ABL 0311 (P334199)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0311 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334199 |
| 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 [3:7] o 44–o 77 | As to what the king, my lord, wrote to me: "Why did you set out early without waiting for the governor of Arrapha?" — |
| Obverse [7:12] o 88–o 1212 | for the governor of Arrapha, the road in question is very slow. He sets out from Zaban, and it takes him three days to get there, while I can make a round-trip to Parsua going this way. |
| Obverse [12:17] o 1313–o 1717 | For this very reason I went up to the fort first. Last year, too, I and he [...] accordingly [...] |
| Reverse [0:7] r 1'1'–r 7'7' | [...] Shall I not leave [the h]orses [and free men] in [the fo]rt, but ta[ke] the [horses] and free men with me, go d[own] to Mazamua, and reap the harvest? I am waiting for the king my lord's messenger; what are the king my lord's orders? |
| Reverse [7:15] r 8'8'–r 15'15' | Since the king, my lord, said: "The son of Bel-iddina should go with you," let him go with the troops, and let Nabû-hamatua stay here to do the work of the king, my lord, and repair the forts of the king, my lord. |
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 be-li₂-ia | |
| 2 | ARAD-ka {1}LUGAL—e-mur-an-ni\d | |
| 3 | lu DI-mu\p a-na LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 4 | ša LUGAL EN iš-pur-an-ni | |
| 5 | ma-a a-ta-a ta-ha-ru-pu\tp | |
| 6 | tu-na-me-še ma-a ina IGI {lu₂vy}EN.NAM | |
| 7 | ša {uru}arrap-ha la ta-ad-gul | |
| 8 | a-na {lu₂vy}EN.NAM ša {uru}arrap-ha | |
| 9 | KASKAL am-mi₃-u₂ kar-ma-šu a—dan-niš | |
| 10 | TA@v\m {uru}za-ban u₂-na-ma-aš₂ | |
| 11 | a-na ša₂-al\dt-še ina ŠA₃-bi šu-u | |
| 12 | an-ni-u₂ KASKAL a-na {kur}par-su-a | |
| 13 | al-lak a-la-bi-ia ba\p-si ha-ni-e | |
| 14 | šu-u₂ ah-tu₂-ru-pu a-na {uru}bir-te | |
| 15 | e\d-te-li ina šad-daq₃-⸢diš-ma⸣ | |
| 16 | a-na-ku šu-u₂ pu\p-⸢ut⸣ [ha-ni-e] | |
| 17 | [x x x] ⸢x⸣ i ⸢x⸣+[x x x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [x x x] {⸢anše}KUR⸣.RA-⸢MEŠ⸣ [x x x] | |
| 2' | [ina {uru}HAL].⸢ṢU⸣ la u₂-ra-ma [x x x] | |
| 3' | {lu₂vy}za-ku-u₂ ina ŠU.2-ia a-[ṣa-bat] | |
| 4' | a-na KUR—za-mu-u-a u₂-ra-[da] | |
| 5' | e-ṣa-du e-ṣi-di ina IGI {lu₂vy}A—⸢KIN⸣ {lu₂vy}A—⸢KIN⸣ | |
| 6' | ša LUGAL EN-ia a-da-gal | |
| 7' | mi₃-nu ša LUGAL EN i-qa-bu\p-ni | |
| 8' | ki ma-ṣi-en LUGAL EN i-qi\tm-bu\p-ni | |
| 9' | ma-a DUMU {1}EN—SUM-na i-si-ka | |
| 10' | lil-li-ki šu-u TA@v\m ERIM-MEŠ-⸢ni⸣ | |
| 11' | lil-li-ki {1}{d}PA—ha-mat-u-a | |
| 12' | a-na-ka li-mar-ku dul-lu | |
| 13' | ša LUGAL EN-ia le-pu\p-šu | |
| 14' | bat-qu ša {uru}HAL.ṢU-MEŠ ša LUGAL EN-ia₂ | |
| 15' | lik-ṣu-ru | |
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