ABL 0918 (P334624)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0918 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334624 |
| 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 [0:8] o 1o 1–o 88 | A tablet from Esarhaddon, king of Assyria, to Urtaku, king of Elam, [my] br[other]. I a[m] well, your sons and daughters are well, my country and magnates are well. May Urtaku, king of Elam, my brother, be well, may my sons and daughters be well, may your magnates and your country be well! |
| Obverse [8:13] o 99–o 1313 | Aššur, Sîn, Šamaš, Bel, Nabû, Ištar of Nineveh, Ištar of Arbela and Manziniri have now [fulf]illed and confirmed what they promised, (and) have developed our f[rie]ndship to (its) peak. |
| Obverse [13:14] o 1414–o 1414 | N[ow t]hen, [...] of establishing fame |
| Reverse [0:1] r 1'1'–r 1'1' | [...] [1]00 1[00 x x x x] |
| Reverse [1:2] r 2'2'–r 2'2' | [...] [1]50 1[50] 5 5 [x x] |
| Reverse [2:3] r 3'3'–r 3'3' | [...] [1]50 150 5 5 5 [x] |
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 | DUB-pi {1}aš-šur—PAB—AŠ MAN KUR—aš-⸢šur⸣{[ki]} | |
| 2 | a-na {1}ur-ta-ku LUGAL {kur}NIM{ki} ⸢ŠEŠ⸣-[ia] | |
| 3 | šul-mu a.a-[ši] | |
| 4 | šul-mu a-na DUMU-MEŠ-ka DUMU.MI₂-MEŠ-ka | |
| 5 | šul-mu a-na KUR-ia {lu₂}GAL-MEŠ-ia | |
| 6 | lu šul-mu a-na {1}ur-ta-ku LUGAL {kur}NIM{ki} ŠEŠ-ia | |
| 7 | lu šul-mu a-na DUMU-MEŠ-ia DUMU.MI₂-MEŠ-ia | |
| 8 | lu šul-mu a-na {lu₂}GAL-MEŠ-ka u₃ KUR-ka | |
| 9 | an-nu-rig ša {d}aš-šur {d}30 {d}UTU {d}EN {d}AG | |
| 10 | {d}15 ša NINA{ki} {d}15 ša {uru}arba-il₃ | |
| 11 | {d}⸢ma-an⸣-zi-ni-ri iq-bu-u-ni | |
| 12 | u₂-[sa]-⸢li⸣-mu uk-ti-i-nu | |
| 13 | {⸢lu₂⸣}[EN]—⸢DUG₃⸣.GA-ti-ni {⸢lu₂⸣}[EN]—⸢DUG₃⸣.GA-ti-ni a-na ap-pi u₂-se-ṣi-u | |
| 14 | ⸢u₂⸣-[ma-a an]-nu-rig ša ša₂-ka-an šu-me | |
| 15 | [x x x x x]+⸢x x⸣+[x x]+⸢x x⸣+[x x x x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [x x x] [x]-me 01 [me o] [x x] [x x x] | |
| 2' | [x x x] [x]-me 50 01 ⸢me⸣ 50 05 05 [x x x] | |
| 3' | [x x x] [x-me] 50 01 me 50 05 05 05 [x x] | |
Sources & licences
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