ABL 0768 (P334543)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0768 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334543 |
| 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 | [T]o the king, my lord: your servant Urzana. Good health to the king, my lord! |
| Obverse [3:6] o 44–o 66 | The king, my lord, knows my affair. Whe[re] are the oxen and the rams? |
| Obverse [6:10] o 77–o 1010 | Snow has blocked the roads. (As) I am looking out now, it is impossible: I cannot go empty-handed to the presence of the ki[ng]. |
| Obverse [10:14] o 1111–o 1414 | Or (suppose) I went and had to return from [...: I might ... and die in] the enemy country. |
| Obverse [14:17] o 1515–o 1717 | My heart [is ...], humble [...], reaching [...]. |
| Obverse [17:18] o 1818–o 1818 | As to what the king, [my] lord, [wrote me]: |
| Obverse [18:19] o 1919–o 1919 | "2[......] |
| Obverse [19:20] o 2020–o 2020 | 400 [......] |
| Bottom [0:1] b.e. 22b.e. 22–b.e. 22b.e. 22 | t[o ......] |
| Bottom [1:3] b.e. 2323– | the king [......] |
| Reverse [1:2] r 22–r 22 | which I [......] |
| Reverse [2:3] r 33–r 33 | [bring]s light [......] |
| Reverse [3:4] r 44–r 44 | wher[e ......] |
| Reverse [4:5] r 55–r 55 | came [......] |
| Reverse [5:12] r 66–r 1212 | May Aššur, B[el, Nabû], and Ištar, the Lady [of Battle and Fight], vanquish your enemies and fo[es], put [your ...] under [your f]eet, and make [your] ru[le] bene[ficial] for a[ll] the countries. |
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}ur-za-na\t-a | |
| 3 | lu-u DI-mu a-na\t LUGAL BE-ia | |
| 4 | LUGAL BE-i u₂-⸢da⸣ | |
| 5 | a—be₂-e-ti\t a—be₂-e-ti\t GUD.NITA₂-⸢MEŠ⸣ | |
| 6 | u₃ UDU.NITA₂-MEŠ\m ia-a-⸢ka⸣ | |
| 7 | ku-pu-u₂ KASKAL-MEŠ\m | |
| 8 | u₂-ṣa-bi-it ⸢ka⸣-a-ni | |
| 9 | a-da\d-ga-la la il-la-⸢ka⸣ | |
| 10 | ⸢ra⸣-qu-te-ia ina IGI ⸢LUGAL⸣ | |
| 11 | ⸢la⸣ al-la-ak u₂-[la-a] | |
| 12 | a-ta-al-ka\d ⸢TA@v⸣ [x x] | |
| 13 | a-su-uh-ru ⸢x⸣+[x x x] | |
| 14 | [ina] {kur}na-ki-ri [a-mu-at] | |
| 15 | ia-u₂ ⸢ŠA₃-bi⸣ [x x x x] | |
| 16 | u₂-še-er ⸢ši⸣+[x x x x x] | |
| 17 | ka\d-ši-du [x x x x x x] | |
| 18 | ⸢ša⸣ LUGAL BE-[i iš-pur-an-ni] | |
| 19 | ma-a 02 [x x x x x x x] | |
| 20 | 04 me ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x x] | |
| 21 | ⸢a⸣-ma-[x x x x x x x] | |
| b.e. | ||
| 22 | a-⸢na⸣ [x x x x x x] | |
| 23 | LUGAL ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1 | ši-[x x x x x x x] | |
| 2 | ša\ym ak-⸢x⸣+[x x x x x] | |
| 3 | nu-ru ⸢u₂⸣-[x x x x x] | |
| 4 | a—be₂-e-⸢ti\t⸣ a—be₂-e-⸢ti\t⸣ [x x x x] | |
| 5 | il-li\d-⸢ka⸣ [x x x] | |
| 6 | {d}aš-šur {d}⸢EN⸣ {[d}PA] | |
| 7 | {d}iš-tar be-lit [MURUB₄ u ME₃] | |
| 8 | KUR₂-MEŠ\m-ka\d a.a-⸢bi⸣-[ka] | |
| 9 | li\d-ik-šu-du [x x] | |
| 10 | ina šap-la ⸢GIR₃⸣.2-[MEŠ-ka] | |
| 11 | liš-ku-nu {⸢giš}PA⸣-[ka] | |
| 12 | UGU\d KUR.KUR-MEŠ\m ⸢gab⸣-[bu] | |
| 13 | lu-ṭa\d-i-[bu] | |
Sources & licences
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