ABL 1083 (P334725)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 1083 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334725 |
| 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 [Nashir-Bel]. Good health t[o the king, my lord]! |
| Obverse [3:5] o 44–o 55 | The land [of the king] is we[ll, the forts] are [well. The king, my lord, can be glad]. |
| Reverse [1:2] r 2'2'–r 2'2' | in order to make [...] agree [...], |
| Reverse [2:5] r 3'3'–r 5'5' | the Hubuškian w[rote to him], saying: "[They are] no spies; they are Nuraeans who have run away fr[om ...]." |
| Reverse [5:12] r 6'6'– | When the governor of Waisi en[tered] Muṣaṣir, the Hubuškians stood [in his presence, saying: " If] you send [......] |
| Edge [0:1] e. 1e. 1–e. 1e. 1 | you light [...] his [......] |
| Edge [1:2] e. 22–e. 22 | [......] Muṣaṣir |
| Edge [2:3] e. 33–e. 33 | [......] for the lives [......] |
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\t LUGAL [EN-ia] | |
| 2 | ARAD-ka {1}[NIGIN—EN] | |
| 3 | lu-u DI-mu a-[na LUGAL EN-ia₂] | |
| 4 | DI-[mu] a-na\t KUR [ša LUGAL EN-ia₂] | |
| 5 | [DI-mu] ⸢a-na\t⸣ {[uru}HAL.ṢU-MEŠ] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | ⸢TA⸣ na\t-⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x x x x x] | |
| 2' | a-na ma-gu-ri [x x x x x] | |
| 3' | {kur}hu-buš-ka-a.a i-⸢sa⸣-[ap-ra-šu₂] | |
| 4' | ma-a la {lu₂v}da\d-a.a-⸢URU⸣ [x x x] | |
| 5' | ma-a {uru}nu-ra-a.a ša\dym ⸢TA⸣ [x x] | |
| 6' | ih\p-li\d-qu-u-ni šu₂-⸢nu ki⸣-i {lu₂v}EN.NAM [o] | |
| 7' | ša\dym {⸢kur⸣}u₂-a-si a-na\t {⸢kur⸣}mu-ṣa-ṣir ⸢e⸣-[ru-bu-ni] | |
| r.e. | ||
| 8 | {kur}⸢hu⸣-buš-ka-a.⸢a⸣ [ina pa-ni-šu₂] | |
| 9 | it-⸢ti⸣-it-su [ma-a BE-ma x x] | |
| 10 | ta-šap-pa-⸢ra⸣ [x x x x] | |
| e. | ||
| 1 | [x x x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣-šu₂ ta-na-pa-ha | |
| 2 | [x x x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ {kur}mu-ṣa-ṣir | |
| 3 | [x x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ a-na\t nu-up-ša₂-te | |
| 4 | [x x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ | |
Sources & licences
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