ABL 0106 (P334055)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0106 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334055 |
| 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 [3:7] o 44–o 77 | [As to] the work on the ziggurat of Anu concerning which the king, my lord, gave me the following [order]: "Ask the Chief Scribe about it!" — |
| Obverse [7:10] o 88–o 1010 | They have [now] asked him, and [he spoke] as follows: "Why should we do [......] the work [......" |
| Reverse [3:11] r 4'4'– | ......] will go straight away and inspect the work in the Inner City; returning from the Inner City to Calah, he will go to the Chief Scribe, who will send a detailed report to the Palace. |
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 be-[li₂-ia] | |
| 2 | [ARAD]-ka {1}DUG₃—IM—aš-[šur] | |
| 3 | [lu DI]-mu a-na LUGAL [EN]-⸢ia⸣ | |
| 4 | [ina UGU] ⸢du₆⸣-lu ša si-qur-ri-te | |
| 5 | [ša {d}a]-num ša\dm LUGAL be-li₂ | |
| 6 | [ṭe₃-e-mu] iš-ku-na-ni-ni | |
| 7 | [ma a-na {lu₂v]}GAL—A.BA\t {lu₂v]}GAL—A.BA\t ša₂-ʾa-al\d | |
| 8 | [an-nu-rig is]-⸢sa⸣-aʾ-lu-šu₂ ki-i an-ni-i | |
| 9 | [iq-ṭi₂-bi ma-a] a-ta-a a-⸢ni⸣-nu | |
| 10 | [x x x x x] ne₂-pa-aš₂ ⸢ma⸣-[a du₆]-lu | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [x x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣-ia | |
| 2' | [x x x x x x {uru]}⸢kal⸣-ha | |
| 3' | [x x x x x x]-mu | |
| 4' | [x x x e]-⸢ti⸣-iq\d il-lak | |
| 5' | [ina {uru]}⸢ŠA₃⸣—URU du₆-lu e-mar | |
| 6' | [u₃] ⸢TA⸣ {uru}ŠA₃—URU i-sa-hur-an-ni | |
| 7' | [a]-⸢na⸣ {uru}kal-ha ina UGU | |
| 8' | {⸢lu₂v⸣}GAL—A.BA\td {⸢lu₂v⸣}GAL—A.BA\td ⸢il⸣-lak | |
| r.e. | ||
| 9 | [mi]-nu ši-[ti]-⸢ni⸣ | |
| 10 | ⸢ṭe₃⸣-e-mu ina E₂.⸢GAL⸣ | |
| 11 | ⸢u₂⸣-tar | |
Sources & licences
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