ABL 0394 (P334269)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0394 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334269 |
| 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 Nadinu. 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 | 111 Kushite, |
| Obverse [7:8] o 88–o 88 | 11 Mesean: |
| Obverse [8:11] o 99–o 1111 | 121 horses trained to the yoke in all from Barhalzi; |
| Obverse [11:13] o 1212–o 1313 | 11 Kushite horses from Arrapha; |
| Obverse [13:14] o 1414–o 1414 | 17 Kushite, |
| Obverse [14:16] o 1515– | 10 Mesean: |
| Reverse [0:3] r 1r 1–r 33 | 27 horses trained to the yoke in all from Calah, incomplete: |
| Reverse [3:7] r 44–r 77 | a total of 139 Kushite and Mesean (horses) — 160 horses trained to the yoke in all — have come in today. |
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}na-di-nu | |
| 3 | lu DI-mu a-na LUGAL be-li₂-ia | |
| 4 | a—dan-niš a—dan-niš | |
| 5 | {d}AG {d}AMAR.UTU | |
| 6 | a-na LUGAL be-li₂-ia lik-ru-bu | |
| 7 | 01 me 11 {kur}ku-sa-a-a | |
| 8 | 11 {kur}me-sa-a-a | |
| 9 | PAB 01 me 21 {anše}KUR.RA-MEŠ | |
| 10 | ša ni-i-ri | |
| 11 | ša {kur}bar-hal-za | |
| 12 | 11 {anše}KUR.RA-MEŠ {kur}ku-sa-a-a | |
| 13 | ša {uru}arrap-ha | |
| 14 | 17 {kur}ku-sa-a-a | |
| 15 | 10 {kur}me-sa-a-a | |
| r | ||
| 1 | PAB 27 {anše}KUR.RA-MEŠ | |
| 2 | ša ni-i-ri ša {uru}kal-ha | |
| 3 | la gam-mar-u-ni | |
| 4 | PAB 01 me 39 {kur}ku-sa-a-a | |
| 5 | {kur}me-sa-a-a | |
| 6 | PAB 01 me 60 {anše}KUR.RA-MEŠ | |
| 7 | ša ni-i-ri UD-mu | |
| 8 | an-ni-u e-tar-bu-ni | |
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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