ABL 0092 (P334041)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0092 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334041 |
| 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 [0:8] o 1o 1–o 88 | To the king, my lord: your servant Ṭab-ṣill-E[šarra]. Ešarra is well, the temples are well, the Inner City is well, Assyria is well, may the king, my lord, be well! May Aššur and Mullissu bless the king, my lord! |
| Obverse [8:10] o 99–o 1010 | As to what the king, my lord, wrote to me: 'Count the intact beams and write me!", |
| Obverse [10:21] o 1111– | I have just written down the numbers of the beams and am sending them herewith to the king, my lord: 372 heavy beams, 808 second-size, 2,313 third-size, 11,807 fourth-size, in all 15,290 sound ones, plus 13,157 damaged or burnt. |
| Reverse [1:7] r 55–r 1010 | ...] I transferred the [beams which had been] damaged to the intact ones; now, they have been counted by the Palace Herald and the Treasurer on top of the damaged ones. Perhaps the king, my lord (now) says: "Why is it that there appears to be a deficit in the figures?" |
| Reverse [7:13] r 1111–r 1616 | Some were so totally consumed by the fire that we found no physical remains of them, some [were ...] from the midst, some from the top of [...] ...... (and) were [carri]ed [off] by the river. |
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.RA] | |
| 3 | DI-mu a-na\t E₂.ŠAR₂.RA{ki} | |
| 4 | DI-mu a-na\t E₂.KUR-MEŠ | |
| 5 | DI-mu a-na\t {uru}ŠA₃—URU | |
| 6 | DI-mu a-na\t KUR—aš-šur{[ki]} KUR—aš-šur{[ki]} KUR—aš-šur{[ki]} | |
| 7 | lu DI-mu a-na LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 8 | aš-šur {d}NIN.LIL₂ a-na\t LUGAL EN-ia₂ lik-ru-bu | |
| 9 | ša LUGAL EN iš\t-pur-an-ni | |
| 10 | ma-a {giš}UR₃-MEŠ TI\t.LA-MEŠ mu-nu šup-ra | |
| 11 | an-nu-ri ni-pa-ni ša {giš}UR₃-MEŠ | |
| 12 | a-sa-⸢ṭar⸣ ina pa-an LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 13 | u₂-se-bi-la | |
| 14 | 03 me 72 {giš}UR₃-MEŠ KALAG-MEŠ | |
| 15 | 08 me 08 02-ti\t | |
| 16 | 02 lim 03 me 13 03-ti\t | |
| 17 | 11 lim 08 me 07 04-ti\t | |
| 18 | PAB 15 lim 02 me <$x$> šal-mu-te | |
| b.e. | ||
| 19 | u 13 lim 01 me 57 | |
| 20 | lap-tu₂-te KU₂-MEŠ | |
| r | ||
| 4 | ki-[x x x x x x] | |
| 5 | ša [x x x x x] ⸢lap⸣-tu₂-ni | |
| 6 | ina UGU ⸢šal-mu-te a⸣-[sa]-⸢par⸣-šu₂-nu | |
| 7 | u₂-ma-a {lu₂v}⸢NIGIR₂—E₂.GAL {lu₂v}⸢NIGIR₂—E₂.GAL {lu₂v}⸢NIGIR₂—E₂.GAL {lu₂v⸣}IGI.DUB\m | |
| 8 | ina UGU lap-tu₂-te ⸢in⸣-tu₂-nu-u | |
| 9 | i—su-⸢ri⸣ LUGAL EN i-qa-bi | |
| 10 | ma-a a-ta\p-a TA ⸢ŠA₃⸣-[bi] ni-i-pi | |
| 11 | in-ṭi₂-u₂ i-ba-[ši] ⸢ša⸣ IZI | |
| 12 | ta\p-kul-u-ni tu₂-ga-⸢mir⸣-ni | |
| 13 | pa-gar-šu₂\d la-a ne₂-⸢mur⸣-u-ni | |
| 14 | i-ba-ši TA bir-⸢ti⸣ [x x]+⸢x⸣ | |
| 15 | i-ba-ši TA UGU ⸢gir₂⸣-[x] | |
| 16 | ina E₂ ⸢ir⸣-ru-gu-⸢x⸣+[x] | |
| 17 | ID₂ i-ta-[ba-ka] | |
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