ABL 0107 (P334056)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0107 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334056 |
| 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 [3:5] o 44–o 55 | As to what the king, my lord, wrote to me: "Why are the names of the city lords of the cities not built high?" |
| Obverse [5:11] o 66–o 1111 | The king, my lord, knows that our previous campaign which we directed to Mannea (and) Media [... is depicted] o[n the walls of] the Ol[d] Palace. We have in[spected ......] |
| Reverse [1:2] r 2'2'–r 2'2' | [the na]mes of the kings and [...] officials |
| Reverse [2:3] r 3'3'–r 3'3' | [di]adems in fr[ont of ...] |
| Reverse [3:4] r 4'4'–r 4'4' | their [na]mes [are compl]eted |
| Reverse [4:10] r 5'5'–r 10'10' | we [......] from [...]huha to Dur-Šarruken. This [...] has been made ...... |
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\d-mu a-na LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 4 | ša\td LUGAL be-li₂ iš-pur-an-ni ma-a | |
| 5 | MU-MEŠ ša\td {lu₂v}EN—URU-MEŠ {lu₂v}EN—URU-MEŠ ša\td URU-MEŠ\y | |
| 6 | a-ta-a la za-qu-ru LUGAL be-li₂ | |
| 7 | u₂-da hu-li-ni ⸢pa⸣-ni-u₂ | |
| 8 | ša\td a-na {kur}man-na-⸢a.a⸣ a-na mad-a.a | |
| 9 | ⸢ni⸣-il\y-lik-u-ni ⸢ina⸣ [E₂.SIG₄-MEŠ] | |
| 10 | [ša] E₂.GAL la-bir-[te x x x x] | |
| 11 | [x x] ne₂-e-ta-⸢x⸣+[x x x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [x x]+⸢x lu {lu₂}UŠ-x⸣+[x x x x] | |
| 2' | ⸢MU⸣-MEŠ LUGAL-MEŠ\m {lu₂}⸢x⸣+[x x x x] | |
| 3' | ⸢pi⸣-tu-a-te ina ⸢IGI⸣ [x x x x] | |
| 4' | ⸢MU⸣-MEŠ-šu₂-nu ⸢ga-mu-ru⸣ | |
| 5' | [x x]+⸢x⸣ a-ni-⸢ni⸣ TA@v ŠA₃ | |
| 6' | [x x x]+⸢x⸣-hu-⸢ha⸣ a-na {uru}BAD₃—MAN—GIN | |
| 7' | [x x x x x] an-ni-tu ep-ša\dm-at | |
| 8' | [x x x x x]+⸢x⸣-pa-hu-ni | |
| 9' | [x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ i-ṣa-bat-su | |
| 10' | [x x x x x]+⸢x⸣-at | |
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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