ABL 0317 (P334205)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0317 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334205 |
| 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] lo[rd]: your servant Šarru-emur[anni]. Good health to the king, [my lord]! |
| Obverse [3:11] o 44–o 1111 | I am not the son of the city lord of [Qunbuna]; I am a house-born slav[e], a servant of the king, my lord! The king, my lord, appointed me in Qunbuna; I tell everything that I see and hear to the king, my lord, I do not conceal anything from the king, my lord. |
| Obverse [11:23] o 1212– | As to the king [my lord]'s subjects who came to Ar[zizi] from Carchemish, about whom I wrote to the Palace, I have now had them arrested and am herewith handing them over to the king, my lord. From this act, it should be understood in the Palace that I speak earnestly with the king. |
| Reverse [1:4] r 22–r 44 | Now, Dadâ the Arzizean (has said to me): "Why have you slandered me in the Palace?" |
| Reverse [4:11] r 55–r 1111 | Dadâ does not have a lawsuit against me; [there is noth]ing belonging to him in [my] possession. [He has] now [gone] to the Palace in order to [litigate] against me; let the king, my lord, investigate whether there is anything belonging to him in [my] possession. |
| Reverse [11:15] r 1212–r 1515 | His messengers constantly g[o back] and forth to the city [...] early in the morning; |
| Reverse [15:16] r 1616–r 1616 | [......] of the people of my country [......] |
| Reverse [16:17] r 1717–r 1717 | the people of my country [......]. |
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⸣-[ia] | |
| 2 | ARAD-ka {1}LUGAL—IGI.LAL-[an-ni] | |
| 3 | lu-u DI-mu a-na LUGAL [EN-ia] | |
| 4 | la-a DUMU {lu₂vy}EN—URU {lu₂vy}EN—URU ⸢ša {uru⸣}[x x] | |
| 5 | a-na-ku {lu₂vy}un-za-ar-⸢hu⸣ | |
| 6 | {lu₂vy}ARAD ša\dm LUGAL EN-ia a-na-ku | |
| 7 | LUGAL be-li ina {uru}qu-un-bu-na | |
| 8 | ip-taq-da-ni mi-i-nu | |
| 9 | ša\dym a-ma-ru-ni ša\dm a-šam-mu-ni | |
| 10 | ina pa-an LUGAL EN-ia a-qab-bi | |
| 11 | me-me-ni TA IGI LUGAL la\dp u₂-⸢ba-zar⸣ | |
| 12 | ina UGU {lu₂vy}ARAD-MEŠ-ni ⸢ša LUGAL⸣ [EN-ia] | |
| 13 | ša\dm TA {uru}gar-ga-mis ina {uru}ar-[zi-zi] | |
| 14 | il-li-ku-ni-ni | |
| 15 | ša\dm ina E₂.GAL ina UGU-hi-šu₂-⸢nu⸣ | |
| 16 | aš₂-pu-ra-ni u₂-ma-a an-nu-rig | |
| 17 | u₂-sa-aṣ-bit a-na LUGAL EN-ia | |
| b.e. | ||
| 18 | a-ti-din ina ŠA₃-bi an-ni-e | |
| 19 | ina E₂.⸢GAL⸣ li-ih-⸢hi⸣-[kim] | |
| 20 | ki-i ši-a-hu | |
| r | ||
| 1 | TA LUGAL a-da-bu-bu-ni | |
| 2 | u₂-ma-a {1}da\d-da\d-a | |
| 3 | {lu₂vy}ar-zi-za-a.a | |
| 4 | ma-⸢a a-ta-a kar⸣-ṣi-ia | |
| 5 | ina E₂.GAL ta-kul {1}da-da-a | |
| 6 | la-a EN—de\d-ni-⸢ia EN—de\d-ni-⸢ia šu-u₂⸣ | |
| 7 | me-⸢me⸣-ni-šu₂ ina pa-⸢ni⸣-[ia la-aš₂]-šu₂ | |
| 8 | u₂-ma-a ina E₂.GAL ⸢a-na⸣ [x x] | |
| 9 | ina UGU-hi-ia ⸢i⸣-[x x x] | |
| 10 | LUGAL be-li liš-ʾa-⸢al⸣ [o] | |
| 11 | ⸢šum⸣-ma me-me-ni-šu₂ ina ⸢pa-ni⸣-[ia] | |
| 12 | i-ba-ši {lu₂vy}A—KIN-MEŠ-⸢šu₂⸣ {lu₂vy}A—KIN-MEŠ-⸢šu₂⸣ | |
| 13 | ka-a.a-ma-nu ina {uru}⸢x⸣+[x x]+⸢x⸣ | |
| 14 | ina ka-la-ma-ri ⸢il⸣-[lu-ku] | |
| 15 | il-la-ku-ni ⸢UD x⸣+[x x x x] | |
| 16 | ša UN-MEŠ KUR-ia ⸢x⸣+[x x x x] | |
| 17 | UN-MEŠ KUR-ia [x x x x x] | |
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