ABL 0102 (P334051)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0102 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334051 |
| 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 | Paqaha, the master-builder in charge of the ditch came and had an audience with me, saying: "The king has added to the men working on the ditch but there are no (work) leaders. The governor of Talmusa is not able to direct the men, he said to me as follows: |
| Obverse [13:14] o 1414–o 1414 | '1,000 men [...... |
| Reverse [1:2] r 22–r 22 | ...... we [can]not do the work.'" |
| Reverse [2:11] r 33–r 1111 | Paqaha told me: "I (must) personally take the lead of 100 men and spend a full month on the work. Let the king my lord call the leaders to account for the fact that I (must) spend a full month on the work employing (only) 100 men." |
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⸣-mu a-na LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 4 | {1}⸢pa⸣-qa-ha {lu₂v}TIN | |
| 5 | ša\yd pa-an hi-ri-te | |
| 6 | it-tal-ka ina pa-ni-ia | |
| 7 | i-ti-ti-zi ma-a {lu₂v}ERIM-MEŠ | |
| 8 | ina UGU hi-ri-te LUGAL ur-ta-di\d | |
| 9 | ma-a {lu₂v}ra-di\d-a-ni la-aš₂-šu₂ | |
| 10 | ma-a {lu₂v}EN.NAM ša\yd {uru}tal-mu-sa | |
| 11 | ⸢la⸣ e-mu-qa-šu₂ {lu₂v}ERIM-MEŠ | |
| 12 | [la-a] i-ra-di | |
| 13 | [ki-i an]-⸢ni⸣-e iq\d-ṭi₂-bi-a | |
| 14 | [ma-a x x]+⸢x 01 lim {lu₂v}ERIM-MEŠ | |
| b.e. | ||
| 15 | [x x x x] ⸢pi⸣-qit-tu₂ | |
| 16 | [x x x x x]+⸢x⸣-di | |
| 17 | [x x x x]-ka-ni | |
| r | ||
| 1 | [x x x x]-⸢tu₂⸣-qu | |
| 2 | [du₆]-⸢lu⸣-[ma] ⸢la⸣ ne₂-pa-aš₂ | |
| 3 | {1}pa-qa-ha iq-ṭi₂-bi-a | |
| 4 | ⸢ma⸣-a 01 me {lu₂v}ERIM-MEŠ ina ŠU.2-ia | |
| 5 | a-ṣa-bat ITI\m UD-MEŠ-te | |
| 6 | du₆-lu e-pa-aš₂ | |
| 7 | ma-a pi-ti du₆-lu | |
| 8 | ša\yd ITI\m UD-MEŠ-te | |
| 9 | ina ŠA₃ 01 me {lu₂v}ERIM-MEŠ\m e-pa-šu₂-ni | |
| 10 | ma-a LUGAL EN ina pi-te | |
| 11 | ŠU.2 {lu₂v}ra-di-a-ni | |
| 12 | lu-ba\t-ʾi | |
Sources & licences
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