ABL 0087 (P334036)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0087 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334036 |
| 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/saa01 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:5] o 1o 1–o 55 | To the king, my lord: your servant Ṭab-ṣill-Ešarra. Good health to the king, my lord! May Aššur and Mullissu bless the king, my lord! |
| Obverse [5:16] o 66– | I [asked] the carpenters: "Why [...]? Do the rest of [the work] in Sa[pirrutu]!" They said: "The days [...] here [...]; we are making br[oa]d planks ......" |
| Reverse [1:6] r 22–r 66 | "...... that] I have cut stal[ks] in Ekallate." I am bringing and settling them (= the carpenters) there right now, and they are going to do it. |
| Reverse [6:14] r 77–r 1414 | One carpenter from their ranks (who was) in the presence of the king, my lord, came (to me) saying: "I am going by the order of the king himself; the king told [us] to go to Sapirrutu, so we shall go." |
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\t LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 2 | ARAD-ka {1}DUG₃.GA—ṣil\m—E₂.ŠAR₂ o | |
| 3 | lu DI-mu a-na\t LUGAL EN-ia₂ | |
| 4 | aš-šur {d}NIN.LIL₂ a-[na LUGAL] | |
| 5 | EN-ia lik-[ru-bu] | |
| 6 | a-na\t {lu₂v}NAGAR-MEŠ [a-sa-al] | |
| 7 | mu-ku at-a ba-[x x x] | |
| 8 | re-eh-ti\t [dul-li] | |
| 9 | ina {uru}sa-[pir-ri-te] ⸢ep⸣-ša₂ | |
| 10 | ma-a UD-MEŠ [x x x x]+⸢x⸣ | |
| 11 | ma-a an-na-⸢ka⸣ [x x x] | |
| 12 | GIŠ-MEŠ ra-ap-[šu-u]-⸢te⸣ | |
| 13 | ne₂-pa-aš₂ ma-a [x x x]+⸢x⸣ | |
| 14 | bu-[x x x x x x x x] | |
| 15 | ⸢ma⸣-[a x x x x x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1 | [x] {⸢giš⸣}ziq\m-[pi] | |
| 2 | ⸢ina⸣ {uru}E₂.GAL-⸢at⸣ | |
| 3 | ak-ki-su-u-ni | |
| 4 | an-nu-rig u₂\m-bal | |
| 5 | ina ŠA₃-bi u₂-ša₂-aš₂-kan-šu₂-nu | |
| 6 | e-pu-uš-šu₂\d | |
| 7 | 01-en {lu₂v}NAGAR-MEŠ TA\m ŠA₃-bi-šu₂-nu | |
| 8 | ina pa-an LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 9 | i-ta\p-al-ka | |
| 10 | ma-a al-lak | |
| 11 | TA\m pi-i ša LUGAL-⸢ma⸣ | |
| 12 | ma-a LUGAL iq-ṭi₂-⸢ba⸣-[na-ši] | |
| 13 | ma-a a-na {uru}⸢sa-pi-ri-te⸣ | |
| 14 | li-kal-ka | |
| 15 | ma-a ni-il-lak | |
Sources & licences
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- 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) · ORACC project editions, https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ ; cite the individual project (see texts.extra_json.project)
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