ABL 1085 (P334727)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 1085 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334727 |
| 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/saa01 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:1] o 1'1'–o 1'1' | [As to PN] about whom the king, my lord, [wrote to me]: "Send (word) that he should [be arrested] and brought to me!" — |
| Obverse [1:16] o 2'2'– | I sent (this order) and they searched [for him] in Barhalza but could not find him. They went to Mutianni, his home town, but again to no avail; just a lone brother of his was living there. They seized him and brought him to me; I asked him where his brother was, and he (answered): "He did certainly not come to me." |
| Reverse [4:6] r 55–r 66 | I am now sending [him] to the king, my lord. |
| Reverse [6:9] r 77–r 99 | Further, a fu[gitive has arrived on the ...]th to Šul[mu-...... |
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' | ⸢ša LUGAL be-li₂⸣ [iš-pur-an-ni] | |
| 2' | ma-a šu-pur ⸢li\d⸣-[iṣ-bu-tu₂] | |
| 3' | lu-bi-lu-ni-šu₂ a-sa-⸢par⸣ [o] | |
| 4' | ina {kur}bar-hal-za ub-ta-iu-[u-šu] | |
| 5' | la-a-šu₂ la-a e-mu-ru-šu | |
| 6' | a-na {uru}mu-ti\t-an-ni | |
| 7' | ina ŠA₃ URU-šu it-tal\d-ku | |
| 8' | la-a-aš₂-šu₂ | |
| b.e. | ||
| 9' | ŠEŠ-šu šu-u-tu | |
| 10' | e-du-ma-nu ina ŠA₃-bi | |
| r | ||
| 1 | kam-mu-su i-ṣab-tu | |
| 2 | na-ṣu-ni-šu₂ a-sa-al-šu | |
| 3 | nu-uk\d ŠEŠ-ka a-le-e | |
| 4 | ma-a la il-li-kam-ma ina UGU-hi-a | |
| 5 | an-nu-rig ina UGU LUGAL EN-a | |
| 6 | u₂-se-bi-⸢la⸣-[šu] | |
| 7 | u₃ {lu₂v}ma-[aq-tu] | |
| 8 | [ina] UGU {1}DI\d-[x x x] | |
| 9 | [UD x]-KAM₂\t ⸢x⸣+[x x x] | |
Sources & licences
- Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative · CDLI: reuse of catalogue/transliteration data with citation of CDLI; images restricted (not fetched) · Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI), https://cdli.earth/ ; cite CDLI and the P-number
- 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) · ORACC project editions, https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ ; cite the individual project (see texts.extra_json.project)
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