ABL 0125 (P334073)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0125 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334073 |
| 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 [2:15] o 33– | Stone thresholds and bull colossi are imposed upon me, but the people of the country totally refuse to g[o forth] to my wor[k], saying: "Are we [your] men?" |
| Reverse [0:2] r 1r 1–r 22 | They do not lis[ten to me] — am I [...]? |
| Reverse [2:6] r 33–r 66 | These (people) unanimously and categorically disobey me in every possible way. |
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 | {na₄}I.DIB-MEŠ | |
| 4 | {na₄}{d}ALAD.{d}LAMA | |
| 5 | ina UGU-hi-ia | |
| 6 | ⸢ka⸣-ar₂-ri | |
| 7 | UN-MEŠ KUR | |
| 8 | mi-mi-e-ni | |
| 9 | la im-ma-gur₂ | |
| 10 | a-na\t dul₆-⸢li-ia⸣ | |
| 11 | la u₂-[ṣu-u-ni] | |
| b.e. | ||
| 12 | ma-a ERIM-⸢MEŠ⸣-[ka] | |
| 13 | ⸢a⸣-ni-⸢ni⸣-[e] | |
| r | ||
| 1 | ⸢la⸣ i-šam-[u-ni] | |
| 2 | a-na-ku-u [x x] | |
| 3 | an-nu-⸢te mi₃-i⸣-nu | |
| 4 | ša\dym i-ba-šu-u-ni | |
| 5 | ša\dym la-šu-u-ni | |
| 6 | ki-i a-he-iš | |
| 7 | ⸢la⸣-šu₂ la ⸢i⸣-šam-u-ni | |
Sources & licences
- Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative · CDLI: reuse of catalogue/transliteration data with citation of CDLI; images restricted (not fetched) · Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI), https://cdli.earth/ ; cite CDLI and the P-number
- 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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