ABL 0444 (P334308)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0444 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334308 |
| 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 Aššur-reṣuwa. Good] health to the king, [my] lo[rd]! |
| Obverse [3:12] o 44–o 1212 | [Five] governors of the Urarṭ[ian] have ent[ered] Waisi: Setinu, the governor o[ppo]site us; Kaqqadanu, the one opposite the Ukkeans; Sakuatâ of Qaniun; Siplia of Alzi; Ṭuki of Armiraliu: these are their names. |
| Obverse [12:18] o 1313–o 1818 | They have entered Waisi with three unit commanders. Now, after their (arrival), they have raised the levies of the country, and are keeping the army in readiness. |
| Obverse [18:23] o 1919– | The king has moved out of Ṭuruš[p]â and gone to Wazaun. |
| Reverse [2:8] r 33–r 88 | As to what the king, my lord, wrote me: "Send out scouts!" — I have sent them twice: the first have come back and told me these things; the others have not yet come out. |
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}aš-šur—re-ṣu-u-a] | |
| 3 | [lu] ⸢DI-mu⸣ a-na\dt LUGAL\t ⸢EN⸣-[ia] | |
| 4 | 05 {lu₂vy}EN.NAM-MEŠ\m ša\dt {kur}URI-[a.a] | |
| 5 | ina ŠA₃\p {uru}u₂-e-si e-⸢tar⸣-[bu] | |
| 6 | {1}se-ti\t-nu {lu₂v}EN.NAM ša\y ⸢pu-tu-ni⸣ | |
| 7 | {1}kaq-qa-da\d-nu ša\y pu-tu\t [o] | |
| 8 | {kur}u₂\m-ka-a.a {1}sa-ku-a-ta-a | |
| 9 | ša {kur}qa-ni\d-un {1}si-ip-li\t-a | |
| 10 | ša {kur}al\d-zi {1}ṭu-ki | |
| 11 | ša {kur}ar₂-mir-a-li\t-u | |
| 12 | an-nu-te MU-MEŠ\m-šu₂-nu | |
| 13 | TA@v\m 03 {lu₂vym}EN—pir-ri {lu₂vym}EN—pir-ri | |
| 14 | ina ŠA₃-bi {uru}u₂\m-e-si | |
| 15 | e-tar-bu u₂\m-ma-a | |
| 16 | i—da-tu\t-šu-nu i—da-tu\t-šu-nu | |
| 17 | ul-lu-a-te KUR\t u₂-tu-li\d-u | |
| 18 | {lu₂vy}e-mu-qi i-kal-⸢lu-u⸣ | |
| 19 | LUGAL TA@v\m ŠA₃ {uru}ṭu-ur-⸢uš⸣-[pa]-a | |
| 20 | i-tu-ṣi | |
| r | ||
| 1 | ina ŠA₃ {uru}⸢ha⸣-za-un | |
| 2 | i-tal-lak\p | |
| 3 | ša\t LUGAL be-li₂ iš-pur-an-ni | |
| 4 | ma-a {lu₂vy}da\d-a.a-li\d šu-pur | |
| 5 | a-na\t 02-šu₂ a-sa-par | |
| 6 | i-se-nu-te i-tal-ku-ni\d | |
| 7 | di-ib-bi an-nu-te iq-ṭi₂-bu-ni | |
| 8 | i-se-nu-te-ma u₂-di-na | |
| 9 | la u₂-ṣu-ni | |
Sources & licences
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