ABL 0094 (P334043)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0094 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334043 |
| 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 | The king, my lord, wrote to me: "Set out on the 22nd and be in the Inner City on the 29th!" — before I go to the Inner City, let me come and see the king, my lord! |
| Obverse [12:20] o 1313– | And as to the reserves of the king's men of the Ruqahu and Hallatu tribes about which the king my lord wrote to me, I sent (orders about them) on the very day I saw the (king's) letter. |
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 | |
| 5 | EN-ia lik-ru-bu | |
| 6 | LUGAL be-li\t i-sa-ap-ra\t | |
| 7 | ma-a UD 22-KAM₂ na\t-me-ši | |
| 8 | ma-a UD 29-KAM₂ ina {uru}⸢ŠA₃—URU⸣ | |
| 9 | lu-u at-ta [o] | |
| 10 | a-du i-na {uru}ŠA₃—⸢URU⸣ | |
| 11 | la al-lak-u-ni | |
| 12 | la-li\t-ka LUGAL be-li\t | |
| 13 | la-mur u₃ ina UGU | |
| 14 | ša ku-tal ERIM—MAN ERIM—MAN ERIM—MAN | |
| r | ||
| 1 | ša {kur}ru\p-qa-ha-a-a | |
| 2 | ša {kur}hal-lat-a-a | |
| 3 | ša LUGAL EN iš-pur-a-ni | |
| 4 | UD-mu ša₂ e-gir₂-tu₂ | |
| 5 | a-mur-u-ni a-sap-[ra] | |
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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