ABL 0289 (P393821)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0289 |
|---|---|
| ID | P393821 |
| 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/saa21 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:4] o 1o 1–o 44 | The king's word to the Sealanders, old and young, my servants: I am well; you can be glad. |
| Obverse [4:11] o 55–o 1111 | See now how, because I hold you in good regard and have dissociated you from the crime of Nabû-bel-šumate, the whore of Menanu, I am now sending you my servant Bel-ibni, who belongs to my entourage, to (assume your) leadership. |
| Obverse [11:16] o 1212–o 1616 | As for you, [do] correspondingly in the matter which is good to me and which is within the [...] the Seala[nders ......] |
| Reverse [1:9] r 22–r 99 | You will see whether there is no profi[t] for servants who promote the wish of their lords, and what rewards and favours you will have from me after I have sent my army and it has done its job. |
| Reverse [9:11] r 1010–r 1111 | Month of Iyyar (II), 5th day, eponym year of Bel-Harran-šadû'a (650). |
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-mat LUGAL a-na {lu₂}{kur}tam-tim-a-a | |
| 2 | {lu₂}AB.BA-MEŠ u TUR-MEŠ ARAD-MEŠ-ia₂ | |
| 3 | DI-mu a.a-ši ŠA₃-ba-ku-nu | |
| 4 | lu-u ṭa-ab-ku-nu-ši | |
| 5 | a-mu-ra en-na ak-ka-a-ʾi | |
| 6 | ina ŠA₃ ša₂ IGI.2-a.a ina UGU-hi-ku-nu | |
| 7 | u₃ la—pa-an hi-iṭ {1}{d}AG—EN—MU-MEŠ | |
| 8 | {mi₂}KAR.KID ša₂ {1}me-na-nu | |
| 9 | ap-ru-su-ku-nu-ši a-du-u₂ | |
| 10 | {1}{d}EN—DU₃ ARAD-a u {lu₂}GUB.BA—pa-ni-ia₂ {lu₂}GUB.BA—pa-ni-ia₂ | |
| 11 | a-na a-lik—pa-nu-ti a-lik—pa-nu-ti ana UGU-hi-ku-nu | |
| 12 | al-tap-ra at-tu-nu | |
| 13 | ap—pit₂-tim-ma ap—pit₂-tim-ma ina ŠA₃ a-mat | |
| 14 | ša₂ ina UGU-hi-ia ⸢ṭa-ba-at⸣ | |
| 15 | ša₂ ina ŠA₃-bi ša₂ [x x x x] | |
| 16 | {lu₂}tam-⸢tim⸣-[u₂-a x x x x] | |
| 17 | ⸢la⸣ [x x x x x x x x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1 | dul-[x x x x x x x x] | |
| 2 | tam-ma-ra ne₂-me-⸢il⸣-[ku-nu] | |
| 3 | ša ARAD-MEŠ ša₂ ṣi-bu-[tu] | |
| 4 | ša₂ EN-MEŠ-šu-nu iš-šu-nu | |
| 5 | ia-aʾ-nu-u₂ aš₂-ša₂ ana-ku | |
| 6 | {lu₂}e-mu-qe₂-ia al-tap-ra | |
| 7 | i-tep-šu at-tu-ku-nu | |
| 8 | mi-nu-u dum-qi₂-ku-nu | |
| 9 | u MUN-ku-nu i-na IGI-ia₂ | |
| 10 | {iti}GUD UD 05-KAM₂ | |
| 11 | lim-mu {1}EN—KASKAL—KUR-u-a | |
Sources & licences
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