ABL 0713 (P334505)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0713 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334505 |
| 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 [0:5] o 1o 1–o 55 | To the king, my lord: your servant Nabû-belu-ka''in. Good health to the king, my lord! The land [of] the king my lord is well. The Medes around us are peaceful. |
| Obverse [5:11] o 66–o 1111 | Concerning what the king, my lord, wrote to me: "Arrest and imprison the son of Karakku of Uriakka, and appoint Rametî in his stead!" — I had the son of Karakku arrested and imprisoned, as the king my lord wrote, and we sent Rametî in his stead; Aššur-ṣab[tanni] took him (there). |
| Obverse [11:14] o 1212–o 1414 | The Uriakkeans did not agree to be under him but said: "The son of Irtu[kkanu ......] |
| Reverse [0:1] r 1'1'–r 1'1' | [...] send [......] |
| Reverse [1:2] r 2'2'–r 2'2' | [...] as the king, my lord, [...] |
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-a | |
| 2 | ARAD-ka {1}{d}PA—EN—GIN\d [o] | |
| 3 | lu šul-mu a-⸢na⸣ LUGAL EN-a | |
| 4 | DI\d-mu a-na KUR [ša] LUGAL EN-a | |
| 5 | {lu₂v}mat-a.a ša\d bat-te-bat-te-e-ni ne₂-e-hu | |
| 6 | ša\d LUGAL EN iš\d-pur-an-ni ma-a DUMU {1}ka-rak-ku | |
| 7 | ša\d {uru}ur-ia-ku ṣa-ab-ta kil-aš₂-šu₂ | |
| 8 | ma-a {1}ra-me-ti\t-i ina ku-mu-uš-šu₂ pi-iq-da | |
| 9 | ki-i ša LUGAL EN iš-pur-an-ni DUMU {1}ka-rak-ku | |
| 10 | a-sa-par i-ṣab-tu\t ak-tal-aš₂-šu₂ {1}ra-me-ti\t-i | |
| 11 | ina ku-mu-šu₂ nu-se-bi-il {1}aš-šur—⸢DIB⸣-[an-ni] | |
| 12 | i-tu\t-bil₂\d-šu₂ {uru}ur-ia-ak-a.a la i-ma-[gu-ru] | |
| 13 | [ina] ⸢šap-la⸣-nu-uš-šu₂ ma-a DUMU {1}ir-⸢tuk⸣-[ka-nu] | |
| 14 | [x x x x]+⸢x⸣ hi ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [x x] ⸢še-bi⸣-la ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x] | |
| 2' | ⸢ki⸣-i ša LUGAL EN ⸢i-ša₂⸣-[x x x x] | |
Sources & licences
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