ABL 0552 (P334377)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0552 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334377 |
| 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/saa15 · 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 Issar-[duri]. Good health to the king, my lord! |
| Obverse [3:7] o 44–o 77 | The captives entrusted to the bodyguard Guhuru are on their way to [Dur]-Šarrukin. [On the x]th [day ...] |
| Obverse [7:13] o 88–o 1313 | (8) (Break) |
| Obverse [13:14] o 1414–o 1414 | [...... we]nt |
| Obverse [14:16] o 1515–o 1616 | [... the] captives |
| Reverse [0:1] r 1'1'–r 1'1' | [...] in [...] |
| Reverse [2:11] r 3'3'–r 11'11' | I wrote as follows [to] the bodyguard accompanying them: "[Bring th]em to Baqarru and let them stay there. [Give the]m bread and water and send [a report] about them to the Palace. Whatever they write to you from the Palace, you shall do accordingly!" |
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}{d}15—[du-ri] | |
| 3 | lu-u DI-mu a-na\t LUGAL EN-ia₂ | |
| 4 | {lu₂v}hu-ub-tu₂ ša\m {1}gu-hu-ru | |
| 5 | {lu₂v}qur-bu-te i-si-šu₂-nu pa-qid-u-ni | |
| 6 | a-na\t {uru}[BAD₃]—{1}MAN—⸢GIN⸣ | |
| 7 | il-[la-ku-ni UD x]-⸢KAM⸣ | |
| 8 | [x x x x x x x]-u-ni | |
| 9 | [x x x x x x x x] | |
| 10 | [x x x x x x x x]-na\t | |
| 11 | [x x x x x x x x]-⸢ka⸣ | |
| 12 | [x x x x x x x x x x]-lu | |
| 13 | [x x x x x x x]-bit | |
| 14 | [x x x x x x x]-lak | |
| 15 | [x x x x x x {lu₂v]}hu-ub-tu₂ | |
| 16 | [x x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [x x x x]+⸢x⸣ ina ŠA₃ [x x x x] | |
| 2' | [x x x] i-dan [o] | |
| 3' | [x x a]-na\t-ku a-ki an-ni-[i] | |
| 4' | [ina UGU] {lu₂v}qur-bu-te | |
| 5' | [ša i]-si-šu₂-nu a-sap-ra | |
| 6' | [nu-uk] ina {uru}ba-qar-ri | |
| 7' | [bi-la-šu₂]-nu ina ŠA₃-bi lu šu₂-nu NINDA-MEŠ\m A-MEŠ | |
| 8' | [di-na-šu₂]-nu u₃ ina E₂.GAL | |
| 9' | [ṭe₃-en]-šu₂-nu šu-pur | |
| 10' | ⸢nu-uk⸣ mi-i-nu | |
| 11' | ša\m TA@v\p E₂\p.GAL\p i\p-šap-par-u-ni-ka-ni | |
| 12' | ina pi-it-te te-pa-aš₂ | |
Sources & licences
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- 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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