ABL 0396 (P334271)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0396 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334271 |
| 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/saa01 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:5] o 1o 1–o 55 | To the king, my lord: your servant Ṭab-ṣill-Ešarra. Good health to the king, my lord! May Aššur and Mullissu bless the king, my lord! |
| Obverse [5:16] o 66– | Haldi-naṣir, the mercenary who took the letter to the Biratean, has come back carrying a letter; [I am sending him] right now [to] the king, my lord. |
| Reverse [0:7] r 1r 1–r 77 | [I asked him]: "Why were you delayed?" He said: "He detained me for 12 days; Marduk-šumu-iddina will be coming right after me." |
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\t LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 2 | ARAD-ka {1}DUG₃.GA—ṣil\m—E₂.ŠAR₂.RA | |
| 3 | lu DI-mu a-na\t LUGAL EN-ia₂ | |
| 4 | aš-šur {d}NIN.LIL₂ a-na\t LUGAL | |
| 5 | EN-ia lik-ru-bu\t | |
| 6 | {1}hal-di—PAB {lu₂v}rak-su | |
| 7 | ša e-gir₂-tu₂ | |
| 8 | ina UGU {kur}bi-ra-ta-a.a | |
| 9 | u₂-bi-lu-ni | |
| 10 | i-tal-ka e-gir₂-tu₂ na-ṣa | |
| 11 | an-⸢nu⸣-rig | |
| 12 | [ina pa-an] LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 13 | [a-sap-ra-aš₂-šu₂] | |
| b.e. | ||
| 14 | [a-sa-ʾa-al-šu₂] | |
| r | ||
| 1 | [mu-uk] a-ta-a | |
| 2 | tu₂-ki-iš | |
| 3 | ma-a 12 UD-MEŠ | |
| 4 | ik-ta-al-a-ni | |
| 5 | ma-a {1}{d}MES—MU—SUM-na | |
| 6 | an-nu-rig\t | |
| 7 | i—da-a-tu₂-u-a i—da-a-tu₂-u-a i—da-a-tu₂-u-a | |
| 8 | il-la-ka | |
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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