ABL 0089 (P334038)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0089 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334038 |
| 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 [5:18] o 66– | A boat of mine which the Treasurer used for carrying money downstream is anchored at Bab-bitqi, and a boat of the governor of Arrapha is doing ferry service at Opis. The king, my lord, knows that we have to bring over straw and fodder from the other bank. |
| Reverse [0:9] r 1r 1–r 99 | Now, let the governor of Arrapha's boat go and serve as a ferry at Bab-bitqi, and let mine come so we can use it to bring straw and fodder over at Opis. |
| Reverse [9:13] r 1010–r 1313 | The men of the governor of Arrapha are doing the ferrying at Bab-bitqi. |
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 EN-ia₂ | |
| 2 | ARAD-ka {1}DUG₃.GA—ṣil—E₂.ŠAR₂.RA | |
| 3 | lu DI-mu a-na LUGAL EN-ia₂ | |
| 4 | aš-šur {d}NIN.LIL₂ a-na LUGAL EN-ia₂ | |
| 5 | lik-ru-bu | |
| 6 | {giš}MA₂ ši-i ia-a-tu₂ | |
| 7 | {lu₂v}IGI.DUB\m kas-pu ina ŠA₃-bi | |
| 8 | u₂-se-ri-da\d | |
| 9 | i-na {uru}KA₂—bit-qi | |
| 10 | ta-za-az\td-za | |
| 11 | u₃ {giš}MA₂ ša {lu₂v}EN.NAM | |
| 12 | ša {uru}arrap-ha ina ŠA₃ {uru}u₂-pi-a | |
| 13 | ne₂-bu-ru tu₂-pa-aš₂ | |
| 14 | LUGAL EN u₂-da\d | |
| 15 | ki-i {še}IN.NU {še}ki-su-tu₂ | |
| 16 | TA ba-te am-me-te | |
| 17 | nu-še-bar-[u-ni] | |
| r | ||
| 1 | [u₂]-⸢ma⸣-a {giš}MA₂ | |
| 2 | [ša] {lu₂v}EN.NAM ša₂ {uru}arrap-ha | |
| 3 | lu-u ta-li\t-ik | |
| 4 | i-na {uru}KA₂—bit-qi | |
| 5 | ne₂-bu-ru lu tu₂-pi-iš | |
| 6 | u₃ ia-a-tu₂ lu ta-li-ka | |
| 7 | i-na {uru}u₂-pi-a | |
| 8 | {še}IN.NU {še}ki-su-tu₂ | |
| 9 | ina ŠA₃-bi-ša₂ nu-še-bi-ra | |
| 10 | {lu₂v}ERIM-MEŠ ša {lu₂v}EN.NAM | |
| 11 | ša {uru}arrap-ha | |
| 12 | ina {uru}KA₂—bit-qi | |
| 13 | ne₂-bu-ru | |
| 14 | u₂-pu-šu | |
Sources & licences
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