ABL 0452 (P334314)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0452 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334314 |
| 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 [Ṭab-šar-Aššur]. Good health to [the king], my lord! |
| Obverse [3:8] o 44–o 88 | As to what the king, my lord, wrote to me: "When are they going to cast the gate column-bases for the portico of the hilānu palaces?" |
| Obverse [8:18] o 99– | I asked Aššur-šumi-ke'in and the artists, who told me this: "We are going to cast four column-bases of bronze for two hilānu palaces in the month of Marchesvan (VIII); the small lions of the hilānu(s) will be cast together with the big lions in the spring." |
| Bottom [2:7] b.e. 1818– | I asked the son of B[el-...] about the work on the temple doors: "When are you going to finish your work?" |
| Reverse [3:11] r 44–r 1111 | He informed me as follows: "The doors of the temples of Sin, Šamaš and Nikkal to be coated with silver sheets have been made but the wooden saramu's are not ready; I shall finish them by the 1st of Tishri (VII)." |
| Reverse [11:19] r 1212– | On the doors to be coated with bronze sheets he said: "Doors of five doorways are finished [...... |
| Edge [0:3] e. 1e. 1–e. 33 | I shall send word; they will bring the sheets together with [...] to Dur-Šarruken, and we shall set to it and make them. |
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}[DUG₃—IM—aš-šur] | |
| 3 | lu DI-mu ⸢a⸣-[na LUGAL EN]-ia | |
| 4 | ša\yd LUGAL be-li₂ ⸢iš⸣-[pur-an]-ni | |
| 5 | ma-a gul-la-a-te ⸢ša KA₂⸣ | |
| 6 | ša\yd šap-la tim\t-me | |
| 7 | ša\yd E₂—hi-il-la-na-te E₂—hi-il-la-na-te | |
| 8 | ma-a im—ma-te im—ma-te u₂\dm-ša₂-ra-qu | |
| 9 | a-na {1}aš-šur—MU—ki-in | |
| 10 | a-na {lu₂v}um\d-ma-ni a-sa-ʾa-al\d | |
| 11 | ma-a ina {iti}APIN 04 gul-la-te URUDU\d | |
| 12 | ša\yd 02 E₂—hi-il-la-na-ni E₂—hi-il-la-na-ni | |
| 13 | nu-ša\yd-ra-qa\d ma-a UR.MAH-MEŠ\m | |
| 14 | QAL₃\m-MEŠ\m-te ša\dd E₂—hi-il-la-ni E₂—hi-il-la-ni | |
| 15 | ma-a TA@v\m UR.MAH-MEŠ KALAG-MEŠ | |
| b.e. | ||
| 16 | ina IGI MU.AN.⸢NA⸣ | |
| 17 | u₂-ša₂-ra-qu-⸢ma⸣ | |
| 18 | ina UGU dul-li ša {giš}⸢IG⸣-[MEŠ] | |
| r | ||
| 1 | ša\yd E₂—DINGIR E₂—DINGIR a-na DUMU {1}⸢EN⸣—[x x] | |
| 2 | a-sa-ʾa-al\d nu-uk\td | |
| 3 | du₆-la-ka im—ma-te im—ma-te | |
| 4 | tu-ga-mar ki-i an-ni-i | |
| 5 | iq\d-ṭi₂-bi-a ma-a {giš}IG\d-MEŠ\m | |
| 6 | ša\yd E₂—{d}30 ša\yd E₂—{d}UTU | |
| 7 | ša\yd E₂—{d}NIN.GAL | |
| 8 | ša\yd le\d-ʾa-a-ni ša\yd KUG.UD-MEŠ\m | |
| 9 | ina UGU-hi e-lu-u-ni ra-aṣ\d-pa | |
| 10 | {giš}sa-ra-me-e la ga-mu-ru | |
| 11 | ma-a UD 01-KAM ša\yd {iti}DU₆ a-ga-mar | |
| 12 | ina UGU {giš}IG-MEŠ\m ša\yd ZU\t-MEŠ | |
| 13 | ša\d URUDU-MEŠ\m ina UGU-hi e-lu-ni | |
| 14 | ⸢iq⸣-ṭi₂-bi-a ma-a ša\d 05 | |
| 15 | [x x] ⸢KA₂⸣-MEŠ-ni gam-mu-ra | |
| r.e. | ||
| 16 | [x x x x]+⸢x⸣-MEŠ ša ⸢x x⸣+[x] | |
| 17 | [x x x x x] ⸢qu ni⸣ [x] | |
| 18 | [x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣+[x x] | |
| e. | ||
| 1 | a-šap-pa-ar ZU\t-MEŠ\m a-di ša\yd ⸢x⸣+[x x x] | |
| 2 | ⸢ina⸣ {uru}BAD₃\p—{1}MAN—GIN ub\d-bal-lu-ni | |
| 3 | ⸢A₂⸣.2-MEŠ-ni] | |
| 4 | nu-um\d-ma-da\d ne₂-pa-aš₂ | |
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