ABL 0215 (P334157)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0215 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334157 |
| 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 | The very best of health to the king, my lord! Your servant Hu-Tešub. |
| Obverse [2:5] o 33–o 55 | As to the news of the Urarṭians concerning which the king, my lord, wrote me: "[Write me] quickly whatever you have heard" — |
| Obverse [5:8] o 66–o 88 | (even) when I heard false ..., I wrote [to the kin]g, my lord! Now [...... on the ...th of] Marchesvan (VIII) |
| Obverse [8:9] o 99–o 99 | [...... the magn]ates |
| Reverse [0:1] r 1'1'–r 1'1' | [......the to]wn A[...] |
| Reverse [1:2] r 2'2'–r 2'2' | [...... have ...]ed the [...]s of the fort. |
| Reverse [2:7] r 3'3'–r 7'7' | "If [things have gone badly] for him, he will be sta[ying] in Mannea; [i]f things have gone well for him, he will have attacked the Zikirteans." |
| Reverse [7:8] r 8'8'–r 8'8' | This is what I have heard. |
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\y LUGAL EN-ia₂ a—dan-niš a—dan-niš | |
| 2 | lu-u DI-mu ARAD-ka {1}hu\d—te-šub | |
| 3 | ina UGU ṭe₃-e-me ša\yd {kur}URI\dm-a.a | |
| 4 | ⸢ša\yd⸣ LUGAL EN iš-pur-an-ni ma-a | |
| 5 | [mi]-i-nu ša\y taš-mu-u-ni ar₂-hiš | |
| 6 | [šup-ra] ki-i ⸢x⸣ sur-rat aš₂-mu-u-ni | |
| 7 | [a-na] ⸢LUGAL EN-ia₂ a⸣-sa-par u₂-ma-a | |
| 8 | [x x x x x x x] {⸢iti⸣}APIN | |
| 9 | [x x x x x x x {lu₂vy]}⸢GAL⸣-MEŠ | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [x x x x x x] {⸢uru⸣}a-⸢x⸣+[x x x] | |
| 2' | [x x x x x]-⸢MEŠ⸣ ša\ydm {uru}HAL.⸢ṢU⸣ | |
| 3' | [x x x x]-⸢u₂⸣ ma-a šum₂\p-ma o | |
| 4' | [in-ta-ra-ṣa]-aš₂-šu₂ ina {kur}man-na\t-a.a iz-za-⸢az⸣ | |
| 5' | [ma-a] ⸢šum₂⸣-mu i-ta-at-ra-ṣa-aš₂-šu₂ | |
| 6' | ina ⸢UGU⸣ {kur}zi-kir\p-ta-a.a | |
| 7' | iz-zu-qu-pu | |
| 8' | ki-i an-ni-e a-se-me | |
Sources & licences
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