ABL 0243 (P334179)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0243 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334179 |
| 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 [0:4] o 1o 1–o 44 | To the king, my lord: your servant Aššur-belu-uda''an. Good health to the king, my lord! May Nabû and Marduk bless the king, my lord! |
| Obverse [4:12] o 55–o 1212 | On the 22nd day, I said: "I'll go and see the eyes of the king, my lord," (when) I met Kakkullanu the royal bodyguard, (who) turned me back from the town [A]lite, saying: "G[o] and release your troops: i[f] they do not go, [the] men will die of hunger!" |
| Obverse [12:17] o 1313–o 1717 | [...], I g[ave them] 5 months worth of stored grain; I also gave them 1 litre of oil, 1 litre of [bread, and 1 li]tre of cress [...]. |
| Obverse [17:20] o 1818– | [La]ter on, I de[parted ...... t]o the troop[s]; |
| Bottom [0:1] b.e. 20b.e. 20–b.e. 20b.e. 20 | they [en]tered [......] |
| Reverse [1:5] r 22–r 55 | lest they [starve]. They are [st]aying [in the en]virons of the city [...]; they cannot [depart] because of sn[ow]. |
| Reverse [5:8] r 66–r 88 | Now then they are going about and entering [the city] with Kakkullanu. |
| Reverse [8:14] r 99–r 1414 | As to what the king, my lord, wrote me: "Why is yo[ur] major-domo not there?" — the ten [city] lords about whom I spoke with the king, my lord, are extremely fierce; I did write to the king, my lord, in full earnest. |
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\t LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 2 | ARAD-ka {1}aš-šur—EN—KALAG-an | |
| 3 | lu-u DI-mu a-na\t MAN EN-ia | |
| 4 | {d}AG u {d}AMAR.UTU a-na\t MAN EN-ia | |
| 5 | lik-ru-bu\t ina UD 22-KAM | |
| 6 | ana-ku nu-uk\td la-al\d-lik-ka | |
| 7 | IGI.2-MEŠ\m ša\dym MAN EN-ia la-mur | |
| 8 | {1}ka-ku-la-nu {lu₂v}qur-bu\tp-te | |
| 9 | a-na\t ir-ti\t-ia TA\m lib-bi {uru}[x]-⸢li-te⸣ | |
| 10 | u₂-sa-hi-ra-a-ni ma-a a-⸢lik⸣ | |
| 11 | {lu₂v}ERIM-MEŠ\m-ka pa-ṭi-ir ⸢šum₂⸣-[mu] | |
| 12 | la il-li\d-ku ma-a {lu₂v}ERIM-[MEŠ-ka] | |
| 13 | ina bu\t-bu\t-te i-mut-tu₂ [x x x] | |
| 14 | ša\dym 05 ITI-MEŠ {še}tab-ku a-⸢tan⸣-[na-šu₂-nu] | |
| 15 | 01 qa-a.a I₃-MEŠ\m 01 qa-a.⸢a⸣ [NINDA-MEŠ] | |
| 16 | 01 ⸢qa⸣-a.a {u₂}ZAG\m.HI.⸢LI⸣{[sar} x x] | |
| 17 | [i-se]-⸢niš⸣ a-tan-na\t-šu₂-nu [x x x] | |
| 18 | [ha-ra]-me-ma ana-ku at-[tu-ṣi] | |
| 19 | [x x] ⸢UGU⸣ {lu₂v}ERIM-[MEŠ x x] | |
| b.e. | ||
| 20 | [x x x]-⸢tar⸣-bu\t [x x x] | |
| 21 | [x x x]-⸢ti x⸣+[x x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1 | [x x x]-⸢ni⸣-tu [x x] | |
| 2 | [x x x] ku-um\d šu₂-nu [x x] | |
| 3 | [ina bat]-ti\t—bat-ti\t ⸢ša\y {uru⸣}[x x] | |
| 4 | [kam]-mu-su\t TA IGI ku-[pe-e] | |
| 5 | la i-lak-ka šu₂-nu ⸢la⸣ [x x x] | |
| 6 | u₂-ma-a an-nu-⸢rig⸣ [x x (x)] | |
| 7 | TA\m {1}ka-ku-la-a-ni a-[na URU] | |
| 8 | i-tal-lu-ku i-ru-bu\t [o] | |
| 9 | ša\dym MAN be-li₂ iš-pur-an-ni [o] | |
| 10 | ma-a a-ta-a {lu₂v}GAL—E₂-⸢ka⸣ {lu₂v}GAL—E₂-⸢ka⸣ | |
| 11 | ina lib-bi la-šu 10 {lu₂v}⸢EN⸣—[x] | |
| 12 | ša\dym a-na\t MAN EN-ia a-qa-⸢bu⸣-u-[ni] | |
| 13 | ša\dym-mu-ru a—dan-niš | |
| 14 | ši-a-⸢hu⸣ šu-u₂ | |
| 15 | a-⸢na\t⸣ MAN EN-ia a-sa-⸢par⸣-ra | |
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