ABL 0330 (P334213)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0330 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334213 |
| 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 [0:4] o 1o 1–o 44 | [To] the king, [my lord]: your [servant] Ṭab-[ṣill-Ešarra. Good] health to [the king, my lord]! May Aššur and Mullissu bless [the king, my lord]! |
| Obverse [4:10] o 55–o 1010 | As to the boats which the king, my lord, wrote me about: "They must be finished by the beginning of the month! Now all these months have been wasted, are there really no boats?" — |
| Obverse [10:17] o 1111–o 1717 | Did I not write to the king my lord like this: "They will finish three boats by the 1st of Nisan (I), the fourth will be ready by the 1st of Iyyar (II)?" At the moment [x] boats are finished [..... |
| Reverse [1:2] r 2'2'–r 2'2' | six men [......] |
| Reverse [2:3] r 3'3'–r 3'3' | and female [......] |
| Reverse [3:4] r 4'4'–r 4'4' | the other side [......] |
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}DUG₃.⸢GA⸣—[ṣil—E₂.ŠAR₂.RA] | |
| 3 | [lu DI]-mu a-na [LUGAL EN-ia] | |
| 4 | aš-šur {d}NIN.LIL₂ [a-na LUGAL EN-ia] | |
| 5 | lik-ru\dp-bu\t ina UGU {giš}MA₂-[MEŠ] | |
| 6 | ša LUGAL be-li₂ iš-pur-an-ni [o] | |
| 7 | ma-a ina SAG.DU ITI\m u₂-ga-mur [o] | |
| 8 | ma-a u₂-ma-a ITI\m-MEŠ gab-bu | |
| 9 | ug\tdp-da\d-ad-me-ru\d | |
| 10 | ma-a {giš}MA₂-MEŠ la-a-šu-u ši-na | |
| 11 | la-a ki-i an-ni-e a-na LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 12 | aš₂-pu\tp-ra\tp nu-uk\td 03 {giš}MA₂-MEŠ | |
| 13 | ina UD 01-KAM₂ ša {iti}BARAG u₂-ga-mur | |
| 14 | mu-uk\td 04-tu₂ ina UD 01-KAM₂\t ša {itim}⸢GUD⸣ | |
| 15 | u₂-ga-mur u₂-ma-a an-nu-[rig] | |
| 16 | [x] {giš}MA₂-MEŠ ga-mu-⸢ra\tp⸣ | |
| 17 | [x x x x]+⸢x⸣ ab [x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | a-⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x x x x x] | |
| 2' | 06 {⸢lu₂v⸣}ERIM-⸢MEŠ⸣ [x x x x x x x] | |
| 3' | ⸢u₃⸣ {mi₂}⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x x x] | |
| 4' | a-hu-u-la ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x] | |
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
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