ABL 0414 (P334284)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0414 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334284 |
| 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 [0:3] o 1o 1–o 33 | To the king, my lord: your servant Bel-liqbi. Good health to the king, my lord! |
| Obverse [3:16] o 44–o 1616 | The town of Hēsa, a road station of mine, lacks people; the postmaster and the commander of the recruits are there alone and cannot attend to it (properly). Now, let me get together 30 families and place them there. There are men of Nabû-ṣalla the prefect living in Hēsa, a cohort of craftsmen; let him move them out, settle them in the town of Argite, and give them fields and gardens. |
| Obverse [16:29] o 1717– | If it is acceptable to the king, my lord, let them send a letter to Nabû-uṣalla the prefect, and let me appoint Ia'iru the deputy as village manager there, and Sin-iddina, the major-domo of Adda-hati in Sazanâ, so they will attend to these road stations and fear the king. |
| Reverse [6:14] r 77–r 1414 | The Arabs are going in and out as before, everything is all right. Ammili'ti son of Amiri came to me in Ṣupat and I asked him for news, everything is fine. The son of Ašapi having gone to Mani', we have no report from him yet. |
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}EN—liq-bi | |
| 3 | lu DI-mu a-na\t LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 4 | {uru}he-e-sa E₂—mar-di\d-ti\t-ia E₂—mar-di\d-ti\t-ia | |
| 5 | UN-MEŠ\m ina ŠA₃-bi la-aš₂-šu₂ | |
| 6 | {lu₂vy}GAL—kal-li\d-e {lu₂vy}GAL—kal-li\d-e {lu₂vy}GAL—rak-si {lu₂vy}GAL—rak-si | |
| 7 | u₂-di\d-šu₂-nu ina ŠA₃-bi la-a i-ha-ri\d-du | |
| 8 | u₂\m-ma-a a-na\t-ku 30 E₂-MEŠ\m | |
| 9 | lu-ša₂-bi-ša₂ ina ŠA₃-bi la-aš₂-ku-nu | |
| 10 | ERIM-MEŠ\m ša\dm {1}{d}PA—ṣal-la {lu₂vy}GAR-nu | |
| 11 | {lu₂vy}DUMU—ki-⸢it-ki⸣-te-e {lu₂vy}DUMU—ki-⸢it-ki⸣-te-e 01-en | |
| 12 | {lu₂vy}ki-ṣir ina ŠA₃-bi {uru}he-e-sa | |
| 13 | kam-mu-su lu-še-ṣi-šu₂-nu | |
| 14 | ina ŠA₃-bi {uru}ar-gi-te | |
| 15 | lu-še-šib-šu₂-nu A.ŠA₃-MEŠ\m {giš}SAR-MEŠ\m | |
| 16 | li-di-⸢na\t⸣-aš₂-šu₂-nu | |
| 17 | šum-ma ma-hi-ir pa-an LUGAL | |
| 18 | e-gir-tu₂ ina UGU {1}{d}PA—ṣal-la | |
| 19 | {lu₂vy}GAR-ni liš\d-pa-ru-u-ni | |
| b.e. | ||
| 20 | {1}ia-ʾi-i-ru {lu₂vy}02-u | |
| 21 | a-na\t {lu₂vy}GAL—URU-ME-te {lu₂vy}GAL—URU-ME-te | |
| r | ||
| 1 | ina ŠA₃-bi la-ap-qid | |
| 2 | u₃ {1}{d}30—SUM\m-na\t | |
| 3 | {lu₂vy}GAL—E₂ {lu₂vy}GAL—E₂ ⸢ša\dm⸣ {1}10—ha-ti | |
| 4 | ina {uru}sa-za-na\t-a la-ap-qid | |
| 5 | ba-si E₂—mar-⸢di⸣-a-te E₂—mar-⸢di⸣-a-te an-nu-te | |
| 6 | i-ha-ri\d-du [o] LUGAL | |
| 7 | i-pa-lu-hu {lu₂vy}ar-ba-a.a | |
| 8 | a-ki ša\dm ti-ma-li ša₂-šu-me | |
| 9 | e-ru-bu u₂-ṣu-u DI\d-mu a—dan-niš | |
| 10 | {1}a-mi—li-iʾ-ti DUMU {1}a-me-ri | |
| 11 | ina {uru}ṣu-pi-te ina UGU-hi-ia | |
| 12 | i-tal-ka ṭe₃-ma-te a-sa-ʾa-al-šu₂ | |
| 13 | DI-mu a—dan-niš DUMU {1}a-ša₂-pi | |
| 14 | a-na\t {kur}ma-ni-iʾ ša\dm il-lik-u-ni | |
| 15 | u₂-di\d-ni ṭe₃-en-šu₂ la-a ni-ša₂-me | |
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