ABL 0421 (P334289)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0421 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334289 |
| 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/saa10 · 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 Marduk-šumu-uṣur. Good health to the king, my lord! May Nabû and Marduk bless the king, my lord! |
| Obverse [5:16] o 66–o 1616 | The father of the king, my lord, gave me 10 homers of cultivated land in Halahhu. For 14 years I had the usufruct of the land, and nobody disputed it with me. (But) now the governor of Barhalzi has come and mistreated the farmer, plundered his house and appropriated my land. |
| Obverse [16:29] o 1717– | The king, my lord, knows that I am a poor man, that I keep the watch of the king, my lord, and am guilty of no negligence within the palace. Now I have been deprived of my field. I have turned to the king; may the king, my lord, do me justice, may I not die of hunger! |
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 EN-ia | |
| 2 | ARAD-ka {1}{d}AMAR.UTU—MU—PAB | |
| 3 | lu-u DI-mu a-na LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 4 | {d}AG {d}AMAR.UTU | |
| 5 | a-na LUGAL EN-ia lik-ru-bu | |
| 6 | AD-šu₂ ša LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 7 | 10 ANŠE {še}NUMUN ina {kur}ha-lah₃-hi | |
| 8 | it-ta-na 14 MU.AN.NA-MEŠ | |
| 9 | A.ŠA₃ a-ta-kal | |
| 10 | me-me-ni is-si-ia | |
| 11 | la id-di-bu-ub | |
| 12 | u₂-ma-a {lu₂}EN.NAM | |
| 13 | la {kur}bar-hal-zi it-tal-ka | |
| 14 | {lu₂}ENGAR ih-te-si | |
| 15 | E₂-su im-ta-ša₂-aʾ | |
| 16 | A.ŠA₃ ip-tu-ag | |
| 17 | LUGAL be-li₂ u₂-da | |
| 18 | ki-i muš-ke-nu | |
| 19 | a-na-ku-u-ni | |
| 20 | ma-ṣar-tu₂ | |
| r | ||
| 1 | ša LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 2 | a-na-ṣar-u-ni | |
| 3 | <$ina$> ŠA₃-bi E₂.GAL | |
| 4 | la a-ši-ṭu-u-ni | |
| 5 | u₂-ma-a A.ŠA₃ pe-ga-ku | |
| 6 | LUGAL at-ta-har | |
| 7 | LUGAL be-li₂ | |
| 8 | de-e-ni le-pu-uš | |
| 9 | ina bu-bu-ti lu la a-mu-at | |
Sources & licences
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