ABL 0548 (P334373)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0548 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334373 |
| 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 k]in[g, my lo]rd: [your servant Nashir]-Bel. Good health t[o the king], my [lord]! |
| Obverse [2:5] o 33–o 55 | [The land] of [the ki]ng is well; the for[t]s are well. The king, my lord, can be glad. |
| Obverse [5:16] o 66– | As to the news of the Urarṭians, the messenger of mine [wh]om I sent [to] the governor opposite me has come back; he spoke to him as the king, my lord, wrote me, saying: "Why do you capture our forts, while we are at peace?" |
| Reverse [0:4] r 1r 1–r 44 | He said: "What should I do? If I have trespassed on your territory or your forts, call me to account." |
| Reverse [4:9] r 55–r 99 | His troops are assembled with him; he is keeping watch in Harda. This was the news about them. |
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⸣-[ia₂ ARAD-ka {1}NIGIN]—EN | |
| 2 | ⸢lu⸣ DI-mu a-[na LUGAL EN]-ia₂ | |
| 3 | DI-mu a-na\t [KUR] ⸢ša LUGAL⸣ | |
| 4 | DI-mu a-na\t {uru}HAL.[ṢU]-MEŠ | |
| 5 | ŠA₃-bu\t ša₂ LUGAL\d EN-ia₂ lu DUG₃ | |
| 6 | ina UGU ṭe₃-me ša {kur}URI\d-a.a | |
| 7 | {lu₂vy}A—KIN\t-⸢ia {lu₂vy}A—KIN\t-⸢ia ša⸣ ina UGU | |
| 8 | {lu₂vy}EN.NAM [ša] pu\tp-u-tu₂-u-a | |
| 9 | aš₂-pur-u₂\m-⸢ni it⸣-tal-ka | |
| 10 | ki-i ša LUGAL be-li₂ iš-pur-an-ni | |
| 11 | id-du-ba-aš₂-šu₂ | |
| 12 | ma a-ta-a a-ni-nu | |
| 13 | sa-al-ma-ni at-tu\t-nu | |
| 14 | at-tu\t-nu {uru}HAL.ṢU-MEŠ-ni | |
| 15 | tu-ṣa-ba-ta ma-a | |
| r | ||
| 1 | ana-ku mi₃-nu le\d-pu\t-uš | |
| 2 | ma-a BE-ma ina ta-hu-me-ku-nu | |
| 3 | ina {uru}HAL.ṢU-MEŠ\p-ku-nu | |
| 4 | ah-ti\dt-ṭi₂ ina ŠU.2-ia | |
| 5 | ba-i-a {lu₂vy}e-mu-qi\t-šu₂ | |
| 6 | i-si-šu₂ pu-uh-ru | |
| 7 | ina {uru}har-da\t EN.NUN\dm | |
| 8 | i-na\d-ṣa-ar an-ni-i-u | |
| 9 | ṭe₃-en-šu₂-nu | |
Sources & licences
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