ABL 0322 (P334209)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0322 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334209 |
| 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 [0:3] o 1o 1–o 33 | To the king, my lord: your servant Adad-ibni. [Good health] to the king, my lord. |
| Obverse [3:7] o 44–o 77 | [As to] the eunuchs [of] the household of Aššur-ilai [about whom the king] wrote to me: "[Let them br]ing them here!" — |
| Obverse [7:17] o 88– | I have just sent to the palace with a kallapu messenger [a total of four] eunuchs: [Urda]-Issar, a cupbearer; Ṣilli-Šamaš, a confectioner; Bel-deni-amur, a cook; and [P]atamû, a eunuch. |
| Reverse [4:6] r 55–r 66 | Let the king my lord question them. They are subjects of the city of Til-Barsip. |
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 EN-ia | |
| 2 | ARAD-⸢ka⸣ {1}{⸢d⸣}IM—ib-ni | |
| 3 | [lu DI-mu] a-na\y LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 4 | [ina UGU] {lu₂vy}SAG-MEŠ-ni | |
| 5 | [ša] ⸢E₂⸣ {1}aš-šur—DINGIR-a.a | |
| 6 | [ša LUGAL] iš-pur-a-ni | |
| 7 | [ma-a lu-bi]-lu-na\y-šu-nu | |
| 8 | {1}ARAD]—{⸢d⸣}15 {lu₂vy}KAŠ.LUL | |
| 9 | {1}GIŠ.MI—{d}UTU {lu₂vy}kar-ka-din | |
| 10 | {1}EN—de\d-ni—a-mur {lu₂vy}MU | |
| 11 | {1}⸢pa⸣-ta-mu-u {lu₂vy}SAG | |
| 12 | [PAB 04 {lu₂vy}SAG-MEŠ-ni | |
| r | ||
| 1 | ⸢an-nu⸣-rig ina ŠU.2 | |
| 2 | {lu₂vy}kal-lap—ši-bir-⸢tu₂⸣ {lu₂vy}kal-lap—ši-bir-⸢tu₂⸣ | |
| 3 | ina E₂.GAL | |
| 4 | u₂\m-se-bi-la-šu₂-nu | |
| 5 | LUGAL EN ⸢liš⸣-al-šu₂-nu | |
| 6 | {lu₂vy}ARAD-MEŠ\m-ni | |
| 7 | ša\m {uru}DUL—bur-si-bi šu-nu | |
Sources & licences
- Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative · CDLI: reuse of catalogue/transliteration data with citation of CDLI; images restricted (not fetched) · Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI), https://cdli.earth/ ; cite CDLI and the P-number
- 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) · ORACC project editions, https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ ; cite the individual project (see texts.extra_json.project)
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