ABL 0712 (P334504)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0712 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334504 |
| 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, m[y] lord: your servant Nabû-belu-ka''in. Good health to the king, [my lor]d! |
| Obverse [3:10] o 44–o 1010 | Concerning what the king, my lord, wrote [to me]: "Why [did you not ...] with the treasu[rer (and) ...] the Calahite [...]? Do you not know [...]?" — [when] this [... came to] me |
| Obverse [10:11] o 1111–o 1111 | [......] in my presence |
| Obverse [11:12] o 1212–o 1212 | [......] the image |
| Obverse [12:13] o 1313–o 1313 | [......] to |
| Obverse [13:14] o 1414–o 1414 | [...... depo]rt me |
| Reverse [1:7] r 2'2'–r 7'7' | We must deport [the house of Ilumma-tak]lak, and we must also deport [...], so they will fear [the king. After] we have deported the house of Ilumma-taklak, let us thereafter deport the latter too there. |
| Reverse [7:11] r 8'8'–r 11'11' | Perhaps the king, my lord, [will say]: "Those of the house of Ilumma-[taklak] are Lahiraeans, they should go [to ...]." They are Ab[dudaeans], not Lahiraeans. |
Transliteration (ATF)
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| Line | ATF | Machine English (draft) |
|---|---|---|
| o | ||
| 1 | a-na\t LUGAL be-li₂-⸢ia⸣ | |
| 2 | ARAD-ka {1}{d}AG—EN—⸢GIN\d⸣ | |
| 3 | lu-u DI-mu a-na\t LUGAL ⸢be⸣-[li₂-ia] | |
| 4 | ⸢ša⸣ LUGAL be-li₂ iš\d-pur-[an-ni] | |
| 5 | [ma-a] a-ta-a a-du\d {lu₂v}IGI.⸢DUB⸣ | |
| 6 | [x x x x] {uru}kal-ha-a.a | |
| 7 | [x x x x]+⸢x⸣-u-ni | |
| 8 | [x x x x] la tu\t-da-a | |
| 9 | [ki-i x x] an-ni-iu-u | |
| 10 | [x x x]-⸢gal⸣-an-ni | |
| 11 | [x x x x]+⸢x⸣ ina pa-ne₂-e-a | |
| 12 | [x x x x x] ṣal-mu | |
| 13 | [x x x x x x x] a-na\t | |
| 14 | [x x x x x x x]-⸢gal⸣-an-ni | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [x x x x x x x]-u-ni | |
| 2' | [E₂ {1}DINGIR-ma—tak]-⸢lak⸣ nu-šag-la | |
| 3' | [x x x] nu-šag-la-a-ma | |
| 4' | [LUGAL] i-pa-lu-hu | |
| 5' | [ki-ma] E₂\d {1}DINGIR-ma—tak-lak | |
| 6' | nu-sag-li ur-ki-ti\t am-me-e-ša₂ | |
| 7' | an-nu-ti\t nu-šag-li [o] | |
| 8' | i—su\t-ri LUGAL be-li₂ [i-qab-bi] | |
| 9' | ma-a ša\m E₂\d {1}DINGIR-ma—[tak-lak] | |
| 10' | {uru}la-hi-ra-a.a šu₂-nu [x x x] | |
| 11' | lil-li-ku {lu₂v}{uru}ab-[du-da-a.a] | |
| 12' | la {uru}la-hi-ra-a.a [šu-nu] | |
Sources & licences
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