ABL 1115 (P334742)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 1115 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334742 |
| 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 [0:5] o 1o 1–o 55 | [To the king, our lord: your servants Nabû-ra'im-nišešu (and) Salamanu]. Good [health to the king], our [lo]rd! May Nabû (and) [Marduk] bless [the king, our lord]! |
| Obverse [5:18] o 66–o 1818 | Con[cerning the messeng]er from Nip[pur], about whom the king wrote to us: "Ask him!" — We asked him (and he replied): "The messenger of Pa'e, the legate of the land Araši, has come to Nippur (saying): 'The kings have made peace with one another, so why have you taken plunder/captives?' The recruitment officers told him: '[...] |
| Reverse [9:10] r 1010–r 1010 | "They have entered the city [...] |
| Reverse [10:11] r 1111–r 1111 | "[......] |
| Reverse [11:12] r 1212–r 1212 | of [... ar]chers |
| Reverse [12:13] r 1313–r 1313 | 1 [......] donkeys |
| Reverse [13:17] r 1414–r 1717 | They will enter [Arrap]ha either tomorrow, o[r the day] after tomorrow. |
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 EN-ni] | |
| 2 | [ARAD-MEŠ-ka {1}{d}PA—AG₂—UN-MEŠ-šu₂] | |
| 3 | {1}sa-la-ma-nu] lu-u [DI-mu] | |
| 4 | [a-na LUGAL] ⸢EN⸣-ni {d}PA {⸢d⸣}[AMAR.UTU] | |
| 5 | [a-na LUGAL EN-ni] lik-ru-bu | |
| 6 | ina [UGU DUMU—šip]-⸢ri⸣ DUMU—šip]-⸢ri⸣ ša TA@v EN.⸢LIL₂⸣{[ki]} | |
| 7 | ša LUGAL iš-pu-ra-na-ši-an-ni | |
| 8 | ma-a ša₂-ʾa-al-šu₂ ni-is-sa-al-šu₂ | |
| 9 | ma-a DUMU—šip-ri DUMU—šip-ri ša {1}pa-ʾe-e | |
| 10 | {lu₂v}qe-e-pi ša {kur}a-ra-še | |
| 11 | a-na EN.LIL₂{ki} it-tal-ka | |
| 12 | ma-a LUGAL-MEŠ is-sa-he-iš is-sal-mu | |
| 13 | ma-a at-tu-nu a-ta-a | |
| 14 | hu-ub-tu₂ tah-bu-ta | |
| 15 | ma-a {⸢lu₂v⸣}mu-⸢šar-kis-a-ni iq⸣-ṭi₂-bu-niš-šu₂ | |
| 16 | ma-a [x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣-MEŠ-ni | |
| 17 | [x x x x x x x x x x] hur | |
| 18 | [x x x x x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ | |
| b.e. | ||
| 19 | [x x x x x] ni [x x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1 | [x x x x x x x x x] | |
| 2 | [x x x x x x x] še ⸢x⸣+[x] | |
| 3 | [x x x x x x x x] ⸢x⸣+[x] | |
| 4 | [x x x x x x x x x x] | |
| 5 | [x x x x x x x] be šu₂ | |
| 6 | la [x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ | |
| 7 | ma-a [x x x x x x]-i | |
| 8 | a-na [x x x x x x]-a | |
| 9 | ma-a [x x x x x x]-u-ni | |
| 10 | ina {uru}⸢x⸣+[x x x x x] e-tar-bu | |
| 11 | ma-a ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x]-ri | |
| 12 | ša [x x x {lu₂v}ERIM]-MEŠ—{giš}BAN {lu₂v}ERIM]-MEŠ—{giš}BAN | |
| 13 | 01 ⸢x⸣+[x x x] ANŠE.NITA₂-MEŠ | |
| 14 | ⸢x⸣+[x x x x] šum₂-ma iš—ši-a-ri iš—ši-a-ri | |
| 15 | ⸢šum₂⸣-[ma ina] ⸢li⸣-di-iš | |
| 16 | [ina {uru}arrap]-ha er-ra-bu-u-ni | |
| 17 | [x x x x] ⸢x x⸣ [x x] ⸢x⸣ [x] | |
Sources & licences
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