ABL 0090 (P334039)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0090 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334039 |
| 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 [5:12] o 66–o 1212 | As to the treaty tablet of Gurdî about which the king, my lord, wrote to me, the adjutant of the Palace Superintendent came and picked it up on the 1st of Ab (V). |
| Obverse [12:22] o 1313– | [As soon as] the emissaries [had ar]rived, they brought the tre[aty tablet to the Inner Cit]y; [the body]guard and the messenger of the Palace Superintendent went with them and introduced it into the courtyard of the temple. |
| Reverse [7:16] r 88– | The messenger of the Palace Superintendent who brought it said: "I am under orders to return the tablet", so he got it back (after the ceremonies). The city overseer, the temple steward and Kenî the temple scribe entrusted me [...]. |
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-⸢ia₂⸣ | |
| 2 | ARAD-ka {1}DUG₃.GA—ṣil\m—E₂.ŠAR₂.RA | |
| 3 | lu DI-mu a-na\t LUGAL EN-ia₂ | |
| 4 | aš-šur {d}NIN.LIL₂ a-na\t LUGAL | |
| 5 | EN-ia lik-ru-bu | |
| 6 | ina UGU ṭup\m-pi a-de\d-e | |
| 7 | ša {1}gur₂-di-i | |
| 8 | ša LUGAL EN iš-pur-ni | |
| 9 | ina ITI\m ša {itim}NE | |
| 10 | {lu₂v}UŠ—qa-ti\t {lu₂v}UŠ—qa-ti\t {lu₂v}UŠ—qa-ti\t | |
| 11 | ša {lu₂v}ša₂—IGI—E₂.GAL | |
| 12 | ⸢i⸣-[tal]-ka i-ti\t-ši | |
| 13 | [TA@v E₂] {⸢lu₂v⸣}MAH-MEŠ | |
| 14 | [il]-⸢li⸣-ku-ni-ni | |
| r | ||
| 1 | [ṭup\m-pi a]-⸢de⸣-e | |
| 2 | [ina {uru}ŠA₃]—⸢URU⸣ na\t-ṣu-ni | |
| 3 | {[lu₂v}qur]-bu-te | |
| 4 | {lu₂v}A—KIN {lu₂v}A—KIN ša {lu₂v}ša₂—IGI—E₂.GAL | |
| 5 | i-si-šu₂-nu i-tal-ku-ni | |
| 6 | ina TUR₃ ša E₂—DINGIR E₂—DINGIR E₂—DINGIR | |
| 7 | u₂\m-se-ri-bu | |
| 8 | {lu₂v}A—KIN {lu₂v}A—KIN {lu₂v}A—KIN ša {lu₂v}ša₂—IGI—E₂.GAL | |
| 9 | ša na-ṣa-a-ni | |
| 10 | ma-a ṭe₃-e-mu | |
| 11 | ša₂-ak-na\t-ku ma-a ṭup\m-pu\t | |
| 12 | sa-hi-ra u₂\m-sa-hi-ir | |
| 13 | i-ti\t-ši {lu₂v}ša₂—UGU—URU | |
| 14 | {lu₂v}lah₂-hi-nu | |
| r.e. | ||
| 15 | {1}⸢GIN⸣-i {lu₂v}A.BA—⸢E₂⸣—[DINGIR {lu₂v}A.BA—⸢E₂⸣—[DINGIR {lu₂v}A.BA—⸢E₂⸣—[DINGIR {lu₂v}A.BA—⸢E₂⸣—[DINGIR {lu₂v}A.BA—⸢E₂⸣—[DINGIR x] | |
| 16 | ip-taq-du-ni | |
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