ABL 0410 (P334281)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0410 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334281 |
| 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 Upaq-Šamaš. Good health to the king, my lord! |
| Obverse [4:17] o 55– | As to the guard with the augurs, about whom the king, my lord, wrote me: "He should be tried in your presence, and he must give back whatever he took from the augurs" — |
| Reverse [0:6] r 1r 1–r 66 | I have carried out a thorough investigation; he has taken nothing from them, [[though they complained about him]]. |
| Reverse [6:13] r 77–r 1313 | Now, I have kept the reserve guard in their service, as the king, my lord, commanded; the other one has gone back to his garrison. |
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}u₂\p-paq—{d}ša₂-maš | |
| 3 | lu-u DI-mu | |
| 4 | a-na LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 5 | ina UGU {lu₂vy}ša₂—EN.NUN\m | |
| 6 | ša\y TA@v\m {lu₂vy}da\d-gil₂—MUŠEN-MEŠ {lu₂vy}da\d-gil₂—MUŠEN-MEŠ | |
| 7 | ša\yp LUGAL be-li₂ | |
| 8 | iš-pur-an-ni | |
| 9 | ma-a ina IGI-ka | |
| 10 | lu-uk\td-ta-ti\t-ni | |
| 11 | ma-a mi₃-i-nu | |
| 12 | ša\y TA@v\m IGI {lu₂vy}da-gil₂—MUŠEN-MEŠ {lu₂vy}da-gil₂—MUŠEN-MEŠ | |
| 13 | i-šu-u-ni | |
| b.e. | ||
| 14 | ⸢lu⸣-u-sa-hi-ri | |
| 15 | ⸢lid⸣-din | |
| r | ||
| 1 | a-sa-aʾ-la | |
| 2 | u₂\p-ta-ṣi-ṣi | |
| 3 | me-me-ni <$TA@v\m pa-ni-šu₂$> | |
| 4 | TA@v\m pa-ni-šu₂-nu | |
| 5 | la i-ši | |
| 6 | <$ina UGU-hi-šu₂ i-du-bu-bu$> | |
| 7 | u₂-ma-a a-ki ša\y LUGAL | |
| 8 | EN iq-bu\p-u-ni | |
| 9 | {lu₂vy}ša₂—EN.NUN\m ur-ki-iu-u | |
| 10 | ina IGI-šu₂-nu | |
| 11 | ak-ta-la | |
| 12 | am-mi₃-iu-u | |
| 13 | a-na EN.NUN\m-šu₂ | |
| 14 | i-ta-ta-ka | |
Sources & licences
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