ABL 0492 (P334339)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0492 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334339 |
| 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 ki]ng, my lord: [your servant] Aššur-reṣuwa. [Good hea]lth to the king, my lord! |
| Obverse [3:12] o 44–o 1212 | [The ki]ng of Urarṭu has left Ṭurušpâ [on the fir]st of Nisan (I) and gone to Elizzada. Kaqqadanu, his commander-in-chief, has gone to Waisi. The whole Urarṭian army is marching [t]o Elizzada, following the king. |
| Obverse [12:17] o 1313– | Perhaps the king, my lord, will say: "[H]ow [are they positioned]?" — |
| Reverse [2:4] r 33–r 44 | I have [n]ot heard [any report ... y]et. |
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⸣ be-li₂\t-⸢ia⸣ | |
| 2 | [ARAD-ka] {1}aš-šur—re-ṣu-u-a | |
| 3 | [lu] ⸢DI⸣-mu\p a-na LUGAL be-li₂\t-ia | |
| 4 | [ina] ⸢SAG⸣.DU ITI ša\y {iti}BARAG | |
| 5 | ⸢LUGAL\m⸣ {kur}URI\m-a.a TA@v\m {uru}ṭu-ur-uš-pa-[a] | |
| 6 | it-tu-ṣi a-na {uru}el-iz-za-da\d | |
| 7 | ⸢i\p⸣-tal-lak {1}SAG.DU-a-nu | |
| 8 | {lu₂}tur-ta-nu-šu ina ŠA₃ | |
| 9 | {uru}u₂-e-si i-tal-lak | |
| 10 | {⸢lu₂⸣}e-muq-qi ša\y {kur}URI | |
| 11 | gab\p-bu\p de-et LUGAL | |
| 12 | [a]-na {uru}el\p-iz-za-du | |
| 13 | [i]-ra-di-a i—su-ri | |
| 14 | LUGAL be-li₂\t i-qab-bi | |
| r | ||
| 1 | [ma-a a]-ke-e | |
| 2 | [šak-na u₂]-⸢di⸣-na | |
| 3 | [ṭe₃-e-mu] ⸢la⸣ aš₂-me | |
| 4 | [x x x]-⸢ni⸣ | |
Sources & licences
- Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative · CDLI: reuse of catalogue/transliteration data with citation of CDLI; images restricted (not fetched) · Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI), https://cdli.earth/ ; cite CDLI and the P-number
- 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) · ORACC project editions, https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ ; cite the individual project (see texts.extra_json.project)
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