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ABL 0381 (P334257)

Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE

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DesignationABL 0381
IDP334257
Museum no.BM —
CollectionBritish Museum, London, UK
LanguageAkkadian
PeriodNeo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
GenreLetter
Find spotNineveh (mod. Kuyunjik)
Coordinates36.3582, 43.1621

English translation

By ORACC project saao/saa05 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)

LineEnglish
Obverse [0:3] o 1o 1–o 33To the king, my lord: your servant Aššur-reṣuwa. Good health to the king, my lord!
Obverse [3:8] o 44–o 88The Mannean has attacked the Urarṭian cities in the district along the lake shore but has left and gone up (the mountains).
Obverse [8:16] o 99–Abaluqunu, the governor of Muṣaṣir, and Ṭunbaun, the governor of Kar-sipar[ri], have gone to the Mannean border, to guard (it).
Reverse [3:7] r 44–r 77The Urarṭian is in Ṭuruṣpâ, making his sacrifices. All the governors are with him.

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)

LineATFMachine English (draft)
o
1a-na\t LUGAL EN-ia
2ARAD-ka {1}aš-šur—re\d-ṣu-u-a
3lu-u šul-mu a-na LUGAL\tm EN-ia₂
4{kur}man-a.a i-na ŠA₃ URU-MEŠ-ni
5ša\dy {kur}URI-a.a
6i—na-gi-e i—na-gi-e ša\y šid-di
7ti\t-amat i-zu\t-qu-pu
8i-ti\t-ši e-te-li
9{1}a-ba\t-lu-qu-nu {lu₂vy}EN.NAM
10ša\dy {uru}mu-ṣa-ṣi-ri
11{1}ṭu-un-ba\t-un {lu₂vy}EN.NAM
12ša {⸢uru⸣}kar-si-par-[ri]
r
1i-na UGU ta-hu-⸢me⸣
2ša\dy {kur}man-a.a i-tal-ku
3a-na ma-ṣar-te
4{kur}URI-a.a
5i-na {uru}ṭu-ru-uš-pa-a šu-u
6{udu}SISKUR-MEŠ-šu₂ e-pa-aš₂
7{lu₂vy}EN.NAM-MEŠ gab-bu
8i—pa-ni-šu₂ i—pa-ni-šu₂ šu-nu

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