ABL 0315 (P334203)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0315 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334203 |
| 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/saa15 · 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 Šarru-emuranni. Good health to the king, my lord! The fort is well. |
| Obverse [4:18] o 55– | Concerning the horses about which the king, my lord, wrote to me: "They should go to Qudanati" — I have equipped ten lone horses and sent a cohort commander with them. There are many Babylonians and Borsippans who pass there; should they take hold of them? As the king, my lord, commands. |
| Reverse [0:8] r 1r 1–r 88 | As to the rec[ruitment officers] about whom the king, my lord, wr[ote to me]: "Why have they left their w[ork] and r[un away]?" — they have certainly not run a[way]. When the king, my lord, set out, the [...s] received them and re[lea]sed them. |
| Reverse [8:10] r 99–r 1010 | Now that the king my lord is staying overnight here, they will come and comp[lete] (their work). |
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-ia₂ | |
| 2 | ARAD-ka {1}LUGAL—IGI.LAL-an-ni | |
| 3 | lu DI-mu a-na\t LUGAL EN-ia₂ | |
| 4 | DI-mu a-na\t {uru}HAL.ṢU | |
| 5 | ina UGU {anšed}KUR.RA-MEŠ | |
| 6 | ša\d LUGAL be-li₂ iš-pur-ni | |
| 7 | ma-a ina {uru}qu-da\d-na\t-ti\t | |
| 8 | lil-li-ku 10 {anšed}e-da\d-nu-ti | |
| 9 | u₂\m-sa-aṣ\td-bit | |
| 10 | {lu₂v}GAL—ki-ṣir {lu₂v}GAL—ki-ṣir i-si-šu₂-nu | |
| 11 | a-sap-ra ma-ʾa-⸢da⸣ | |
| 12 | {lu₂v}DUMU—KA₂.DINGIR{ki} {lu₂v}DUMU—KA₂.DINGIR{ki} | |
| 13 | lu-u {lu₂v}DUMU—BAR₂.SIPA{ki} {lu₂v}DUMU—BAR₂.SIPA{ki} | |
| 14 | ša\d ina ŠA₃-bi e-ti\t-qu-[ni] | |
| 15 | li\t-iṣ-bat-u-ne₂-e [o] | |
| 16 | a-ki ša\d LUGAL be-li₂ [o] | |
| 17 | i-qa-bu-u-ni [o] | |
| r | ||
| 1 | ina UGU {lu₂v}mu-[šar-kis-MEŠ] | |
| 2 | ša\d LUGAL be-li₂ ⸢iš⸣-[pur-an-ni] | |
| 3 | ma-a a-ta-a ⸢dul⸣-[la-šu₂-nu] | |
| 4 | u₂\m-ra-me-u ih-[li-qu] | |
| 5 | la-aš₂-šu₂ la ih-⸢li⸣-[qu] | |
| 6 | a-ki LUGAL be-li₂ [o] | |
| 7 | u₂\m-nam-miš-u-ni {⸢lu₂v⸣}[x x] | |
| 8 | it-tah-ru-šu₂-nu ur-⸢ta⸣-[me]-u-⸢šu₂-nu⸣ | |
| 9 | u₂\m-ma-a LUGAL be-li₂ [o] | |
| 10 | an-na\t-ka be₂-e-⸢de⸣ | |
| 11 | il-la-ku-nu u₂\m-ša₂-⸢lu⸣-[mu] | |
Sources & licences
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