ABL 1175 (P334771)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 1175 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334771 |
| 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/saa15 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [1:2] o 2'2'–o 2'2' | [...... bef]ore me |
| Obverse [2:3] o 3'3'–o 3'3' | [......] utensils |
| Obverse [4:5] o 5'5'–o 5'5' | [...... bef]ore me |
| Obverse [5:6] o 6'6'–o 6'6' | [......] the king, my lord |
| Obverse [6:7] o 7'7'–o 7'7' | [......] I shall do |
| Obverse [7:8] o 8'8'–o 8'8' | [......] Luhuteans |
| Obverse [8:9] o 9'9'–o 9'9' | [......] the Hatalleans |
| Obverse [9:10] o 10'10'–o 10'10' | [......] with them |
| Obverse [10:11] o 11'11'–o 11'11' | Let [the king, my lord], decide their [......]. |
| Obverse [11:15] o 12'12'–o 15'15' | [Conc]erning the Hatalleans [...... of] Metunu [about whom the king, my lord, wr]ote to me: "[......] your arms |
| Obverse [15:16] o 16'16'–o 16'16' | [...... Bit]-Amukaneans |
| Obverse [16:18] o 17'17'–o 18'18' | [......] 200 men |
| Reverse [0:1] r 1'1'–r 1'1' | [......] there |
| Reverse [1:2] r 2'2'–r 2'2' | [......] they chopped |
| Reverse [2:3] r 3'3'–r 3'3' | [...... t]hey collected |
| Reverse [3:4] r 4'4'–r 4'4' | [...... w]ithout knowing |
| Reverse [4:5] r 5'5'–r 5'5' | I sent him [t]his [...] |
| Reverse [5:6] r 6'6'–r 6'6' | [......] criminals |
| Reverse [6:7] r 7'7'–r 7'7' | [......] he molested [the]se [...] |
| Reverse [7:8] r 8'8'–r 8'8' | [......: "Inquire] and investigate!" |
| Reverse [8:9] r 9'9'–r 9'9' | [......] he is their [...] |
| Reverse [9:10] r 10'10'–r 10'10' | [......] to see [...] |
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' | [x x x x x x x x x x]-ni | |
| 2' | [x x x x x x x]-⸢ni⸣-ia | |
| 3' | [x x x x x x x x] a-nu-te | |
| 4' | [x x x x x x x x x]-⸢an⸣-ni | |
| 5' | [x x x x x x x x]-ni-ia | |
| 6' | [x x x x x x x] LUGAL be-li₂ | |
| 7' | [x x x x x x x] ⸢e⸣-pa-aš₂ | |
| 8' | [x x x x x] {lu₂v}lu-hu-ta-a.a | |
| 9' | [x x x x x] {lu₂v}ha-tal-a.a | |
| 10' | [x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ i-si-šu₂-nu | |
| 11' | [x x x x x]+⸢x⸣-šu₂-nu lip-ru\d-su\t | |
| 12' | [x x x x ina] UGU {lu₂v}ha-tal-a.a | |
| 13' | [x x x x x x] {1}mi-tu-nu | |
| 14' | [ša LUGAL be-li₂ iš]-pur-an-ni ma-a | |
| 15' | [x x x x x x]-nu A₂.2-ku-nu | |
| 16' | [x x x x x E₂—{1}⸢u₂⸣-ka-na-a.a | |
| 17' | [x x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ 02 me ERIM-MEŠ\m | |
| 18' | [x x x x x x x x x]+⸢x x⸣ | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [x x x x x] ina ŠA₃-bi | |
| 2' | [x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ uh-ta-bi-šu₂ | |
| 3' | [x x x x x] ⸢e⸣-ta-as-pu | |
| 4' | [x x x x a]-na la mu-da\d-nu-te | |
| 5' | [x x an]-⸢ni⸣-i-u a-sap-raš-šu₂ | |
| 6' | [x x x x x] {lu₂v}par-ri-ṣu-te | |
| 7' | [x x x x]-nu-te ih-ta-sa-aʾ | |
| 8' | [x x x ša₂-ʾa-al] uṣ-ṣi-ṣi | |
| 9' | [x x x x x x]-šu₂-nu šu-u₂ | |
| 10' | [x x x x x x] a-ma-ri <$x$> | |
Sources & licences
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