ABL 0206 (P334150)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0206 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334150 |
| 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 Nabû-uṣall[a]. Good health to the king, my lord! |
| Obverse [3:9] o 44–o 99 | Three powerful men of the Kummeans have come and had an audience with me and Mar-Issar, the royal bodyguard. Here is what they said to me: |
| Obverse [9:21] o 1010– | "Our people may go where the king said, but your messenger should take us to the Palace. There is a matter [concerning] another country we (wish to) discuss [in] the king's [pres]ence. [...] ...; we [will] not tell it to you, [n]or will we tell it to the royal bodyguard. |
| Reverse [2:7] r 33–r 77 | "Else if you do not take us to the Palace, sooner or later we shall say to the king: |
| Reverse [7:11] r 88–r 1111 | "'We spoke with the governor and the royal bodyguard, but they did not agree to bring us to the Palace'." |
| Reverse [11:12] r 1212–r 1212 | What are the king my lord's orders? |
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\p be-li₂-ia | |
| 2 | ARAD-ka {1}{d}PA—u₂\p-ṣal-⸢la⸣ | |
| 3 | lu DI\d-mu a-na LUGAL be-li₂-ia | |
| 4 | 03 {lu₂v}ERIM-MEŠ\p dan-nu-ti\t šu₂-nu | |
| 5 | ša\d {lu₂v}ku-um-ma-a.a | |
| 6 | i-tal-ku-ni ina pa-ni-ia | |
| 7 | ina pa-an {1}DUMU—{d}15 {lu₂v}qur-bu-ti\t | |
| 8 | i-ti\t-ti\t-su\t | |
| 9 | ki an-ni-e iq-ṭi₂\p-bu-u₂\p-⸢ni⸣ | |
| 10 | ma-a UN-MEŠ-ni E₂ LUGAL\p | |
| 11 | iq-bu-u₂-ni lil-li\td-ku | |
| 12 | ma a-na na-ši {lu₂v}A—KIN-ka {lu₂v}A—KIN-ka | |
| 13 | ina E₂.GAL lu-bi-la-na-ši | |
| 14 | ma a-bu-tu₂ ši-i | |
| 15 | [ša] KUR ša₂-ni-ti\t | |
| 16 | [ina pa]-⸢an⸣ LUGAL\p ni-qa-bi | |
| 17 | [ma x x]+⸢x⸣-ka ša GIR₃.2 | |
| 18 | [la-a] ⸢ni⸣-qa-ba-ka | |
| r | ||
| 1 | [ma] a-na {⸢lu₂v}qur⸣-bu-ti\t-ma | |
| 2 | ⸢la⸣-a ni-qa-bi | |
| 3 | ⸢ma⸣-a u₂\p-la-a ina E₂.GAL | |
| 4 | ⸢la⸣ tu₂-bi-la-na-a-ši | |
| 5 | ma-a ina ši-a-ri | |
| 6 | ina li\d-di-iš | |
| 7 | ina pa-an LUGAL\p ni-qa-bi | |
| 8 | ma-a pa-an {lu₂vy}EN.NAM\p | |
| 9 | pa-an {lu₂v}qur-bu-ti\t | |
| 10 | ni-iq-ṭi₂-bi ma-a la im-ma-gur₂ | |
| 11 | ina E₂.GAL la-a u₂-ba\t-lu-na-ši | |
| 12 | mi-i-nu ša\d LUGAL be-li\d | |
| 13 | i-qa-bu-ni | |
Sources & licences
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