ABL 0071 (P334021)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0071 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334021 |
| 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/saa13 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:6] o 1o 1–o 66 | To the king, my lord: your servant Nabû-šumu-iddina. The very best of health to the king, my lord! May Nabû and Marduk bless the king, my lord! |
| Obverse [6:7] o 77–o 77 | 121 cavalry mounts, |
| Obverse [7:8] o 88–o 88 | 1 cavalry ...-mount: |
| Obverse [8:11] o 99–o 1111 | 122 cavalry [mounts] in all have come in from the commander-in-chief, incomplete; |
| Obverse [11:14] o 1212–o 1414 | 5 cavalry mounts have come in from the governor of Calah, incomplete — |
| Obverse [14:16] o 1515–o 1616 | a total of 127 cavalry mounts have come in today. |
| Obverse [16:30] o 1717– | [Concerning] the [hors]es trained to the yoke which came in yesterday from Barhalzi and Arrapha and about which I wrote to the king, my lord. — I will array them early in the morning. I will also array the hitched-up Mesean horses, which are kept hitched up at all times. |
| Reverse [11:13] r 1212–r 1313 | What are the written instructions of the king, my lord? |
| Reverse [13:14] r 1414–r 1414 | 5th day. |
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-na LUGAL be-li₂-ia | |
| 2 | ARAD-ka {1}{d}AG—MU—AŠ | |
| 3 | lu DI-mu a-na LUGAL be-li₂-ia | |
| 4 | a—dan-niš a—dan-niš | |
| 5 | {d}AG {d}AMAR.UTU a-na LUGAL | |
| 6 | be-li₂-ia lik-ru-bu | |
| 7 | 01 me 21 KUR-MEŠ BAD-HAL-li | |
| 8 | 01 šul-lam BAD-HAL-li | |
| 9 | PAB 01 me 22 [KUR] BAD-HAL | |
| 10 | ša {lu₂}tur-ta-ni | |
| 11 | e-tar-bu-u-ni la gam-ma-ru-ni | |
| 12 | 05 KUR BAD-HAL ša {lu₂v}EN.NAM | |
| 13 | ša {uru}kal-hi e-tar-bu-u-ni | |
| 14 | la gam-ma-ru-u-ni | |
| 15 | PAB 01 me 27 KUR BAD-HAL | |
| 16 | UD-mu an-ni-u e-tar-bu-ni | |
| 17 | [ina UGU {anše}KUR].⸢RA⸣-MEŠ | |
| 18 | ša ni-i-ri | |
| r | ||
| 1 | ša {kur}bar-hal-za | |
| 2 | ša {uru}arrap-ha | |
| 3 | ša ina ti-ma-li | |
| 4 | e-ru-bu-ni-ni a-na LUGAL | |
| 5 | be-li₂-ia aš₂-pur-an-ni | |
| 6 | ina kal-la-ma-a-ri | |
| 7 | a-sa-di-ir | |
| 8 | {anše}KUR.RA-MEŠ rak-ka-su-te | |
| 9 | me-sa-a-a ša ka-a-a-ma-ni-u | |
| 10 | u₂-rak-ka-su-ni | |
| 11 | i-se-niš-ma a-sa-di-ir | |
| 12 | mi-i-nu ša LUGAL | |
| 13 | be-li₂ i-šap-par-an-ni | |
| 14 | UD 05-KAM₂ | |
Sources & licences
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