ABL 0121 + (P334069)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0121 + |
|---|---|
| ID | P334069 |
| 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/saa05 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:2] o 1o 1–o 22 | To the king, my lord: your servant Gabbu-ana-Aššur. |
| Obverse [2:14] o 33–o 1414 | As to the people of Arzâ about whom the king, my lord, wrote me: "I have given you the people entered on the writing-board, the cohort which I formed; these are at your disposal. However, give Arzâ the rest of the people whose (names) I [did n]ot write in the writing-board" — |
| Obverse [14:24] o 1515– | There are no people not on the writing-board at my disposal! In fact, from [the peop]le in the writing-[board whom] the king, my lord, gave me, [x] are at his disposal! |
| Reverse [2:6] r 33–r 66 | When the king's messenger c[ame] with me to Kurba[il] |
| Reverse [9:13] r 1010–r 1313 | After this, (others) disappeared from the temple and came to me. |
| Reverse [13:21] r 1414– | Why does the king, my lord, pay attention to groundless allegations? Only those people whom the king, my lord, organized and gave me are in my service. [[There are no people not on the writing-board (in my service)]]. |
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}gab-bu—ana—aš-šur | |
| 3 | UGU UN-MEŠ ša\dm {1}ar-za-a.a | |
| 4 | ša\dm LUGAL EN iš-pur-a-ni | |
| 5 | ma-a UN-MEŠ ša\m ina {giš}le-ʾi | |
| 6 | šak-nu-u-ni ma-a ki-ṣir | |
| 7 | ša\dm ak-ṣur\p-u-ni a-di-na-kan-ni | |
| 8 | ma-a ha-nu-u-te lu ina pa-ni-ka | |
| 9 | u₃ ma-a UN-MEŠ\p | |
| 10 | ut-ru\d-u-ti | |
| 11 | ⸢ša⸣ ina {giš}le-ʾi | |
| 12 | ⸢la⸣ aš₂-ṭa\d-ru\d-u-ni | |
| 13 | [ma]-⸢a⸣ a-na\t {1}ar-za-⸢a⸣.[a] | |
| 14 | di-ni [o] | |
| 15 | UN-MEŠ-ma ša\dm la\d-a [o] | |
| 16 | {giš}le\d-ʾi [o] | |
| 17 | ⸢la⸣-aš₂-šu ina pa-ni\d-⸢ia⸣ | |
| 18 | ⸢ke⸣-e-tu₂ TA@v\m ŠA₃-bi | |
| b.e. | ||
| 19 | [UN]-⸢MEŠ⸣ ša\dm {giš}le\d-⸢ʾi⸣ | |
| 20 | [ša] ⸢LUGAL⸣ EN [o] | |
| r | ||
| 1 | [i]-⸢di⸣-na\t-an-ni [o] | |
| 2 | [x x] ina pa-ni-⸢šu₂⸣ [o] | |
| 3 | a-ki\p {lu₂vy}A—šip-ri {lu₂vy}A—šip-ri [o] | |
| 4 | ša\dm LUGAL i-si-⸢ia⸣ | |
| 5 | a-na {⸢uru}kur-ba\t⸣-[il₃] | |
| 6 | i-[li-ku-ni] | |
| 7 | [x x x x x] | |
| 8 | [x x x x x] | |
| 9 | ⸢ma⸣ [x x]+⸢x x⸣+[x x] | |
| 10 | ⸢de-et⸣ ha-ni-⸢e⸣ [o] | |
| 11 | u₂-hur TA@v\m a.a-⸢ki⸣ | |
| 12 | ih-tal-qu-u-ni [o] | |
| 13 | i-na UGU-hi-ia i-tal-⸢ku-ni⸣ | |
| 14 | a-na\t mi-ni di-ib-bi | |
| 15 | la-aš₂-la-mu-te la-aš₂-la-mu-te LUGAL EN | |
| 16 | i-sa-na-me UN-MEŠ | |
| 17 | a—mar ša\m LUGAL EN | |
| 18 | ik-ṣur-u-ni i-di-na\t-ni | |
| 19 | ha-nu-te ina pa-ni-ia | |
| r.e. | ||
| 20 | <$UN-MEŠ ša la {giš}le-ʾi$> | |
| 21 | <$la-aš₂-šu₂$> | |
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