ABL 0304 (P334193)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0304 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334193 |
| 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 [0:1] o 1o 1–o 1o 1 | The king's word to Mannu-ki-Adad: |
| Obverse [1:12] o 22–o 1212 | 1,119 able-bodied men — all together they were 5,000 persons, those of them who have died have died, and those who are alive are alive — were given to the exempts of the Palace and entrusted as charges to your care. So why are you appropriating them, turning some to recruits, others to chariot-men, and others again to cavalrymen, into your own regular troops? |
| Obverse [12:17] o 1313–o 1717 | Have you not said to yourself: "When the time comes for me to summon them, to whose house shall I go for help?" |
| Obverse [17:27] o 1818– | I am writing to you right now: You have sent many of them to the south and to the north or wherever on (various) errands; summon them wherever they are, they must be there before my eunuch arrives. I shall now send my eunuch to make a review of them. |
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-bat LUGAL a-na {1}man-nu—ki—{d}IM | |
| 2 | 01 lim 01 me 19 {lu₂v}ERIM-MEŠ KALAG-MEŠ | |
| 3 | 05 lim šu₂-nu ZI-MEŠ ina UGU a-he-iš | |
| 4 | am—mar me₂-tu\t-u-ni TA@v\m ŠA₃-bi-šu₂-nu | |
| 5 | me₂-e-tu\t u₃ am—mar bal-ṭu-u-ni | |
| 6 | bal-ṭu a-na {lu₂v}zu\t-ku ša E₂.GAL | |
| 7 | ta-ad-nu ki-i pi-qit-ti ina pa-ni-ka | |
| 8 | paq-du at-ta a-ta-a ta-na-aš₂-ši | |
| 9 | an-nu-ti a-na {lu₂v}rak-su\t-ti | |
| 10 | an-nu-ti a-na {lu₂v}A—SIG\d-MEŠ {lu₂v}A—SIG\d-MEŠ | |
| 11 | an-nu-ti a-na {anšed}ša—BAD-HAL-la-ti | |
| 12 | a-na ki-iṣ-ri ša ra-mi-ni-ka | |
| 13 | tu\t-ta-ar-šu₂-nu TA@v\m ŠA₃-bi-ka | |
| 14 | la ta-ad-bu-u₂\m-bu\tm | |
| 15 | ma-a ki-i na-šu-u₂ re-ši-šu₂-nu | |
| 16 | il\t-la-kan-ni ma-a pa-ni-ia | |
| 17 | ina E₂ man-nu a-šak-kan | |
| 18 | u₂-ma-a an-nu-rig | |
| 19 | a-sa-ap-rak-ka | |
| r | ||
| 1 | ma-ʾa-ad TA@v\m ŠA₃-bi-šu₂-nu | |
| 2 | a-na ZAG KAB me-me-e-ni a-na | |
| 3 | ši-pir-ti ta-as\d-sa-par | |
| 4 | be₂-et šu-nu re-es-su\t-nu | |
| 5 | i-ši pa-na-at {lu₂v}SAG-ia | |
| 6 | lu qur-bu an-nu-rig | |
| 7 | {lu₂v}SAG-ia a-šap-pa-ra | |
| 8 | a-šir-ta-šu₂-nu i-šak-kan | |
Sources & licences
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