ABL 0100 (P334049)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0100 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334049 |
| 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 [0:3] o 1o 1–o 33 | To the king, my lord: your servant Ṭab-šar-Aššur. Good health to the king, my lord! |
| Obverse [3:13] o 44–o 1313 | As to what I wrote to the Palace: "Let them [...] the rivers, get together and do the crossing at ... the c[am]p," — Arbailai the 'third man' came to me today, reporting: "The river is [floodin]g, I was not able to pass [...] to the [other] side." |
| Obverse [13:19] o 1414– | That is exactly why I wrote to the Palace. Let them now do the crossing at that very place outside the ca[mp]. |
| Reverse [0:9] r 1r 1–r 99 | And here — (when) they come [......], half of the [......] ... here; I went by a cart and had a look; it's excellent, and Arbailai showed much room for the camp. |
| Reverse [9:15] r 1010–r 1515 | Tomorrow, as the king my lord said, they should set to it and bring the camp over; perhaps we can finish the bridge by the time they are through with the camp, so the king can cross over on the bridge. |
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-ia | |
| 2 | ARAD-ka {1}DUG₃—IM—aš-šur | |
| 3 | lu DI\d-mu a-na LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 4 | ša\t ina E₂.GAL aš₂-pur-an-ni | |
| 5 | nu-uk ID₂-MEŠ lu-⸢x⸣+[x]-⸢ru⸣ | |
| 6 | li\d-ki-ri-ku ina ⸢x ma-dak⸣-te | |
| 7 | ne₂-bu\p-ru le\d-⸢pu\p⸣-[šu] | |
| 8 | u₂-ma-a {1}arba-il₃-[a.a] | |
| 9 | {lu₂v}03.U₅ it-[tal-ka] | |
| 10 | ma-a ID₂ ina [me-li]-⸢šu₂⸣ | |
| 11 | ⸢i⸣-ba-ši a-[x x x]-⸢i⸣ | |
| 12 | a-na-ku ina bat-⸢ti⸣ [am-mi]-⸢ti⸣ | |
| 13 | la e-ti\t-iq [la al-lik] | |
| 14 | ina UGU-hi šu₂-u ina ⸢E₂.GAL⸣ | |
| 15 | a-sa-par u₂-ma-a | |
| 16 | am-ma-ka-ma [ne₂-bu]-⸢ru⸣ | |
| 17 | qa\d-ni ⸢ma-dak⸣-[ti] | |
| 18 | le-⸢pu-šu₂⸣ | |
| r | ||
| 1 | u₃\d an-na-[ka o] | |
| 2 | il-⸢lak⸣-u-ni [x x x x]+⸢x⸣ | |
| 3 | meš-li\d ⸢x⸣+[x x] ⸢ki x x⸣ | |
| 4 | an-na-ka ⸢mu⸣ su\t ⸢x x x⸣ | |
| 5 | {giš}qir\p-si at-ta-lak | |
| 6 | a-ta-mar SIG₅ a—dan-niš | |
| 7 | u₃ a-na ma-dak-ti\t | |
| 8 | ⸢ka⸣-qu-ru ma-⸢aʾ⸣-da\d | |
| 9 | {1}arba-il₃-a.a uk-tal-lim\d | |
| 10 | i—ši\d-a-ri i—ši\d-a-ri ki-i ša LUGAL be-li₂ | |
| 11 | iq\d-bu\p-ni\d A₂.2-šu₂-nu lu-me-du | |
| 12 | ma-dak-tu₂ ⸢lu⸣-še-bi-ru | |
| 13 | a-di\d ma-dak-tu₂-⸢ma⸣ ug-da\d-da\d-mar-u-⸢ni⸣ | |
| 14 | i—su\t-ri gi-iš-ru | |
| 15 | nu-ga-mar LUGAL ina UGU | |
| 16 | gi-iš-ru e-bir | |
Sources & licences
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