ABL 0608 (P334421)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0608 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334421 |
| 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 [0:1] o 1'1'–o 1'1' | [...] to A[......] |
| Obverse [1:3] o 2'2'–o 3'3' | [He will th]row himself at the king [my] lord's [fe]et in the re[view]. |
| Obverse [3:11] o 4'4'–o 11'11' | Now [then] he has gone with Ahu-nuri to [meet] the king, my lord. The king, my lord, should speak kindly with him, and the king, my lord, should give him confidence so he will come and convey the kind words to the people of his country and his brothers. |
| Obverse [11:23] o 12'12'– | And concerning what the king, my lord, wrote to me: "In addition to Radmanu finding out and sending you the news of Sippar, isn't there any Babylonian you (can) send to find out and tell you their news?" — Radmanu, the sheikh of Opis, lives [in a t]own of the district. |
| Reverse [8:10] r 99–r 1010 | A certain [...-idd]ina, an official [... of] the district [...] |
| Reverse [10:11] r 1111–r 1111 | [... x le]agues [...] |
| Reverse [11:13] r 1212–r 1313 | [...] whatever n[ews there is] |
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' | [x x x] a-na {1}a-⸢x⸣+[x x x] | |
| 2' | [x x x]-lu šu-u₂\m ina ma-[šar-te] | |
| 3' | [a-na] ⸢GIR₃⸣.2 ša\y LUGAL be-li₂-[ia] | |
| 4' | [i-ma-aq]-qu-tu u₂\m-ma-a [o] | |
| 5' | [an-nu]-⸢rig⸣ TA@v\m {1}PAB—ZALAG₂ a-na [GABA] | |
| 6' | ⸢ša⸣ LUGAL be-li₂-ia₂ it-tal-ka | |
| 7' | LUGAL be-li₂ dib-bi ṭa\d-bu-u-ti\t | |
| 8' | i-se-e-šu₂ lid-bu-bu LUGAL be-li₂ | |
| 9' | lu-šar-hi-is-su\t ba\t-si lil-li-ka | |
| 10' | dib-bi DUG₃.GA-MEŠ\m a-na UN-MEŠ\m KUR-šu₂ u₃ | |
| 11' | a-na ŠEŠ-MEŠ-šu₂ liš-kun | |
| 12' | u₃ ša\y LUGAL be-li₂ | |
| 13' | iš-pur-an-ni ma-a | |
| 14' | ku-um {1}rad-ma-nu | |
| r | ||
| 1 | ṭe₃-mu ša\y {uru}sip-par | |
| 2 | i-har-ra-ṣa-an-ni i-šap-pa-rak-kan-ni | |
| 3 | ma-a la-aš₂-šu₂-u₂\m DUMU—KA₂.DINGIR.RA DUMU—KA₂.DINGIR.RA | |
| 4 | 01-en ša\y ta-šap-pa-ru-u-ni | |
| 5 | ṭe₃-en-šu₂-nu i-har-ra-ṣa-an-ni | |
| 6 | i-qab-ba\t-kan-ni {1}rad-ma-nu | |
| 7 | {lu₂}na-sik ša\y {uru}u₂\m-pi-i | |
| 8 | [ina ŠA₃] ⸢URU⸣ na-gi-i kam-mu-su\t | |
| 9 | [x x x]+⸢x⸣-na šu₂-u₂ EN—pi-⸢qit⸣-ti\t EN—pi-⸢qit⸣-ti\t | |
| 10 | [x x] ⸢ša⸣ na-gi-i a-[x x] | |
| 11 | [x x KASKAL].⸢GID₂⸣ kaq-qu-[ru x x] | |
| 12 | [x x x x] mi-nu ša ⸢ṭe₃⸣-[mu-ni] | |
| 13 | [x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ u₃ [x x] | |
Sources & licences
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