ABL 0988 + (P334664)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0988 + |
|---|---|
| ID | P334664 |
| 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 [0:5] o 1o 1–o 55 | [To the king, our l]ord: [yo]ur [servan]ts [Aššur-a]lik-pani and [Nerg]al-šarrani. Good health to the k[ing, our lord]! |
| Obverse [5:11] o 66–o 1111 | As to what the king, [our lord], wrote to us: "When the gov[ernor] arrives, [...] th[e]re with the capti[ves]" — |
| Obverse [11:20] o 1212– | [NN] arrived in Šu[...] on the 6th; we have [now] inspec[ted] the captiv[es] and are herewith writing to the king, [our lord]. |
| Reverse [0:7] r 1r 1–r 77 | The people are ve[ry] we[ak]; weather has eaten up [their] loo[ks] and the mountains have crushed them. They are coming ague-stricken. |
| Reverse [7:8] r 88–r 88 | [The ki]ng, our lord, should know (this). |
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\d⸣-[ni] | |
| 2 | [ARAD-MEŠ]-⸢ni-ka⸣ | |
| 3 | {1}aš-šur—a]-lik—pa-ni\d | |
| 4 | {1}{d}U].⸢GUR⸣—MAN-a-ni | |
| 5 | ⸢lu šul-mu⸣ a-na ⸢LUGAL⸣ [EN-ni] | |
| 6 | ina UGU ša LUGAL [EN-ni] | |
| 7 | iš-pur-an-na-ši-[ni] | |
| 8 | ma-a ki-ma {lu₂v}EN.[NAM] | |
| 9 | iq-ṭar-ba ma-[a] | |
| 10 | TA@v\m {lu₂v}hu-ub-[te] | |
| 11 | ⸢an⸣-[na]-⸢ka⸣-a-⸢ma x⸣+[x x] | |
| 12 | UD 06-KAM₂\t {1}[x x x x x] | |
| 13 | ina {uru}šu-[x x x] | |
| 14 | iq-ṭar-ba [an-nu-rig] | |
| 15 | {lu₂v}hu-ub\m-[tu₂ o] | |
| 16 | ne₂-e-ta-[mar] | |
| b.e. | ||
| 17 | a-na LUGAL [EN-ni] | |
| 18 | ni-sa-ap-[ra] | |
| r | ||
| 1 | UN-MEŠ e-ta-[an-šu₂] | |
| 2 | a—dan-[niš] | |
| 3 | ⸢ša₂⸣-ar₂-bu ⸢lam⸣-[šu₂-nu] | |
| 4 | e-ta-kal KUR-⸢MEŠ⸣-[ni] | |
| 5 | ⸢im⸣-tar-qu-šu₂-nu | |
| 6 | qu-ba-te-šu₂-nu | |
| 7 | il-la-ku-u-ni | |
| 8 | ⸢LUGAL⸣ EN-ni\d lu u₂-da | |
Sources & licences
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