ABL 0231 (P334170)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0231 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334170 |
| 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 Aššur-bani. Good health to the king, my lord! |
| Obverse [3:9] o 44–o 99 | Saili who petitioned the [...] tells me: "A son of Sa[dir] has given 1.5 minas of gold to [...]; he has raised [from h]im 50 [..., and ...] to [......]" |
| Obverse [9:11] o 1010–o 1111 | A son of Sadir [......] bits and pieces [...... |
| Reverse [0:2] r 1'1'–r 2'2' | [A son of] Sadir has ra[ised ...] for three years. |
| Reverse [2:6] r 3'3'–r 6'6' | [The son]s of Sadir petitioned the Palace claiming they had weakened (financially), and they say: "We have been authorized by the Palace to raise the iškāru dues from the troops"; |
| Reverse [6:11] r 7'7'–r 11'11' | What Saili is saying is: "In what sense is he weak? Just as I raise the iškāru on my own, so let him too raise it on his own." |
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}aš-šur—[ba]-ni | |
| 3 | lu DI\d-mu a-na ⸢LUGAL⸣ [EN]-⸢ia⸣ | |
| 4 | {1}sa-i₃-li₂ ša a-na [x x] ⸢x⸣+[x] | |
| 5 | i-hu-ur-⸢u₂⸣-[ni] | |
| 6 | ma-a DUMU {1}sa-[dir šu-u] | |
| 7 | 01 1/2 MA.NA KUG.GI a-⸢na⸣ [x x] | |
| 8 | i-ti\t-din ma-a 50 ⸢x⸣+[x TA UGU]-hi-šu₂ | |
| 9 | in-ta-tah a-na {1}[x x x] | |
| 10 | DUMU {1}sa-dir\d [x x x x x] | |
| 11 | hu-ṣa-bu ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x]-bu | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [DUMU {1}⸢sa⸣-dir\d ina bat-⸢x⸣+[x x x x] | |
| 2' | [iš]-⸢QAR⸣ 03 MU.AN.NA-MEŠ ⸢in⸣-[ta-tah] | |
| 3' | [DUMU]-MEŠ {1}sa-dir\d ina E₂.GAL | |
| 4' | i-tah-ru ma-a ne₂-ti\t-ni-ši | |
| 5' | ma-a TA@v\m E₂.GAL iq\d-ṭi-bu-na-ši | |
| 6' | ma-a TA@v\m {lu₂v}ERIM-MEŠ iš-QAR | |
| 7' | mu-tu-ha ša {1}sa-i₃-li₂ | |
| 8' | i-da\d-bu-ub-u-ni ma-a a-ta-a e-ni-ši | |
| 9' | ma-a ki-i ša a-na-ku | |
| 10' | ina ra-me-ni-ia iš-QAR a-ma-tah-u-ni | |
| 11' | ma-a šu-u₂ a-na ra-me-ni-⸢šu⸣ | |
| 12' | li\d-in-tu-hu | |
Sources & licences
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