ABL 1002 (P393918)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 1002 |
|---|---|
| ID | P393918 |
| 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 [4:5] o 5'5'–o 5'5' | this [......] |
| Obverse [5:6] o 6'6'–o 6'6' | Is it a work that [......] |
| Obverse [6:7] o 7'7'–o 7'7' | I look [......] |
| Obverse [7:8] o 8'8'–o 8'8' | [......] you guarded |
| Obverse [8:9] o 9'9'–o 9'9' | [...... up]on my name |
| Obverse [9:10] o 10'10'–o 10'10' | [...] he says |
| Obverse [10:14] o 11'11'– | [......] but he |
| Reverse [1:2] r 22–r 22 | you fell ...[...] . |
| Reverse [2:9] r 33–r 99 | And concerning Sîn-šarra-uṣur about whom you s[aid]: "He does not love Assyria," do I not know it? When he saw that my gods had not brought success in the hands of my enemy, he passed over, came, and grasped my feet. |
| Reverse [9:12] r 1010–r 1212 | And as to what you said, "He is saying terrible things about me in the presence of the magnates," what can this fool (do)? |
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 ⸢at-tu-nu EN⸣.[NUN ta-aṣ-ṣur-a-ni] | |
| 2' | tam-qut-a-ni me-ta-⸢ku⸣-[nu-u-ni x x x] | |
| 3' | u₃ ina UGU {1}{d}30—MAN—PAB ša₂ taq-ba-a-ni | |
| 4' | ma-a la ra-i-mu ša₂ KUR—aš-šur šu-u | |
| 5' | a-na-ku la u₂-da-a ki-i | |
| 6' | e-mur-u-ni DINGIR-MEŠ-ia₂ i-na ŠU.2 | |
| 7' | {lu₂}KUR₂-ia₂ la u₂-šal-lim-u₂-ni | |
| 8' | e-ta-at-qa it-tal-ka | |
| 9' | i-na GIR₃.2-MEŠ-ia₂ iṣ-ṣa-bat | |
| 10' | u ina UGU ša₂ taq-ba-a-ni ma-a | |
| 11' | dib-bi-ia sam-ku-u-te | |
| 12' | ina IGI {lu₂}GAL-MEŠ i-dab₂-bu-[ub] | |
| 13' | mi-i-nu {lu₂}hap-pu an-[ni-u] | |
| r | ||
| 1 | ina [UGU-hi-ka i-qab-bi x x x] | |
| 2 | u ina ⸢UGU⸣ [x x x x x x x x] | |
| 3 | šul [x x x x x x x x] | |
| 4 | it-⸢ta⸣-[x x x x x x x] | |
| 5 | an-ni-u [x x x x x x x] | |
| 6 | dul-lu-u ša₂ a-⸢na⸣ [x x x x x] | |
| 7 | a-dag-⸢gal⸣ [x] ⸢um x⸣+[x x x x x] | |
| 8 | ⸢EN⸣.NUN ⸢ta⸣-aṣ-⸢ṣur⸣-a-ni | |
| 9 | [tam]-qut-⸢a-ni ina UGU⸣ šu-me-ia₂ | |
| 10 | [me-ta-ku-nu]-u-ni šu-u i-qab-bi-a | |
| 11 | [x x x x x] ⸢muh⸣-hu-u šu-u | |
| 12 | [x x x x x x x x x x] ⸢GA⸣ NAG | |
Sources & licences
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