ABL 0207 (P334151)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
Open in the reader & map →See it among all tablets
| Designation | ABL 0207 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334151 |
| 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 [0:4] o 1o 1–o 44 | To the king, my lord: your servant Aššur-balti-niši. Good health to the king, my lord! |
| Obverse [4:7] o 55–o 77 | As to the captives about whom the king, my lord, wrote me, I have brought them (there). |
| Obverse [7:11] o 88–o 1111 | I and the deputy (governor) have entered them from Tahal as far as Kar-Šamaš, and appointed (them). |
| Obverse [11:12] o 1212–o 1212 | I have given out [provisions] for a whole month, [by the sea]h of 8 litres, and half a cup of salt and cress. Everything is fine. |
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}aš-šur—TEŠ₂—UN-MEŠ | |
| 3 | lu DI-mu a-na\t LUGAL | |
| 4 | be-li₂-ia | |
| 5 | TA@v\m <UGU> {lu₂v}hu-ub\d-te | |
| 6 | ša\dm LUGAL be-li₂ | |
| 7 | iš-pur-an-ni | |
| 8 | at-tu-bil₂\t ana-ku | |
| 9 | {lu₂v}02-u₂ TA@v\m {uru}tah-URU | |
| 10 | a-du {uru}kar—{d}UTU | |
| 11 | ⸢nu⸣-se-rib nu-up-ta-qid | |
| 12 | {[še}PAD-MEŠ] ša\d ITI\m UD-MEŠ | |
| r | ||
| 1 | [o] ina ša 08 qa 1/2 qa-at | |
| 2 | MUN\t {še}ku-dim\t-me | |
| 3 | at-ti\t-din DI-mu | |
| 4 | a—dan-niš | |
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)
Cite the original edition and translator. Page generated by Unread Atlas from the public corpus export of 2026-10-11.