ABL 0441 (P334305)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0441 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334305 |
| 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 | [T]o the king, [my] l[ord]: your [ser]vant Upa[q-Šamaš]. Good health to the ki[ng, my lord]! |
| Obverse [3:13] o 44–o 1313 | The magnates departed from Yeri on the 20th of [Tam]muz (IV) and went to Fort Adad-remanni; Ea-Šarru-ibni went with them. I am in Yeri, [keepin]g watch over Zaba-iqiša, as the king, my lord, [told] me. |
| Obverse [13:23] o 1414– | As to the news [of] Zaba-iqiša, [a mes]senger [of] the Hubuškian has come and told the sartinnu: "He has been made to depart, and he is on his way [t]o Rusa." |
| Reverse [3:7] r 44–r 77 | It is a substantiated rumor; [I have he]ard it [reported] like this ma[ny] times. I am keeping an eye on [him] now. |
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}u₂-pa-[qa—{d}UTU] | |
| 3 | lu DI-mu a-na\t ⸢LUGAL⸣ [EN-ia] | |
| 4 | UD 20-KAM₂ ša\d {iti}⸢ŠU⸣ | |
| 5 | {⸢lu₂v⸣}GAL-MEŠ\m TA@v\m ŠA₃ {uru}ie-e-ri | |
| 6 | u₂-ta-mi-šu a-na\t | |
| 7 | {uru}bir-te ša\d {1}10—rem₂-a-ni | |
| 8 | i-tal-ku {1}{d}E₂.A—MAN—DU₃ | |
| 9 | i-si-šu-nu i-ta-lak | |
| 10 | [a]-⸢na\t⸣-ku ina ŠA₃ {uru}ie-e-ri | |
| 11 | [a-na]-⸢ku⸣ a-ki LUGAL be-li₂ | |
| 12 | [iq-bu-u]-ni EN.NUN\m | |
| 13 | [ša {1}{⸢id₂t⸣}za-ba—BA-ša₂ | |
| 14 | [a-na]-⸢ṣar⸣ UGU ṭe₃-me | |
| 15 | [ša {1}{⸢id₂⸣}za-ba—BA-ša₂ | |
| b.e. | ||
| 16 | {[lu₂v]}⸢DUMU⸣—šip-ri {[lu₂v]}⸢DUMU⸣—šip-ri | |
| 17 | [ša] {⸢uru⸣}hu-bu\p-us\p-ka-a.a | |
| 18 | [ina] ⸢UGU⸣ {lu₂v}sar\p-tin-ni | |
| r | ||
| 1 | ⸢i⸣-tal-ka iq\d-ṭi₂-bi | |
| 2 | [ma]-⸢a⸣ u₂-ta-mi-šu-šu | |
| 3 | [ina] ⸢UGU⸣ {1}ur-sa-a i-tal-lak | |
| 4 | [a-bu-tu₂] ⸢ku⸣-un-tu₂ ši-i-ti\t | |
| 5 | [ṭe₃]-mu ⸢a⸣-ni-u₂ 02-šu | |
| 6 | 03-⸢šu⸣ ⸢a⸣-ki a-ni-e | |
| 7 | [a-se]-me [o] a-na\t-ku an-nu-rig | |
| 8 | EN.⸢NUN\m⸣-[šu] a-na\t-⸢ṣar⸣ | |
Sources & licences
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