ABL 0466 (P334321)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0466 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334321 |
| 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 [0:5] o 1o 1–o 55 | Yala[...], the crown prince of And[ia], is coming t[o ...], accompanied by the em[issary] Nergal-belu-uṣur. |
| Obverse [5:15] o 66– | 16 red horses; 13 irginu horses; 14 black horses; 1 Haršean horse; 1 tuanu horse; 6 mares; 5 mules; in all 51 horses from the crown prince of Andia. |
| Reverse [3:10] r 44–r 1010 | Abat-šarri-uṣur, the Mannean emissary, is coming with them. I asked him: "Is the audience gift with you?" |
| Reverse [10:13] r 1111– | He said: "[......] to [......]; |
| Right [0:2] r.e. 13r.e. 13–r.e. 1414 | "what[ever ...] ...[...]." |
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 | {1}ia-la-[x x] | |
| 2 | DUMU—LUGAL\p DUMU—LUGAL\p {kur}an-⸢di⸣-[a.a] | |
| 3 | i-la\p-ka a-[na x x] | |
| 4 | {1}{d}MAŠ.MAŠ—EN—PAB {lu₂vy}⸢qur⸣-[bu-tu₂] | |
| 5 | i-si-šu [o] | |
| 6 | 16 {anše}KUR.RA-MEŠ\m ⸢SA₅\m⸣-MEŠ | |
| 7 | 13 KUR-MEŠ ir-gi-ni | |
| 8 | 14 KUR-MEŠ GI₆-MEŠ | |
| 9 | 01 KUR har-ša₂-a.a | |
| 10 | 01 KUR tu\t-a-nu | |
| 11 | 06 KUR MI₂.HUB₂-MEŠ\m | |
| r | ||
| 1 | 05 {anše}GIR₃.NUN\dm.NA\d-MEŠ\m-šu₂ | |
| 2 | PAB 51 KUR-MEŠ ša\tdym DUMU—LUGAL DUMU—LUGAL | |
| 3 | {kur}an-di-a.a | |
| 4 | {1}a-bat—LUGAL—PAB {lu₂vy}MAH | |
| 5 | {kur}man-na\d-a.a i-si-šu₂-nu | |
| 6 | i-la-ka | |
| 7 | a-sa-al-šu₂ | |
| 8 | ma-a na-mur-tu₂ [o] | |
| 9 | i-ba\t-ši | |
| 10 | ŠU.2-ti\t-ku-⸢nu⸣-[u] | |
| 11 | ma-a ⸢pa-x x⸣ [x] | |
| 12 | a-na\d ⸢x⸣+[x x x x] | |
| r.e. | ||
| 13 | ma-a ⸢mi⸣-[i-nu] | |
| 14 | ša₂ u₂\m-[x x x] | |
| 15 | u₂\m-⸢qa⸣-[x x x] | |
Sources & licences
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