ABL 1058 (P334705)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 1058 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334705 |
| 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 [0:1] o 1'1'–o 1'1' | "in [......] |
| Obverse [1:2] o 2'2'–o 2'2' | "the house of the wi[dow ......] |
| Obverse [2:3] o 3'3'–o 3'3' | "Aššur-le'[i ...] |
| Obverse [3:4] o 4'4'–o 4'4' | came [...] |
| Obverse [4:5] o 5'5'–o 5'5' | he is safe and has [...]. |
| Obverse [5:18] o 6'6'– | Nabû-hamatua wrote m[e] that Aššur-le['i] is going to Ullusunu, and that Ullusunu has given five horses to Aššur-le'i. Nabû-hamatua has itemized the horses he gave him by colour in a clay tablet (which) he (also) sent me. I have forwarded the letters of Nabû-hamatua to Nineveh, and they will have read them to the king (by now). |
| Reverse [0:8] r 1r 1–r 88 | As to the eunuch of Aššur-le'i who is with Nabû-hamatua, about whom the king my lord wrote me, it is the third year already since he fled to Nabû-hamatua, so it is not possible to get him down from there. Let them bring him over to me when he is inside his country. |
| Reverse [8:12] r 99–r 1212 | As to Bel-ahhe, the merchant about whom the king, my lord, wrote, I shall secretly send word that they bring him to me, and I shall (then) send him t[o the king, my lord]. |
| Reverse [12:14] r 1313–r 1414 | [Everything is fi]ne [wi]th the fort [...] |
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' | ⸢ma⸣-a ina [x x x x x x x] | |
| 2' | E₂ {mi₂}⸢al⸣-[mat-te x x x x] | |
| 3' | ma-a {1}aš-šur—⸢ZU⸣ [x x x x x] | |
| 4' | i-ta-la-⸢ka⸣ [x x x x] | |
| 5' | šal-mu\p šu-u i-⸢sa⸣-[x x x] | |
| 6' | {1}{d}PA—ha-mat-u-a ina ⸢UGU⸣-[hi-ia] | |
| 7' | i-sap-ra ma-a {1}aš-šur—⸢ZU\t⸣ [o] | |
| 8' | ina UGU {1}u₂\m-li\d-su\t-ni ⸢il⸣-lak | |
| 9' | ma-a 05 KUR.RA-MEŠ\m {1}u₂\m-li\d-su\t-nu | |
| 10' | a-na {1}aš-šur—ZU\t i-ti\t-din KUR.RA-MEŠ\m | |
| 11' | ša\ty i-di-na-šu₂-u-ni {1}{d}PA—ha-mat-u-a | |
| 12' | ina ŠA₃-bi e-gir-te a-na UZU-MEŠ\m-ni | |
| 13' | i-sa-ṭar u₂\m-se-bi-la | |
| 14' | e-gir-a-te ša\ty {1}{d}PA—ha-mat-u-a | |
| 15' | ina {uru}NINA pa-an LUGAL EN-ia₂ | |
| b.e. | ||
| 16' | u₂\m-se-ri-ba\t | |
| r | ||
| 1 | i-si-si-i-u TA@v\m UGU | |
| 2 | {lu₂vy}SAG\td ša\ty {1}aš-šur—ZU\t ša\ty pa-an | |
| 3 | {1}{d}PA—ha-mat-u-a ša\ty LUGAL EN | |
| 4 | iš\t-pur-an-ni 03-su\t MU.AN.NA | |
| 5 | TA@v\m E₂ pa-an {1}{d}PA—ha-mat-u-a | |
| 6 | ih-li\d-qa-an-ni la i-lak | |
| 7 | a-na še-ru-di a-ki-i | |
| 8 | qa\d-ab-si KUR-šu₂ lu-u-še\p-ti\t-qu-u-ni-šu₂ | |
| 9 | TA@v\m UGU {1}EN—PAB-MEŠ\m {lu₂vy}DAM.QAR | |
| 10 | ša\ty LUGAL EN iš\t-pur-an-ni | |
| 11 | ša₂-pal ŠU.2 a-šap-pa-⸢ra⸣ | |
| 12 | u₂\m-bal-u-ni-šu₂ ina ⸢UGU⸣ [LUGAL EN-ia₂] | |
| 13 | u₂-še-bal-a-šu₂ DI-[mu a—dan-niš] | |
| 14 | [a]-⸢na {uru⸣}HAL.ṢU ⸢x⸣+[x x x x] | |
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