ABL 0442 (P334306)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0442 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334306 |
| 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/saa16 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:7] o 1o 1–o 77 | To the king, [our] lord: (your) servants, the ma[yors] and [el]ders o[f the Inner City. Good] health to [the king, our lord]! May [the gods of] Ešar[ra greatly] b[less] the king, [our] lord. |
| Obverse [7:12] o 88–o 1212 | Your [father, your] gran[dfather], (and) [the fath]er of [your] gran[dfather] e[xempted] the city of Assur. (And) you have [established] additional [privileges for us]. |
| Obverse [12:19] o 1313– | Now the men of the house of the [governor] have appointed officials over the Inner City. [They] are exac[ting] corn taxes (and) collecting straw taxes. |
| Reverse [0:10] r 1r 1–r 1010 | You are the true seed of Sennacherib. Aššur and Šamaš have blessed you, your son, your son's son, generation to generation. You exercise kingship over us. (Yet) in [your] reign, [they are exacting] our corn taxes (and) [collecting] our straw taxes! |
| Reverse [10:14] r 1111–r 1414 | As to the houses [about which the king, our lord], wrote to [us]: "Wha[t] is the matter (with these)?" — we [have asked] (about them). |
| Reverse [14:15] r 1515–r 1515 | The (legal) documents [...] |
| Reverse [15:16] r 1616–r 1616 | in the house of the governor [...] |
| Reverse [16:17] r 1717–r 1717 | [they] have placed and [...] |
| Reverse [17:19] r 1818– | he will say [......] |
| Right [0:3] r.e. 19r.e. 19–r.e. 2121 | May a messen[ger of the king, our lord], co[me ...] and appo[int ...]. |
| Right [3:4] r.e. 2222–r.e. 2222 | in [......] |
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-[ni] | |
| 2 | ⸢ARAD⸣-MEŠ-<ka> {lu₂}ha-[za-na-te] | |
| 3 | {[lu₂]}⸢par⸣-šu₂-mu-te ⸢ša⸣ {[uru}ŠA₃—URU] | |
| 4 | [lu-u] DI-mu a-na [LUGAL EN-ni] | |
| 5 | [DINGIR-MEŠ ša] E₂.ŠAR₂.[RA] | |
| 6 | [a-na] LUGAL EN-[ni] | |
| 7 | [a—dan-niš] lik-[ru-bu] | |
| 8 | [AD]-ka ⸢AD⸣—[AD-ka] ⸢AD⸣—[AD-ka] | |
| 9 | ⸢AD⸣ ša ⸢AD⸣—[AD-ka] ⸢AD⸣—[AD-ka] | |
| 10 | {uru}ŠA₃—URU u₂-[za-ki-u₂] | |
| 11 | at-ta u₂-tu₂-[x x x x] | |
| 12 | u₂-tu₂-ru-te ⸢ta⸣-[sa-kan] | |
| 13 | u₂-ma-a ša E₂ {⸢lu₂⸣}[GAR.KUR] {⸢lu₂⸣}[GAR.KUR] | |
| 14 | {lu₂}qe-ba-a-ni | |
| 15 | ina UGU {uru}ŠA₃—URU | |
| 16 | ip-ta-aq-du | |
| 17 | {še}nu-sa-hi i-⸢na⸣-su-[hu] | |
| 18 | {še}ši-ib-še i-šab-bu-šu₂ | |
| r | ||
| 1 | at-ta NUMUN-MEŠ GIN | |
| 2 | ša {1}{d}30—PAB-MEŠ—SU | |
| 3 | at-ta DUMU-ka | |
| 4 | DUMU—DUMU-ka DUMU—DUMU-ka le-bu | |
| 5 | a-na le-e-bi | |
| 6 | aš-šur {d}UTU ik-tar-bu-ka | |
| 7 | LUGAL-u-tu₂ ina UGU-hi-ni [o] | |
| 8 | tu-pa-aš₂ ina ti-ir-⸢ṣi⸣-[ka] | |
| 9 | {še}nu-sa-hi-ni i-[na-su-hu] | |
| 10 | {še}ši-ib-še-ni i-[šab-bu-šu₂] | |
| 11 | ina UGU E₂-MEŠ [ša LUGAL EN-ni] | |
| 12 | iš-pur-an-[na-ši-ni] | |
| 13 | ma-a mi₃-i-[nu o] | |
| 14 | šu-tu₂-u-ni ni-[sa-ʾa-al] | |
| 15 | dan-na-a-te [x x x x] | |
| 16 | ina E₂ {lu₂}GAR.KUR {lu₂}GAR.KUR [x x x] | |
| 17 | i-sa-ka-[nu x x x x] | |
| 18 | i-qab-bi [x x x x x] | |
| r.e. | ||
| 19 | {lu₂}A—šip-[ri {lu₂}A—šip-[ri ša LUGAL EN-ni] | |
| 20 | lil-⸢li⸣-[ka x x x] | |
| 21 | lip-[qid x x x x] | |
| 22 | ina ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x] | |
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