ABL 0775 (P334548)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0775 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334548 |
| 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/saa16 · 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 servants Nabû-ra'im-nišešu (and) Salamanu. Good health to the king, my lord! May Nabû (and) Marduk bless the king. |
| Obverse [5:13] o 66–o 1313 | Idri-aha'u came and brought the shoes in the evening of the 16th. On the 17th, we s[et out] from [M]alaku. [In D]unni-Šamaš [......] |
| Reverse [0:6] r 1r 1–r 66 | As to the cara[van]s of which the king, my lord, said: "They are ...ing much from here (and) there" — we will come quickly. |
| Reverse [6:11] r 77–r 1111 | Umban-kidinni is [t]elling us: "We would like to go by the road inside the country (= Assyria)." We cannot bring him there without the king('s permission). |
| Reverse [11:19] r 1212– | Let the king write us what to do, (and) let a messenger stay at our disposal in Der. Idri-aha'u left for the king, my lord, in the evening of the 17th. |
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 | |
| 2 | ARAD-MEŠ-ka {1}{d}PA—AG₂—UN-MEŠ-šu₂ | |
| 3 | {1}sa-la-ma-nu lu-u DI-mu | |
| 4 | a-na LUGAL be-li₂-ia | |
| 5 | {d}PA {d}AMAR.UTU a-na LUGAL lik-ru-bu | |
| 6 | UD 16-KAM₂ nu-bat-tu | |
| 7 | {1}ad-ra—a-ha-u₂ it-tal-ka | |
| 8 | {kuš}DA.E.SIR₂ na-aṣ-ṣa | |
| 9 | UD 17-KAM₂ TA@v [ŠA₃ {uru]}⸢ma⸣-li-ki | |
| 10 | nu-⸢tam⸣-[mi₃-iš ina {uru]}⸢dun⸣-ni—{d}ša₂-maš | |
| 11 | ⸢ša⸣ [x x x x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ | |
| 12 | [x x x x x x x x x x x] | |
| 13 | bat [x x x x x x x x x x]-ni | |
| r | ||
| 1 | ina UGU ⸢KASKAL.2-MEŠ-ni [o] | |
| 2 | ša LUGAL be-li₂ iq-bu-u-ni | |
| 3 | ma-a TA@v an-na-ka | |
| 4 | TA@v an-na-kam-ma | |
| 5 | u₂-pa-su ma-aʾ-da a-ne₂-en-nu | |
| 6 | ar₂-hiš ni-il-la-ka | |
| 7 | i-⸢qab⸣-ba-na-ši {1}um-ba-ki-di-ni | |
| 8 | [ma]-a KASKAL.2 ŠA₃-bi ma-a-te | |
| 9 | ni-il-lik la e-mu-qa-a-ni | |
| 10 | ša la LUGAL ina ŠA₃-bi | |
| 11 | la nu-ub-bal-šu₂ | |
| 12 | mi-i-nu ša ši-ti-i-ni | |
| 13 | LUGAL liš-pu-ra-na-ši | |
| 14 | DUMU—šip-ri DUMU—šip-ri ina ŠA₃ {uru}de-e-re | |
| 15 | ina pa-na-tu-un-ni | |
| 16 | li-zi-zi | |
| 17 | UD 17-KAM₂ ša ba-a-di | |
| 18 | {1}ad-ra—a-ha-u | |
| e. | ||
| 1 | pa-an LUGAL be-li₂-ia it-tal-ka | |
Sources & licences
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