ABL 0482 (P334330)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0482 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334330 |
| 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 | I have moved my Itu'aeans to the other bank of the river to stand guard in the town of Sinnu. The king, my lord, knows that I have only few equipped men and that the [wor]k here is hard. I cannot cu[t the timber with] the magnates [...... |
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\t⸣ LUGAL EN-[ia] | |
| 2 | ⸢ARAD⸣-ka {1}DUG₃.GA—ṣil\m—E₂.[ŠAR₂.RA] | |
| 3 | ⸢lu⸣ DI-mu a-na\t LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 4 | aš-šur {d}NIN.LIL₂ a-<na> LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 5 | lik-ru-bu | |
| 6 | {lu₂v}i-tu₂-ʾa-a.a-e-a | |
| 7 | a-na\t bat-te am-me-te ša\ym ID₂ | |
| 8 | u₂-se-bir ina {uru}si-in-ni | |
| 9 | EN.NUN\m i-na\t-ṣur LUGAL EN u₂-da\d | |
| 10 | {lu₂v}ERIM-MEŠ-ia ra\tp-ki-su-te e-ṣu | |
| 11 | [u dul]-⸢lu⸣ an-na-ka KALAG-an | |
| 12 | [la u₂]-ša₂-an-ṣa | |
| 13 | {[giš}UR₃-MEŠ] ⸢TA⸣ {lu₂v}GAL-MEŠ | |
| 14 | [la-a a]-⸢na\t⸣-ki-is | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [x x x x x x]+x-⸢MEŠ⸣ | |
| 2' | [x x x x x x]-ši | |
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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