ABL 0375 (P334251)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0375 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334251 |
| 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] lo[rd]: 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 [6:7] o 77–o 77 | 2 cavalry mounts, |
| Obverse [7:8] o 88–o 88 | 4 mules: |
| Obverse [8:18] o 99– | 6 in all have come in from Arrapha today. I shall array the horses early in the morning. What is it that the king, my lord, commands? |
| Reverse [1:11] r 22–r 1111 | Will the Melidian horses which will come today before the king, my lord, stay in the Review Palace, or will they leave? The king, my lord, should give the order whether they should leave or whether they should stay. |
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}PA—[MU—AŠ] | |
| 3 | lu DI-mu a-na LUGAL [be-li₂]-⸢ia⸣ | |
| 4 | a—dan-niš a—dan-niš | |
| 5 | {d}AG {d}AMAR.UTU a-na LUGAL | |
| 6 | be-li₂-ia lik-ru-bu | |
| 7 | 02 {anše}KUR.RA-MEŠ ša BAD-HAL-li | |
| 8 | 04 {anše}ku-din-MEŠ | |
| 9 | PAB 06 ša {uru}arrap-ha | |
| 10 | UD-mu an-ni-u₂ | |
| 11 | e-tar-bu-u-ni | |
| 12 | ina kal-la-ma-ri | |
| 13 | {anše}KUR.RA-MEŠ | |
| 14 | a-sa-dir | |
| 15 | mi-i-nu | |
| 16 | ša LUGAL be-li₂ | |
| r | ||
| 1 | i-qab-bu-u-ni | |
| 2 | {anše}KUR.RA-MEŠ | |
| 3 | ša {kur}me-lid-a-a | |
| 4 | ša UD-mu an-ni-u₂ | |
| 5 | ina pa-an LUGAL be-li₂-ia | |
| 6 | e-rab-u₂-ni | |
| 7 | i-za-zu-u₂ | |
| 8 | ina ŠA₃ E₂.GAL—ma-šar-te E₂.GAL—ma-šar-te | |
| 9 | u₂-la-a u₂-ṣu-u₂ | |
| 10 | LUGAL be-li₂ ṭe₃-e-mu | |
| 11 | liš-kun šum-ma u₂-ṣu-u | |
| 12 | šum-ma li-zi-zu | |
Sources & licences
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