ABL 0312 (P334200)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0312 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334200 |
| 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 Šarru-emuranni. Good health to the king, [my lord]! |
| Obverse [3:7] o 44–o 77 | As to what the king, my lord, wro[te me]: "Orga[nize] your army and be on the alert! If [feasible], take the road to Hirite by [...]" — |
| Obverse [7:13] o 88–o 1313 | it is not at all feasible! The terrain is difficult; it lies between the mountains, the waters are constricted and the current is strong, not fit for using either wineskins or keleks. The king, lord, knows that the men cannot swim. |
| Obverse [13:18] o 1414–o 1818 | The troops are assembled, and I am going up to Sumbi, making a detour to [...], [then descend] to Bit-Hamban [......] |
| Reverse [1:4] r 2'2'–r 4'4' | [I could have gone f]irst [...] and wai[ted] for him, [but he] left before me and is waiting f[or] me. |
| Reverse [4:10] r 5'5'–r 10'10' | Last year the son of Bel-iddina did not go with me to the expedition but kept the best men at home and sent with me young boys only. Now let the king, my lord, send me a mule stable attendant to make him come forth and go with me. |
| Reverse [10:15] r 11'11'–r 15'15' | Otherwise, he will (again) back off, fall away, keep alert grudgingly, and certainly not [go] with me, but will only send y[oung] boys with me, keeping [the best men] at home. |
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-[ia] | |
| 2 | ARAD-ka {1}LUGAL—IGI.LAL-[an-ni] | |
| 3 | lu DI-mu\p a-na LUGAL [EN-ia] | |
| 4 | ša LUGAL EN iš-⸢pur⸣-[an-ni] | |
| 5 | ma-a e-mu-qi\m-ka ku-⸢ṣu⸣-[ru] | |
| 6 | lu et-ka-ka ma-a šum₂\p-mu [ta-ri-iṣ] | |
| 7 | KASKAL ša\dm a-na {uru}hi-ri-te ša ⸢u₂⸣-[x x] | |
| 8 | a-lik la-aš₂-šu la ta-ri-ṣi | |
| 9 | kaq-qu-ru ma-ri-ṣi bir-te KUR-MEŠ-ni\d | |
| 10 | šu-u₂ A-MEŠ kar-ku ID₂ da-ʾa-na | |
| 11 | la a-na {kuš}maš-ki-ri ka-ra-ri | |
| 12 | i-la-ka la a-na {kuš}ka-la-ki | |
| 13 | LUGAL EN u₂-da ERIM-MEŠ A-MEŠ | |
| 14 | la i-la-ʾu-u₂ e-mu-qi\m | |
| 15 | pu\p-uh-ra al-lak e-⸢li⸣ | |
| 16 | ⸢a⸣-na {kur}su-um-bi a-na {⸢uru⸣}[x x] | |
| 17 | [a]-⸢la⸣-bi-a ina {kur}E₂—⸢ha⸣-ban [x x] | |
| 18 | [x x]+⸢x x⸣ [x x x] ⸢x⸣ [x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [x x x x] ⸢x⸣ [x x x x x] | |
| 2' | [ah-tu₂]-⸢ru⸣-up ⸢x⸣+[x x x x] | |
| 3' | ina pa-ni-šu₂ a-da-[gal šu-tu-ma] | |
| 4' | ih-tu₂-ur-pa-ni ⸢ina pa-ni⸣-ia | |
| 5' | i-da-gal DUMU {1}EN—SUM\p-na ina šad-daq₃-diš | |
| 6' | i-si-ia a-na KASKAL la i-li-ki | |
| 7' | ERIM-MEŠ SIG₅-MEŠ ik-ta-la {lu₂vy}TUR-MEŠ | |
| 8' | qa\d-lu-te i-si-ia u₂-se-ṣi | |
| 9' | u₂-ma-a {lu₂vy}ša₂—E₂—ku-din LUGAL EN | |
| 10' | liš\d-pu\p-ra lu-še-ṣi-šu₂ i-si-ia | |
| 11' | lil-li-ki u₂-la-a i-bal-ka-ta | |
| 12' | i-ma-qu-ut ina UGU mur-ṣi e-⸢te⸣-ka | |
| 13' | la-aš₂-šu i-si-ia ⸢la⸣ [i-la-ka] | |
| 14' | {lu₂vy}TUR-MEŠ-ni-ma ⸢qa\d⸣-[lu-te] | |
| 15' | i-si-ia u₂-še-ṣa [ERIM-MEŠ SIG₅-MEŠ] | |
| 16' | i-ka-al-la [o] | |
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