ABL 0373 (P334249)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0373 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334249 |
| 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/saa13 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:6] o 1o 1–o 66 | To the king, my lord: your servant Nabû-šumu-iddina. The very best of health to the king, my lord! May Nabû and Marduk bless the king, my lord! |
| Obverse [6:8] o 77–o 88 | 104 Kushite horses from the commander-in-chief; |
| Obverse [8:10] o 99–o 1010 | 72 Kushite horses from the palace herald; |
| Obverse [10:12] o 1111–o 1212 | 69 Kushite horses from the chief cupbearer; |
| Obverse [12:16] o 1313– | 1 Kushite horse from the deputy [...]: |
| Reverse [1:4] r 22–r 44 | [a total of 246 Kushite] horses have come in [to]day. |
| Reverse [4:11] r 55–r 1111 | When are the horses trained to the yoke to come before the king, my lord? Let the king, my lord, send word so I can be alerted and I can have orders issued for the horses to stay overnight and be provisioned. |
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}{d}AG—MU—AŠ | |
| 3 | lu DI-mu a-na LUGAL | |
| 4 | be-li₂-ia a—dan-niš a—dan-niš | |
| 5 | {d}AG {d}AMAR.UTU a-na LUGAL | |
| 6 | be-li₂-ia lik-ru-bu | |
| 7 | 01 me 04 KUR-MEŠ ku-sa-a-a | |
| 8 | ša {lu₂v}tur-tan-ni | |
| 9 | 72 KUR-MEŠ ku-sa-a-a | |
| 10 | ša {lu₂v}NIGIR—E₂.GAL {lu₂v}NIGIR—E₂.GAL | |
| 11 | 69 KUR-MEŠ ku-sa-a-a | |
| 12 | ša {lu₂v}GAL—KAŠ.LUL {lu₂v}GAL—KAŠ.LUL | |
| 13 | 01 KUR ku-sa-a-a | |
| 14 | [ša x x]+⸢x⸣ 02-u | |
| r | ||
| 1 | [x x x x x]+⸢x⸣-u | |
| 2 | [PAB 02 me 46 KUR-MEŠ | |
| 3 | [ku-sa-a]-⸢a⸣ UD-mu | |
| 4 | [an-ni-u] e-tar-bu-ni | |
| 5 | im—ma-at im—ma-at KUR-MEŠ | |
| 6 | ša ni-i-ri ina pa-an LUGAL | |
| 7 | be-li₂-ia er-rab-u-ni | |
| 8 | LUGAL be-li₂ liš-pu-ra | |
| 9 | ba-si lu et-ka-ka | |
| 10 | KUR-MEŠ a-na ba-a-di | |
| 11 | lu-ša₂-aq-bi KUR-MEŠ | |
| 12 | lu-ša₂-aṣ-bi-tu | |
Sources & licences
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