ABL 0480 (P334328)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0480 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334328 |
| 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 [0:5] o 1o 1–o 55 | To the king, my lord: your servant Ṭab-ṣill-Ešarra. Good health to the king, my lord! May Aššur and Mullissu bless the king, my lord! |
| Obverse [5:14] o 66–o 1414 | There is an estate of 4,000 hectares of arable land in a village called Qurani in the Halahhu province which the king my lord took and [gave] to the Nabû temple of Dur-Šarruken, and (in doing this) the king my lord [gave] this order to [Kiṣir]-Aššur: "Give the Governor of the Land a village in return for the village [......]!" |
| Obverse [14:20] o 1515– | [...... in] Halzi-atbar [......] there [......] an estate of 320 hectares [......] he has not given, and I have not cultivated [the king's arable fields]. |
| Reverse [0:9] r 1r 1–r 99 | It is the second year now [that ......] instead of [......]. Let the king, my lord, send a messenger to parcel out whatever field he has left and give it to my messenger. If not, he will keep ignoring me, and I can't put the king my lord's arable fields into cultivation. |
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.GA—ṣil\m—E₂.ŠAR₂.RA | |
| 3 | lu DI-mu a-na LUGAL EN-ia₂ | |
| 4 | aš-šur {d}NIN.LIL₂ a-na LUGAL | |
| 5 | EN-ia lik-ru\dp-bu | |
| 6 | {uru}qu-ra-ni i-qa-bu-ni-šu₂ | |
| 7 | ina {kur}ha-lah₂-hi E₂ 04 lim A.ŠA₃ | |
| 8 | ina ŠA₃\p-bi LUGAL EN i-ti\t-ši | |
| 9 | a-na E₂—{d}PA ša {uru}BAD₃\p—MAN—GIN | |
| 10 | [it-ti-din] ⸢u₃⸣ LUGAL be-li\t | |
| 11 | [a-na {1}ki]-⸢ṣir⸣—aš-šur ṭe₃-e-mu | |
| 12 | [is-sa-kan ma-a] ⸢URU⸣ ina ku-um URU | |
| 13 | [ina {kur}x x x] a-na {lu₂v}GAR.KUR {lu₂v}GAR.KUR {lu₂v}GAR.KUR | |
| 14 | [x x x x x] di-ni | |
| 15 | [x x x x x ina] {kur}hal-zi—AD.BAR | |
| 16 | [x x x x x] ⸢ina⸣ ŠA₃\p-bi | |
| 17 | [x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ E₂ 03 me 20 A.ŠA₃ | |
| 18 | [x x x x] la i-din | |
| 19 | [x x x x] la e-ru-šu₂ | |
| r | ||
| 1 | [an-nu]-ri 02-tu₂ šat-tu₂ | |
| 2 | [x x x]+⸢x⸣ TA\p qa-ni | |
| 3 | [x x x x {lu₂v]}A—šip-ri\d {lu₂v]}A—šip-ri\d {lu₂v]}A—šip-ri\d | |
| 4 | LUGAL EN liš-pur A.ŠA₃\p | |
| 5 | am—mar ina pa-ni-šu₂ re\d-hu-ni | |
| 6 | ⸢li⸣-ib-tu-qu a-na | |
| 7 | {lu₂v}A—šip-ri-ia {lu₂v}A—šip-ri-ia {lu₂v}A—šip-ri-ia li-din | |
| 8 | la-šu-u-ma u₂-sa-ne₂-taq-a-ni | |
| 9 | {šep}NUMUN\d-MEŠ\m ša LUGAL EN-ia₂ | |
| 10 | [ina] ŠA₃-bi la a-ra-aš₂ | |
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