ABL 0201 (P334146)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0201 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334146 |
| 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 [0:3] o 1o 1–o 33 | To the king, [my lord]: your servant Nashir-[Bel]. Good health to the king, [my] lord! |
| Obverse [3:7] o 44–o 77 | The king, my lord, told [me] the Itu'ean (prefect) should be exempt, so his bow field is exempt from straw and barley (tax). |
| Obverse [7:11] o 88–o 1111 | (As for) the field of the Assyrians, held in tenancy, I have told (them) [to ...], but they have not a[greed to ...] |
| Reverse [1:5] r 2'2'–r 5'5' | I have been using old straw for the work but have run out of it. May the king, my lord, do as he deems best. |
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\p [EN-ia] | |
| 2 | ARAD-ka\d {1}NIGIN—[EN] | |
| 3 | lu DI-mu ana LUGAL EN-[ia] | |
| 4 | LUGAL\p be-li iq-ṭi₂\p-bi-[a] | |
| 5 | ma\p-a {lu₂v}i-tu\tp-ʾa\p-a.a lu ⸢za⸣-[ku-u] | |
| 6 | A.ŠA₃ {giš}BAN-šu {še}IN.⸢NU⸣ | |
| 7 | {šep}PAD-MEŠ za-ku-u [o] | |
| 8 | A.ŠA₃\p ša\dt aš-šur-a.a [o] | |
| 9 | ša\dt a-na\t a-ri-⸢šu⸣-[te o] | |
| 10 | nu-uk\d [x x x x] | |
| 11 | la\p ⸢i⸣-[ma-gur x x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | ⸢mi⸣-[x x x x x] | |
| 2' | {šep}IN.NU\t la\p-bi-[ru o] | |
| 3' | a-na\t dul₆-li a-ṣa-⸢ba⸣-[ta] | |
| 4' | ug\dp-da\t-me-er ki-⸢i⸣ [o] | |
| 5' | ša\dt LUGAL\pp be-li i-la-[u-ni] | |
| 6' | le-pu\t-uš [o] | |
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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