ABL 0380 (P334256)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0380 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334256 |
| 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 Aššur-reṣuwa. Good health to the king, my lord! |
| Obverse [3:11] o 44–o 1111 | 3,000 foot soldiers, their prefects, and the commanders of the kallāpu troops of Setini, the governor opposite me, have set out towards Muṣaṣir and crossed the Black River. All the pack animals of Setini are with him. |
| Obverse [11:18] o 1212– | The troops of Sunâ, the governor opposite Ukku, have also set out towards Muṣaṣir. |
| Reverse [4:7] r 55–r 77 | I have heard that the king is in Waisi; he will be going but has not yet departed. |
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\p ⸢be⸣-[li₂-ia₂] | |
| 2 | ARAD-ka {1}aš-šur—re-ṣu-u-a | |
| 3 | lu DI-mu\p a-na LUGAL\m be-li₂-ia₂ | |
| 4 | 03 lim {lu₂v}ERIM-MEŠ GIR₃.2-MEŠ | |
| 5 | {lu₂v}GAR-nu-te {lu₂v}GAL—kal-lab-MEŠ {lu₂v}GAL—kal-lab-MEŠ | |
| 6 | ša\dp {1}se-e-ti\t-ni {lu₂v}EN.NAM\p | |
| 7 | ša\p pu\p-tu\tp-u-a a-na {uru}mu-ṣa-ṣir | |
| 8 | u₂-ta\p-me-šu {id₂}MI {id₂}MI | |
| 9 | e-tab-ru\d {anše}a-ṣap-pu\p-šu₂ | |
| 10 | ⸢nam⸣—ma-la ⸢nam⸣—ma-la ša\p {1}se-e-ti\t-ni | |
| 11 | ina pa-ni-šu šu-u₂ | |
| 12 | ša\p {1}su-na-a | |
| 13 | {lu₂v}EN.NAM\p | |
| r | ||
| 1 | ša\p pu\p-ut {kur}u₂\m-ka-a.a | |
| 2 | {lu₂v}ERIM-MEŠ-šu | |
| 3 | u₂-ta-mi-šu-ma | |
| 4 | a-na {uru}mu\p-ṣa-ṣir\p | |
| 5 | a-se-me ma-a LUGAL\m | |
| 6 | ina ŠA₃ {uru}u₂-e-si | |
| 7 | il-lak u₂-di-na | |
| 8 | la u₂-nam\p-maš | |
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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