ABL 0705 (P334498)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0705 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334498 |
| 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 king, my lord: your servant Ša-Aššur-dubbu. [The best] of health to the king, [my lord]! |
| Obverse [3:5] o 44–o 55 | The for[ts] and the land of the king, [my] lo[rd], are well. |
| Obverse [5:8] o 66–o 88 | When I wr[ote] to the king, my lord, that the king of Šu[b]ria had captured [my men], the king, my lord, [wrote me back]: |
| Obverse [8:11] o 99–o 1111 | "Capt[ure] his men in eq[ual number] to your men, [until] he releases [them]." |
| Obverse [11:12] o 1212–o 1212 | [...] I took [......] |
| Reverse [0:3] r 1'1'–r 3'3' | As to what [I wrote] to the king, my lord: "They have se[lected] 500 roof-beams [in the territory] of the Urarṭian " — |
| Reverse [3:8] r 4'4'–r 8'8' | [now] my 'third man' who did the s[election] has felled them and piled them up al[ong the river]. As so[on as] he has finished [the job], he will set [out] and assemble the troops. |
| Reverse [8:12] r 9'9'–r 12'12' | I can free up [to] 100 men to en[ter] (the Urarṭian territory) and thro[w] the beams in the river; the rest I will ba[se] in the[ir] garrisons and ambush positions. |
| Reverse [12:16] r 13'13'– | Some kind of an insurrection may occur; I am strengthening the guard — I am afraid of an insurrection. |
| Right [0:6] r.e. 16r.e. 16– | [The gov]ernor of Pulua [o]pposite me has written me: "Why has the messenger of my little brother [not com]e? Is a god visiting him?" |
| Edge [1:2] e. 22–e. 22 | [......] has come three times |
| Edge [2:3] e. 33–e. 33 | [......] together |
| Edge [3:4] e. 44–e. 44 | [...... has not] heard. |
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-ia | |
| 2 | ARAD-ka {1}ša\dm—aš-šur—du-bu | |
| 3 | lu DI\d-mu a-na LUGAL\m [EN-ia a—dan-niš] | |
| 4 | DI-mu a-na {uru}bi-ra-[a-ti] | |
| 5 | a-na KUR ša\dm LUGAL ⸢EN⸣-[ia] | |
| 6 | ša\dm a-na LUGAL EN-ia₂ aš₂-⸢pur⸣-[an-ni] | |
| 7 | nu-ku {kur}šu-⸢ub⸣-ri-a.a {[lu₂v}ERIM-MEŠ-ia] | |
| 8 | u₂-ṣa-bit ⸢LUGAL⸣ be-li₂ [i-sap-ra] | |
| 9 | ma-a {lu₂vy}ERIM-MEŠ-šu₂ pi-[it-ti] | |
| 10 | {lu₂vy}ERIM-MEŠ-ka ṣa-[bit a-di] | |
| 11 | ⸢u₂⸣-ra-mu-u-ni ⸢x⸣+[x x x] | |
| 12 | [x x]+⸢x a⸣-ṣa-bat ⸢a⸣-[x x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | ⸢ša a-na\t LUGAL EN-ia₂⸣ [aš₂-pur-an-ni] | |
| 2' | nu-ku 05 me {giš}UR₃\m-⸢MEŠ⸣ [ina ta-hu-me] | |
| 3' | ša\dm {kur}URI\dd-a.a i-ta-[as-qu u₂-ma-a] | |
| 4' | {lu₂vy}03.U₅-ia ša\dm ⸢is⸣-[si-qu-u-ni] | |
| 5' | i-ti\t-ki-si ina ⸢šid⸣-[di ID₂] | |
| 6' | ik-ta-ra-ra ki-[ma dul-lu] | |
| 7' | ug\dt-da\d-mir u₂\d-⸢nam⸣-[ma-ša₂] | |
| 8' | {lu₂vy}ERIM-MEŠ u₂-pa-har ⸢am—mar⸣ | |
| 9' | 01 me {lu₂vy}ERIM-MEŠ\m u₂-za-ka e-⸢ru⸣-[bu] | |
| 10' | {giš}UR₃-MEŠ ina ID₂ i-ka-ru-[ru] | |
| 11' | re-hu-ti a-na EN.NUN\dm-šu₂-⸢nu⸣ | |
| 12' | ina E₂—šu-ub-te-šu₂-nu E₂—šu-ub-te-šu₂-nu u₂-še-ša₂-[ab] | |
| 13' | i—su-ri bar-tu me-me-⸢ni⸣ | |
| 14' | EN.NUN\dm u₂-da\d-ʾa-na | |
| 15' | ⸢TA⸣ IGI bar-ti\t pal-ha-ku | |
| r.e. | ||
| 16 | {[lu₂v]}⸢EN⸣.NAM ša\dm {uru}pu-lu-u-a | |
| 17 | [ša] ⸢pu-tu₂⸣-u-a i-sa-bar | |
| 18 | [ma]-a a-ta-a {lu₂vy}A—šip-ri {lu₂vy}A—šip-ri | |
| 19 | ša\m PAB-ia qal₃\m-li | |
| e. | ||
| 1 | [la il-li]-⸢ka⸣ ma-a i-lu-u ina IGI-šu e-ra-⸢ba⸣ | |
| 2 | [x x x x x x x]-u₂ 03-šu₂ it-tal-ka | |
| 3 | [x x x x x x x x]-ni a-na a-ha-iš | |
| 4 | [x x x x x x x x] iš-me | |
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