ABL 0382 & 0383 (P334258)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0382 & 0383 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334258 |
| 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/saa15 · 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 deputy (governor), my lord: your servant Aššur-reṣiwa. Good health to my lord! |
| Obverse [3:16] o 44– | Why is my lord silent (while) I wag my tail and run about like a dog? I have sent three letters to my lord. Why does my lord not consent to send an answer to (my) letter? Let my lord return me to my office. As much as I served your father, so let me now serve you! |
| Reverse [0:2] r 1r 1–r 22 | Even if my ... ..., may my lord do this! |
| Reverse [2:5] r 33–r 55 | Now then I have written to my lord. Let my lord quickly send an answer to (my) letter! |
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 {lu₂}02-e EN-ia | |
| 2 | ARAD\p-ka {1}aš-šur—re-ṣi-u-a | |
| 3 | lu-u DI-mu ina EN-ia₂ | |
| 4 | a-ta\p-a be-li₂ qa-la | |
| 5 | ana-ku a-ki UR.KU | |
| 6 | a-sa-bu a-du-al-la | |
| 7 | 03 e-gir₂-a-ti\t ina UGU EN-ia₂ | |
| 8 | a-sa-par a-ta\p-a be-li₂ | |
| 9 | la i-ma-gur₂ gab-ru-u | |
| 10 | ša\dm e-gir₂-te la u-še-ba-la | |
| 11 | ina UGU pi-qi-te-ia | |
| 12 | be-li₂ lu-sa-hi-ra-ni | |
| 13 | DUMU ša\dm a-na AD-ka | |
| 14 | al-sa-mu-ni a-na ka-ša₂ | |
| 15 | u₂-ma-a la-al-su-mu | |
| r | ||
| 1 | a-ha-am-ma lu ma-me-ni | |
| 2 | be-li₂ a-ni-tu₂ le-pu-šu₂ | |
| 3 | u₂-ma-a an-nu-rig | |
| 4 | ina EN-ia₂ a-sa-par be-li₂ | |
| 5 | gab-ru-u ša\dm e-gir₂-te | |
| 6 | ar₂-hiš lu-še-bil₂ | |
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)
- electronic Babylonian Library (eBL), LMU Munich · MIT (eBL Zenodo dataset); platform terms unverified · electronic Babylonian Library (eBL), LMU Munich, https://www.ebl.lmu.de/ ; Zenodo dataset (MIT)
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