ABL 0762 (P334539)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0762 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334539 |
| 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 servants [Šarru-emuran]ni and Šarru-emuranni. [Good health to the ki]ng, our lord! |
| Obverse [3:10] o 44–o 1010 | [Concerning the fort about wh]ich the king, our lord, [wrote to us]: "Guard and attend to it" — [...]ya, Ṣallaya (and) [...]aya from Sapia stood before us [...] and s[aid] to us as follows: |
| Reverse [0:2] r 1'1'–r 2'2' | [Let] the king, [our] lo[rd issue orders that] they should bring [......]. |
| Reverse [2:4] r 3'3'–r 4'4' | [...] there are some [x thousand x] hundred arrows in the fort |
| Reverse [4:5] r 5'5'–r 5'5' | [...] each [x] 'bones' long |
| Reverse [5:6] r 6'6'–r 6'6' | [...] as we set the arrows aside [......] |
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 be-li₂]-⸢ia⸣ ARAD-MEŠ-ka | |
| 2 | {1}MAN—IGI.LAL]-ni {1}MAN—IGI.LAL-ni-ma | |
| 3 | [lu-u DI-mu a-na] ⸢LUGAL⸣ be-li₂-ni | |
| 4 | [ina UGU {uru}bir-te] ⸢ša⸣ LUGAL BE-ni | |
| 5 | [iš-pur-a-na-ši]-⸢ni⸣ ma-a ⸢uṣ⸣-ra har-ri-da | |
| 6 | [x x x x]-ia {1}ṣa-la-a.a | |
| 7 | [x x x x]-a.a {uru}sa-pi-a.a | |
| 8 | [x x x ina] pa-ni-ni i-ti\t-ti\t-su | |
| 9 | [x x x ki]-⸢i⸣ an-ni-e ⸢iq⸣-[ṭi₂-bu]-na-ši | |
| 10 | [x x x x x] ⸢x x⸣ [x x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [x x x x] LUGAL ⸢be⸣-[li₂-ni x x] | |
| 2' | [x x x x] ⸢lu⸣-bi-lu-u-ni | |
| 3' | [x x x x i]-ba-aš₂-ši {giš}GAG.TI-MEŠ\m | |
| 4' | [x-lim-x]-me ina {uru}bir-te i-ba-ši | |
| 5' | [x x x x]+⸢x⸣ GIR₃.PAD.DU-MEŠ-a.a GID₂.DA | |
| 6' | [x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ ki-i {giš}GAG.TI-MEŠ | |
| 7' | [x x x x x]+⸢x⸣-a-ti\t nu-še-lu-u-ni | |
Sources & licences
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