ABL 0097 (P334046)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0097 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334046 |
| 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 [5:8] o 66–o 88 | As to what the king, my lord, wrote to me: "Suppose you are staying at home, how do you feed (your horses)?" |
| Obverse [8:15] o 99–o 1515 | Half of my horses are fed in the Barhalza province, the other half eat at the [... of the ci]ty of Issete in the domestic quarters of [...]; my cavalry [and ... are sta]tioned in the tax-collection center of the province of [...]. Their [...... |
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 | lu DI-mu a-na\t LUGAL EN-[ia] | |
| 4 | aš-šur {d}NIN.LIL₂ a-na\t LUGAL | |
| 5 | EN-ia lik-ru-bu | |
| 6 | ša LUGAL EN ⸢iš⸣-pur-an-ni | |
| 7 | ma-a i—su-ri ina E₂-ka-ma | |
| 8 | kam-mu-sa-ka ma-a mi₃-nu tu₂-ša₂-kal | |
| 9 | meš-li {anšed}KUR.RA-MEŠ-⸢ia⸣ | |
| 10 | ina {kur}bar-hal-⸢zi e-ku⸣-lu | |
| 11 | meš-lu-ma ⸢ina⸣ [x x x] {⸢uru⸣}01-te | |
| 12 | [ina] E₂—02-⸢i⸣ E₂—02-⸢i⸣ E₂—02-⸢i⸣ [x x x] e-ku-lu | |
| 13 | {⸢anše⸣}BAD-HAL-⸢li⸣ [x x]-MEŠ-ni | |
| 14 | [ina] ⸢pi⸣-ri {kur}[x x] ⸢kar⸣-ru\d | |
| 15 | [x x]-⸢šu₂⸣-nu [x x x x]+⸢x⸣-qa-na | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [x x x x x]+⸢x x⸣+[x] | |
| 2' | [x x x x x] ⸢LUGAL⸣ EN-⸢ia₂⸣ | |
| 3' | [x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ | |
| 4' | [x x x x x x x]-⸢bi⸣ | |
| 5' | [x x x x x x x] ⸢ma⸣ | |
| 6' | [x x x x x x liš]-pur | |
| 7' | [x x x x x x x]-ha | |
| 8' | [x x x x x x x] ⸢a⸣ | |
| 9' | [x x x x x x x]-u₂-la | |
| 10' | [x x x x x x x]-⸢ni⸣ | |
| 11' | [x x x x x x x]-ni | |
| 12' | [x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ | |
Sources & licences
- Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative · CDLI: reuse of catalogue/transliteration data with citation of CDLI; images restricted (not fetched) · Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI), https://cdli.earth/ ; cite CDLI and the P-number
- 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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