ABL 0515 (P334355)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0515 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334355 |
| 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 [0:2] o 1o 1–o 22 | [To] the king, my lord: your servant Bel-iddina. |
| Obverse [2:11] o 33–o 1111 | As to the news of the Urarṭian, a messenger of the Andian and a messenger of the Zikirtean have gone to Waisi and told him: "The king of Assyria is upon us." |
| Obverse [11:16] o 1212– | The day he saw the messengers he set out to Zikirtu, he himself with his troops. |
| Reverse [2:10] r 33–r 1010 | The Hubuškian too went with him, for five stages. (Then) he turned back and ordered his magnates: "Organize your troops, I shall array myself against the Assyrian king." |
| Reverse [10:12] r 1111–r 1212 | This is from [in]formers; (the part) concerning the arraying is from informers. |
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\t EN-ia | |
| 2 | ⸢ARAD⸣-ka {1}EN—AŠ | |
| 3 | ina UGU ṭe₃-me | |
| 4 | ša\dm {kur}URI\d-a.a | |
| 5 | {lu₂}KIN.A {lu₂}KIN.A ša\dtm {kur}an-di-a.a | |
| 6 | {lu₂}KIN.A {lu₂}KIN.A ša\dtm {kur}zi-ki-ra-a.a | |
| 7 | ina ŠA₃-bi {uru}u₂\m-a-si | |
| 8 | i-tal-ku-u-ni | |
| 9 | i-qi-ṭi₂-bu-ni-šu₂ | |
| 10 | ma-a LUGAL KUR—aš-šur | |
| 11 | ina UGU-hi-ni | |
| 12 | UD-mu ša\dm {lu₂v}KIN.A-MEŠ\m {lu₂v}KIN.A-MEŠ\m | |
| 13 | e-mu-ru\d-ni | |
| 14 | u₂-ta\t-mi₃-ši | |
| 15 | ina {kur}zi-ki-ti\t-a | |
| r | ||
| 1 | šu-tu₂ a-di | |
| 2 | e-mu-qi-šu | |
| 3 | u₃ {kur}hu-ub\d-ka-a.a | |
| 4 | 05 ma-di-tu₂ | |
| 5 | i-si-šu₂ i-tal-ka | |
| 6 | i-su\t-⸢hu⸣-ra | |
| 7 | ina {lu₂}GAL-MEŠ\m-šu₂ i-iq-ṭi₂-bi | |
| 8 | {lu₂}e-mu-qi-ku-<nu> ka-ṣa-ra\m | |
| 9 | ma-a in₆—ni-ri-te in₆—ni-ri-te LUGAL KUR—aš-šur | |
| 10 | ⸢a⸣-sa-di-ri | |
| 11 | ⸢ba\t⸣-ti\t-qi₂-tu₂ ši-i | |
| 12 | [ina] UGU sa-di-ri | |
| 13 | ba\t-ti\t-qi₂-tu₂ ši-i | |
Sources & licences
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