ABL 0196 (P334141)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0196 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334141 |
| 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 [0:7] o 1o 1–o 77 | To the king, my lord: [your servant Sin]-ahhe-riba. [Good health to] the king, my lord! Assyria is well, the temples are well, all the king's forts are well. The king, my lord, can be glad indeed. |
| Obverse [7:14] o 88–o 1414 | The emissaries of Commagene have come, bringing tribute and with it seven teams of mules. The tribute and the mules are entrusted in the Commagenean embassy, and the emissaries too are there, eating their own bread. |
| Obverse [14:18] o 1515–o 1818 | Should they (the tribute and the mules) be picked up and brought to Babylon, or can they be received here? Let them immediately write me what the king my lord commands. |
| Obverse [18:27] o 1919– | They also brought red wool. The merchants told me that they have selected seven talents from it but that the Commageneans did not agree but said: "Who do you think you are? You are not to make the selection. Let them take it over and let the king's weavers make a selection over there." |
| Reverse [1:3] r 22–r 33 | The king, my lord, should write me to whom they are supposed to give it. |
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}{d}30—PAB-MEŠ\m—SU\t | |
| 3 | ⸢lu⸣ [šul-mu a-na] LUGAL\p EN-ia | |
| 4 | šul-[mu a-na KUR]—aš-šur{ki} | |
| 5 | šul-[mu a-na] E₂.KUR-MEŠ | |
| 6 | šul-mu a-na {uru}bi-rat ša LUGAL gab-bu | |
| 7 | ŠA₃-bu ša LUGAL EN-ia a—dan-niš lu DUG₃.GA | |
| 8 | {lu₂v}MAH-MEŠ-ni {kurt}ku-mu-ha-a.a | |
| 9 | it-tal-ku-ni ma-da-tu₂ na-ṣu-ni | |
| 10 | 07 u₂-ra\t-te ša {anše}ku-din is-se-niš | |
| 11 | na-ṣu-u-ni ma-da-tu₂ TA@v\mp {anše}ku-din | |
| 12 | E₂ {1}{kur}ku-mu-ha-a.a pa-aq-du | |
| 13 | {lu₂v}MAH-MEŠ-ni ina ŠA₃-bi-šu šu-nu | |
| 14 | NINDA-MEŠ ša ra-me-ni-šu₂-nu e-kul | |
| 15 | i-ma-ta-hu-ne₂-e a-na {uru}KA₂.DINGIR.RA | |
| 16 | u₂\pm-ba\t-lu-ni u₂-la-a an-na-ka | |
| 17 | i-ma-ha-ru\d-šu-nu a-ki ša\m LUGAL EN | |
| 18 | i-qa-bu-u-ni ar₂-hiš liš-pa-ru\p-ni | |
| 19 | SIG₂-MEŠ LUM.LUM-MEŠ\p is-se-niš na-ṣu-u-ni | |
| 20 | {lu₂v}DAM.QAR\p-MEŠ iq-ṭi₂-bu-u-ni | |
| 21 | ma-a 07 GU₂.UN TA@v\mp ŠA₃\p-bi ni-ib-ti\t-ar | |
| b.e. | ||
| 22 | ma-a {kur}ku-mu-ha-a.a la im-ma-gur₂ | |
| 23 | ma-a ma-aʾ—at-tu₂-nu ma-aʾ—at-tu₂-nu la ta\pp-bi-ra | |
| 24 | ma-a lu-bi-lu {mi₂}UŠ.BAR-MEŠ-te | |
| r | ||
| 1 | ša LUGAL am-ma-kam-ma li-be₂-⸢e-ru⸣ | |
| 2 | LUGAL EN liš-pu-ra a-na ma-an-ni | |
| 3 | i-da-nu-ši-na-a-ni | |
Sources & licences
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