ABL 0463 (P334318)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0463 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334318 |
| 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/saa05 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:1] o 1'o 1'–o 1'o 1' | (1) (Beginning destroyed) |
| Obverse [1:2] o 2'2'–o 2'2' | [......] of the king, my lord. |
| Obverse [2:10] o 3'3'–o 10'10' | I sen[t] my messenger, but he insu[lted] my messenger, saying: "Why do you plot against the king's subjects? I am at war with you, do not come down to my country and my district! I will not release the rest to you!" |
| Obverse [10:11] o 11'11'–o 11'11' | The [...] have amassed fields and houses [...] |
| Obverse [11:13] o 12'12'–o 13'13' | [o]f the king [......] |
| Reverse [0:8] r 1'1'–r 8'8' | I [was notified] by the king my lord's court: "He should repay you the debts that he ow[es you]." He has not obeyed the king's order though, and has [n]ot paid his debt to me; from the moment I appealed to the king, my lord, he has been killing and robbing the king my lord's servants wherever he sees them, laying waste the king's roads. |
| Reverse [8:12] r 9'9'–r 12'12' | I cannot leave my house; he is plotting to kill me. [I am] now [on my way] to the king, [my] lo[rd ......] |
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' | [x x]+⸢x x⸣+[x x x x x x] | |
| 2' | ša LUGAL EN-⸢ia lu-x⸣+[x x x] | |
| 3' | {lu₂v}DUMU—šip-ri-ia {lu₂v}DUMU—šip-ri-ia a-sa-pa-[ra] | |
| 4' | {lu₂v}DUMU—šip-ri-ia {lu₂v}DUMU—šip-ri-ia ih-⸢ti⸣-[si] | |
| 5' | ma-a a-ta-a UGU {lu₂v}ARAD-MEŠ\m-ni | |
| 6' | ša\dy LUGAL ta-da\d-bu-bu | |
| 7' | ma-a na\d-ka-ra-ka i-si-ku-nu | |
| 8' | ma-a i-na {kur}ma-ti-ia | |
| 9' | i-na na\t-gi-ia-a la tu₂-ra-da\d | |
| 10' | ma-a re-hu-ti la u₂-ra-⸢ma⸣-ka | |
| 11' | A.ŠA₃-MEŠ\m E₂-MEŠ\m ina ⸢UGU x⸣+[x x x] | |
| 12' | in-ta-aʾ-da [x x x x] | |
| 13' | ⸢ša⸣ LUGAL ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | ⸢TA@v pa-an⸣ LUGAL EN-ia a-[x x x] | |
| 2' | ma-a hi-bi-la-te-ka mar ih-⸢bil⸣-[u-ka-ni] | |
| 3' | ⸢li⸣-di-na-ka a-bat LUGAL | |
| 4' | la-a iš-me hi-bi-la-te-ia | |
| 5' | ⸢la⸣-a i-di-na TA@v\m E₂ LUGAL | |
| 6' | be-li₂ a-hu-ru-u-ni {lu₂v}ARAD-MEŠ\m-ni | |
| 7' | ša\d LUGAL be-li₂-ia E₂ i-ma-ru\d-ni | |
| 8' | i-du-ka i-ha-bat KASKAL-MEŠ\m—LUGAL-MEŠ\m-ni KASKAL-MEŠ\m—LUGAL-MEŠ\m-ni | |
| 9' | u₂-sa-ha-ri-ri a-na-ku | |
| 10' | TA@v\m E₂ la u₂\m-ṣa UGU du-a-ki-ia | |
| 11' | i-da\d-bu-bu u₂\m-ma-a | |
| 12' | pa-an LUGAL ⸢EN⸣-[ia x x x] | |
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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