ABL 1280 (P334828)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 1280 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334828 |
| 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/saa09 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:1] o 1o 1–o 1o 1 | Words [concerning the Elam]ites. |
| Obverse [1:2] o 22–o 22 | [God] says as follows: |
| Obverse [2:3] o 33–o 33 | "I have go[ne and I ha]ve come." |
| Obverse [3:4] o 44–o 44 | He s[ai]d (this) five, six times, and then: |
| Obverse [4:7] o 55–o 77 | "I have come from the [m]ace. I have pulled out the snake which was inside it, I have cut it in pieces, and I have broken the mace." |
| Obverse [7:13] o 88– | And (he said): "I will destroy Elam; its army shall be levelled to the ground. In this manner I will finish Elam." |
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 | dib-bi [ša {kur}NIM.MA]{⸢ki⸣}a.a | |
| 2 | ki-i an-[ni-i DINGIR] ⸢i⸣-qab-bi | |
| 3 | ma-a at-⸢ta⸣-[lak at]-tal-ka | |
| 4 | 05-šu₂ 06-šu₂ iq-[ṭi]-⸢bi⸣ id—da-a-te id—da-a-te | |
| 5 | ma-a TA@v UGU {giš}[nar₃]-an-ti\t at-tal-ka | |
| 6 | ma-a MUŠ ša ina ŠA₃-bi-ša₂ as-sa-ad-da | |
| 7 | ab-ta-taq u₃ ma-a {giš}nar₃-an-tu | |
| 8 | ah-te-pi u₃ ma-a {kur}NIM.MA{ki} | |
| b.e. | ||
| 9 | a-hap\t-pi o A₂.2-MEŠ-šu₂ TA@v kaq-qir | |
| r | ||
| 1 | i-sap-pan ma-a ki-i an-ni-i | |
| 2 | {kur}NIM.MA{ki} a-gam-mar | |
Sources & licences
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