ABL 0884 (P334607)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0884 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334607 |
| 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 | To the king, my lord: your servant Nabû-ahu-uṣur. Good health to the king, my lord! |
| Obverse [3:9] o 44–o 99 | The king, my lord, sent me to the magnates; I have (now) communicated them all the orders that the king, my lord, gave me. |
| Obverse [9:15] o 1010–o 1515 | As to the town where they are encamped, Ir[š]umu is in their hands; they are soon to leave for the king, my lord. |
| Obverse [15:24] o 1616– | As [to] Šarru-emuranni, about whom the king, [my] lo[rd], gave me [or]ders, (I told him): "Not one of your horses and men may be missing if they are to pass before the king." |
| Reverse [4:7] r 55–r 77 | As to Nabû-hamatua, about whom the king, my lord, told me: "Let him come and receive the booty from them!" — |
| Reverse [7:11] r 88–r 1111 | the magnates said to me as follows: "He cannot come; we shall give it to the deputy (governor) of (Bit)-Hamban." |
| Reverse [11:16] r 1212–r 1616 | As to the magnates about whom the king, my lord, told me: "They may each keep 50 riding horses at their disposal, the rest of their horses should come to me!" — |
| Reverse [16:21] r 1717– | I told them (this), but they disagreed, saying: "(If) they go, they will die along the way; they will come with us." |
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}{d}PA—PAB\d—PAB\d | |
| 3 | lu-u DI-mu a-na LUGAL EN-ia₂ | |
| 4 | ina E₂ LUGAL be-li₂\d | |
| 5 | ina UGU {lu₂}GAL-MEŠ\m | |
| 6 | iš-pur-an-ni\d-ni\d | |
| 7 | am—mar LUGAL be-li₂ | |
| 8 | ṭe₃-e-mu iš-kun-an-ni-ni | |
| 9 | gab-bu a-du-ba\t-šu₂-nu | |
| 10 | ina UGU URU E₂ ⸢šak⸣-nu-u-ni | |
| 11 | {uru}ir-⸢šu⸣-mu | |
| 12 | ina ŠU.2-šu₂-nu | |
| 13 | ar₂-hiš ina UGU | |
| 14 | LUGAL be-li₂-ia | |
| 15 | il-la-ku-u-ni | |
| 16 | ina ⸢UGU⸣ {1}⸢MAN⸣—IGI\d-ni ša\yd LUGAL | |
| 17 | be-[li₂] ⸢ṭe₃⸣-e-mu iš-kun-an-ni-ni | |
| b.e. | ||
| 18 | nu-uk\d {anšed}KUR.RA-MEŠ | |
| r | ||
| 1 | {lu₂v}ERIM-MEŠ-ka | |
| 2 | 01-en lu la i-ma-ṭi | |
| 3 | nu-uk bi-is la ina pa-⸢an⸣ | |
| 4 | LUGAL <$o$> e-ti\t-⸢qu⸣ | |
| 5 | ina UGU {1}{d}PA—ha-mat-u-a | |
| 6 | ša LUGAL be-li₂ iq-bu-u-ni | |
| 7 | ma-a šu-u DU-⸢ka⸣ hu-ub-tu₂ | |
| 8 | ⸢li⸣-hur-šu₂-nu ki-i an-ni-e | |
| 9 | {lu₂v}GAL-MEŠ iq-ṭi-bu-ni | |
| 10 | ma-a la u₂-šam-ṣa la i-la-ka | |
| 11 | ma-a a-na {lu₂v}02-e ša\dy {kur}ha-ban | |
| 12 | ni-da\d-an ina UGU {lu₂v}GAL-MEŠ\tm | |
| 13 | ša\dm LUGAL be-li₂ iq-bu-u-ni | |
| 14 | ma-a 50-a.a BAD-HAL ina pa-ni-šu₂-nu | |
| 15 | lik-li-u ma-a re-eh-te | |
| 16 | {anšed}KUR.RA-MEŠ\m-šu₂-nu ina UGU-hi-ia₂ | |
| 17 | DU-u-ni aq\t-ṭi-ba\t-šu₂-nu | |
| 18 | la i-ma-gu-ru ma-a il-lu-ku | |
| 19 | ina šid\d-di KASKAL i-mut-tu₂ | |
| r.e. | ||
| 20 | ma-a i-si-ni | |
| 21 | i-la-ku-u-ni | |
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