ABL 0173 (P334118)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0173 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334118 |
| 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 [3:6] o 44–o 66 | A cohort commander of the Chief Eunuch delivered me the king's sealed message in the city of Anisu on the 27th. |
| Obverse [6:12] o 77–o 1212 | The messenger of the commander of the fort came to me in Anisu; I asked him about the news, and he told me this: "The city of Birate and the whole land of Habhu are well; everybody is doing his work." |
| Obverse [12:15] o 1313– | All is well; the king, my lord, can be glad. |
| Reverse [0:2] r 1r 1–r 22 | On the 28th I shall be in the city of Ieri. |
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.GA—⸢IM—aš-šur⸣ | |
| 3 | lu DI-mu a-na LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 4 | UD 27-KAM₂ {lu₂}GAL—ki-ṣir {lu₂}GAL—ki-ṣir | |
| 5 | ša\d {lu₂}GAL—SAG {lu₂}GAL—SAG un-qi LUGAL | |
| 6 | ina ŠA₃ {uru}a-ni-su\t ina UGU-hi-ia | |
| 7 | na-ṣa {lu₂}A—KIN {lu₂}A—KIN ša\d GAL—⸢bir-te⸣ GAL—⸢bir-te⸣ | |
| 8 | ina ŠA₃ {uru}a-ni-su ina UGU-hi-ia | |
| 9 | it-tal-ka a-na UGU ṭe₃-e-me a-sa-al-šu₂ | |
| 10 | ma-a DI-mu a-na {uru}bir-a-te | |
| 11 | ma-a {kur}hab-hu gab-bu ia-mu-tu | |
| 12 | du₆-lu-šu₂ e-pa-aš₂ | |
| 13 | DI-mu a—dan-niš | |
| 14 | lib-bu\tp ša\d LUGAL EN-ia lu DUG₃.GA | |
| r | ||
| 1 | UD 28-KAM₂ ina {uru}ie-ri | |
| 2 | a-na\t-ku | |
Sources & licences
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