ABL 0409 (P334280)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0409 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334280 |
| 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 | A [tab]let of Urzana to the pa[lace] herald. Good health to y[ou]! |
| Obverse [3:8] o 44–o 88 | As to [wh]at you wrote me: "Is the king of Urarṭu on his way (there) with assembled troops? Where is he staying?" — |
| Obverse [8:12] o 99–o 1212 | the governor of Waisi and the governor next to the Ukkean have come and are doing service in the temple. They say: |
| Obverse [12:20] o 1313– | "The king is on his way; he is staying in Waisi, and further governors are coming to Muṣaṣir to do the service." |
| Reverse [2:7] r 33–r 77 | As to what you wrote me: "Nobody may take part in the service without the king's permission" — |
| Reverse [7:11] r 88–r 1111 | when the king of Assyria came here, could I hold him back? He did what he did. So how could I hold back this one! |
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 | ⸢IM⸣ {1}ur-za-na-[a] | |
| 2 | a-na {lu₂vy}NIGIR—E₂.[GAL] {lu₂vy}NIGIR—E₂.[GAL] | |
| 3 | lu DI\t-mu\t a-na\t ka\d-[ša₂] | |
| 4 | ⸢ša\d⸣ taš-pur-an-ni | |
| 5 | ma-a LUGAL {kur}URI\dp-a.a | |
| 6 | a-di {lu₂vy}e-muq-qi-šu₂ | |
| 7 | kar\p-ka\d-te-e i-lak | |
| 8 | ma-a a-a-ka\d u₂-šab | |
| 9 | {lu₂vy}EN.NAM ša₂ {urud}u-a-si | |
| 10 | {lu₂vy}EN.NAM\p ša\dt qa-ni {kur}u-ka-a.a | |
| 11 | i-tal-ku-u-ni dul-lu | |
| 12 | ina E₂—DINGIR E₂—DINGIR e-pu\t-šu₂ | |
| 13 | i-da\t-bu\t-ub\p ma-a LUGAL | |
| 14 | i-lak ina {urud}u-a-si u₂-šab | |
| 15 | ma-a {lu₂vy}NAM\p-MEŠ ah—hu-ru | |
| b.e. | ||
| 16 | i-la-ku-u-ni | |
| r | ||
| 1 | ina {uru}mu-ṣa-ṣir | |
| 2 | dul-lu e-pu\t-šu₂ | |
| 3 | ša₂ taš-pur-an-ni | |
| 4 | ma-a ša\d ⸢la⸣ pi-i | |
| 5 | ša\dp LUGAL me-me-ni | |
| 6 | A₂-šu₂ ina dul-li\d | |
| 7 | lu la u₂-ba-la | |
| 8 | ki-i LUGAL KUR—aš-šur{ki} | |
| 9 | i-lik-an-ni ak-tal-šu₂-u | |
| 10 | ša₂ e-pu\t-šu₂-ni e-tap-ša₂ | |
| 11 | u₂ an-ni-u a-ke-e | |
| 12 | lak-la-šu₂ | |
Sources & licences
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