1883-01-18, 0119 unpublished unassigned ? (P452645)
Administrative Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | 1883-01-18, 0119 unpublished unassigned ? |
|---|---|
| ID | P452645 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | Administrative 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 [0:13] o 1'1'– | As to what you said, ["May the king not abandon U]r, and may the Gurasimmu not get [lost to the king]! What else can be done? Let me do it!" — did I not send send the governor of Mazamua and the prefects, did they not keep watch with you, did they not weaken and did they not die for your defence? When I saw that they were weakening and dying, I sent orders to release them, (but) did I not appoint with you the governors of Lahiru and Arrapha? |
| Reverse [0:5] r 1r 1–r 55 | And now, even befo[re you wrote me], I sent the treasurer Aššur-gimilli-terra with an army. Do whatever is opportune to do, be it to block the canal or to subjugate those people. |
| Reverse [5:10] r 66–r 1010 | After the letter which you sent I am sending to you Bel-eṭir and Arbayu, the cohort [commander]. They are [brin]ging with them (200) horses, and will stay and [work] with you. |
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' | [ina] ⸢UGU⸣ ša₂ taq-bu-u-[ni ma MAN la u₂-ram-ma] | |
| 2' | ⸢ŠEŠ⸣.UNUG u gur₂-sim-mu la [ŠU.2 MAN] | |
| 3' | la IL₂-MEŠ a-ke-e ah—hur | |
| 4' | ep-pu-šu₂ ana-ku DU₃ la aš₂-pu-ru | |
| 5' | NAM {kur}za-mu-u {lu₂}GAR-ME KI-ku-nu | |
| 6' | la iṣ-ṣu-ru la e-ni-šu₂ la UŠ₂-MEŠ | |
| 7' | ina UGU EN.NUN-ku-nu ki IGI.LAL-ni | |
| 8' | e-ni-šu₂-ni UŠ₂-MEŠ-ni KIN DU₈-šu₂-nu | |
| 9' | EN.NAM la-hi-ri u EN.[NAM] | |
| 10' | ar₂-rap-ha KI-ku-nu | |
| b.e. | ||
| 11' | la ap-qid 0 | |
| r | ||
| 1 | u u₂-ma-a ki ud-⸢din⸣ [la KIN] | |
| 2 | {1}AN.ŠAR₂—ŠU—GUR mas-en-⸢nu⸣ e-muq-qi | |
| 3 | KI-šu₂ KIN-ra mi-nu ša₂ ana DU₃ | |
| 4 | DUG₃-u-ni ep-ša₂ BE-ma har-ru sik-ra | |
| 5 | BE-ma UN-MEŠ am-mu-te kub-sa | |
| 6 | u ina da-at ša₂ e-gir₂-tu₂ KIN-ni | |
| 7 | {1}EN—ŠUR {1}ar-ba-a.a | |
| 8 | [GAL]—ki-ṣir [GAL]—ki-ṣir KUR-MEŠ ina ŠU.2-šu₂-nu | |
| 9 | [na]-⸢ṣu⸣-ni iz-za-zu ⸢KI-ku⸣-nu | |
| 10 | [dul-lu ep-pu-šu] | |
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