ABL 0706 + (P334499)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0706 + |
|---|---|
| ID | P334499 |
| 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/saa01 · 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 Zeru-ibni. Good health to the king, my lord! |
| Obverse [3:9] o 44–o 99 | As to Erra-gamil, the Ninevite scribe about whom the king, my lord, wrote to me: "He is there; summon him, get hold of him and send him to [the revi]ew!" — |
| Obverse [9:20] o 1010– | I summoned him, and thoroughly questioned Nabû-šumu-uṣur and the scribes from Nemed-Ištar and Laqê, servants of the king my lord, (who told me): |
| Reverse [0:11] r 1r 1–r 1111 | "He came two years ago, got a position with Ilai-Bel, and worked for a year on his behalf. Last year, while Ilai-Bel still was alive, a tracker came and took him away. They deported him to the Land beyond the River." |
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\td LUGAL be-li₂-ia₂ | |
| 2 | ARAD-ka {1}NUMUN\d—DU₃ | |
| 3 | lu DI-mu a-na\td LUGAL EN-ia₂ | |
| 4 | ina UGU-hi {1}{d}IR₃.RA—ga-mil | |
| 5 | {lu₂v}A.BA\y DUMU—{uru}ni-nu-a DUMU—{uru}ni-nu-a | |
| 6 | ša\y ⸢LUGAL⸣ be-li₂ iš-pur-an-ni | |
| 7 | ma-a ha-⸢na\td-ka⸣ šu-u-tu₂ | |
| 8 | ma-a re-e-⸢su i⸣-ši | |
| 9 | ma-a ṣa-bat ⸢ina⸣ [ma-šar]-te | |
| 10 | še-bi-la-šu₂ [re]-⸢e⸣-su\d | |
| 11 | a-ti\t-ši a-na {1}{d}PA—MU—PAB | |
| 12 | a-na\td {lu₂v}A.BA-MEŠ | |
| 13 | {urud}ne₂-med—{d}15-a.a | |
| 14 | a-na\td {lu₂v}A.BA-MEŠ | |
| 15 | {kur}la-qa\d-a.a | |
| 16 | {lu₂v}ARAD-MEŠ\m ša\yd LUGAL | |
| b.e. | ||
| 17 | be-li₂-ia₂ a-sa-al\d | |
| 18 | u₂-ta-ṣi-ṣi | |
| r | ||
| 1 | ma-a ina ša\yd-lu-še-ni | |
| 2 | i-tal-ka ma-a ina pa-an | |
| 3 | {1}DINGIR-a.a—EN it-ti\t-ti\t-zi | |
| 4 | ma-a ṭup\m-pi-šu dul-lu | |
| 5 | ina UGU-hi-šu₂ e-tap-aš₂ | |
| 6 | ma-a ina MU.IM.MA\d | |
| 7 | ma-a ina TI\t.⸢LA⸣-ma ša\yd {1}DINGIR-a.a—EN | |
| 8 | ma-a {lu₂v}UŠ—kib-si {lu₂v}UŠ—kib-si i-tal-ka | |
| 9 | i-ti\t-ši-šu | |
| 10 | ma-a a-na\td {kur}e-bir—ID₂\t | |
| 11 | u₂-sa-ga-li\tt-uš | |
Sources & licences
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