ABL 0310 (P334198)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0310 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334198 |
| 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 Šarru-emuranni. Good health to the king, my lord! |
| Obverse [3:8] o 44–o 88 | As to what the king, my lord, wrote me: "If horses of such size fall into your hands, get them and send them to me!" — |
| Obverse [8:10] o 99–o 1010 | Kumesaean merchants have reviewed (their stock and) together [...] |
| Reverse [0:1] r 1'1'–r 1'1' | my lord [......]. |
| Reverse [1:17] r 2'2'– | I waited f[or them], but since they did not come to m[e], I sent the servants of the king, my lord, to terrorize Kibatki, and they put people to the sword. After this act of terror on Kibatki, they got afraid and wrote to me, and I imposed a deadline upon them. |
| Right [3:6] r.e. 1717– | If they come and bring [the horses] I shall send them to the king. |
| Edge [1:2] e. 22–e. 22 | I have fetched the king's [...]. |
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 be-li₂-ia | |
| 2 | ARAD-ka {1}LUGAL—IGI.LAL-ni\d | |
| 3 | lu DI\d-mu a-na\t LUGAL be-li₂-ia | |
| 4 | ša\dm LUGAL be-li₂ iš-pur-an-ni | |
| 5 | ma-a šum₂-ma {anšey}KUR.RA-MEŠ | |
| 6 | a-mu-te ša\dm pi-i-te na-me-di | |
| 7 | ina ŠU.2-ka i-tuq-tu-u-ni | |
| 8 | ⸢ma⸣-a i-ṣa še-bi-la-aš₂-šu₂-nu | |
| 9 | {lu₂}DAM.QAR-MEŠ {kur}ku-me-sa-a.a | |
| 10 | i-ta-⸢aš₂-ru⸣ ina ⸢UGU a-he⸣-iš | |
| r | ||
| 1' | be-⸢li₂ x⸣+[x x x x x] | |
| 2' | a-da-gal ina ⸢pa-ni⸣-[šu₂-nu] | |
| 3' | ki ma-ṣi-in ina UGU-hi-⸢ia⸣ | |
| 4' | la-a i-lik-u-ni-ni | |
| 5' | a-sa-par {lu₂v}ARAD-MEŠ-ni | |
| 6' | ša\dy LUGAL be-li₂-ia | |
| 7' | {uru}ki-ba-at-ki | |
| 8' | ig\d-ta-al\dt-du | |
| 9' | UN-MEŠ pi-i GIR₂ AN.BAR | |
| 10' | i-sa-ak-nu | |
| 11' | ki-i {uru}ki-ba-at-ki | |
| 12' | ig-la-du-u-ni | |
| 13' | ip-ta-al-hu | |
| r.e. | ||
| 14 | i-sa-pa-ru-u-ni | |
| 15 | ina UGU-hi-ia e-da-nu | |
| 16 | a-sa-kan-šu₂-nu | |
| 17 | ⸢šum₂⸣-ma i-⸢tal⸣-ku-⸢ni⸣ | |
| e. | ||
| 1 | [x x na]-⸢ṣu⸣-u-ni ina UGU LUGAL u₂-še-bal-šu₂-nu | |
| 2 | [x x x]+⸢x⸣-ki ⸢ša\dm⸣ LUGAL a-ta-ṣa | |
Sources & licences
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