said: "I shall sell you the horses in Paššate." |
| Obverse [12:19] o 1313– | Now let it be impressed upon the emissaries, as the emissaries are trying hard to back out of their word, claiming: "We have not heard about (such a promise) by our lord." |
| Reverse [3:7] r 44–r 77 | The king should ask the second emissary; he knows that he gave the order to the commander-in-chief. |
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}15—MU—BA-ša₂ | |
| 3 | an-nu-rig\t {lu₂}MAH-MEŠ\m | |
| 4 | {lu₂vy}zi-gir₂-ta-a.a DU-u-ni | |
| 5 | {lu₂vy}DUMU—šip-ra-ni {lu₂vy}DUMU—šip-ra-ni ša\dm {kur}URI\dm-a.a | |
| 6 | ša\dm ina UGU {lu₂vy}[zi]-gir₂-ta-a.a | |
| 7 | DU-u-ni ṣa-bu-tu₂ i-si-šu₂-nu | |
| 8 | DU-u-ni ina UGU KA | |
| 9 | ša\dm {lu₂vy}zi-gir₂-ta-a.a kas-pu | |
| 10 | u₂-se-li ina {uru}dan-ni-te | |
| 11 | a-sa-kan ma-a ana {kur}pa-aš₂-ša₂-te | |
| 12 | {anše}KUR.RA\t-MEŠ SUM-ka | |
| 13 | u₂-ma-a bir-ti\t IGI.2-MEŠ | |
| 14 | ša\dm {lu₂vy}MAH-MEŠ | |
| 15 | lu-u-ma-di-du | |
| r | ||
| 1 | ma-aʾ-da\d {lu₂vy}MAH-MEŠ | |
| 2 | KA-šu₂-nu u₂\m-ša₂-bal-ku-tu₂ | |
| 3 | ma-a TA@v\m UGU ša\dm {lu₂vy}EN-ni | |
| 4 | la ni-iš\t-me a-na {lu₂vy}MAH | |
| 5 | 02-e LUGAL liš\d-al šu-u-tu₂ | |
| 6 | DU ZU a-ki a-na {lu₂vy}tur-tan | |
| 7 | ṭe₃-e-mu iš-kun-u-ni | |
Sources & licences
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