ABL 0484 (P334332)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0484 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334332 |
| 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 [0:4] o 1o 1–o 44 | To the king, our lord: your servants Ṭab-ṣill-Ešarra and Na'di- ilu. Good health to the king, our lord! |
| Obverse [4:12] o 55–o 1212 | As to what the king, our lord, wrote to us: "While you were here, I gave you this order: 'You will first go to Lurisite and choose strong and good-looking timber; later you will take woodcutters down to do the cutting within (the said area)'" — |
| Obverse [12:17] o 1313–o 1717 | the king did give us (this) order, but as we [ca]me to the city of Aššur, the Chief Eunuch [with x] men [...... |
| Reverse [0:4] r 1'1'–r 4'4' | "......] to return [to] Samarra; should the men stay inactive for eight days?" |
| Reverse [4:11] r 5'5'–r 11'11' | We took the men downstream, and they are now cutting (the timber). We shall cut within the area which the king set to us, and (then) go; we shall leave the best stems [in] the grove (when) we go. |
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-ni | |
| 2 | ARAD-MEŠ-ka {1}IM—ṣil\m—E₂.ŠAR₂.RA | |
| 3 | {1}I—DINGIR | |
| 4 | lu DI-mu a-na\t LUGAL EN-ni | |
| 5 | ša LUGAL EN-ni iš-pur-an-na-ši-ni | |
| 6 | ma-a ki-i an-na\t-ka at-ta-nu-ni | |
| 7 | ma-a ṭe₃-e-mu a-sa-kan-ku-nu | |
| 8 | ma-a tah\pm-ru-ba a-na\t {uru}lu-ri-si-te | |
| 9 | tal-la-ka ma-a {giš}UR₃-MEŠ\m | |
| 10 | KALAG.GA-MEŠ\m SIG₅-MEŠ\m ta\p-⸢mar⸣ | |
| 11 | ma-a ha-ra-ma-ma {lu₂v}na\t-ki-su-te | |
| 12 | tu₂-⸢še⸣-ra-da\d ina ŠA₃-bi i-na\t-ki-su | |
| 13 | LUGAL EN-ni ṭe₃-e-mu i-sa-kan-na\t-ši | |
| 14 | [ki]-⸢i⸣ ina ŠA₃-bi {uru}aš-šur | |
| 15 | [ni]-⸢lik⸣-a-ni {lu₂v}GAL—SAG {lu₂v}GAL—SAG {lu₂v}GAL—SAG | |
| 16 | [TA@v x-me]-02 {lu₂v}ERIM-MEŠ\m | |
| 17 | [x x x x x x]-⸢ru⸣-ru | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [a-na {uru]}su-ri-mar-rat | |
| 2' | [x x x]+⸢x⸣-ša₂-ma sa-ha-ru | |
| 3' | [ma]-a 08-e UD-MEŠ\m {lu₂v}ERIM-MEŠ\m | |
| 4' | ⸢lu⸣-u qa-lu lu-⸢u⸣ kam-mu-su | |
| 5' | {lu₂v}ERIM-MEŠ\m nu-se-ri-di | |
| 6' | i-na-ki-su | |
| 7' | a-na ŠA₃-bi ta\p-hu-me | |
| 8' | ša LUGAL be-li₂ iš-kun\m-na\t-na\t-ši-ni | |
| 9' | ni-na\t-ki-is ⸢ni⸣-il-⸢lak⸣ | |
| 10' | {giš}UR₃-MEŠ\m SIG₅-MEŠ [ina] {⸢giš⸣}MURUB₄\mm-MEŠ\m | |
| 11' | nu-ra-am-ma | |
| 12' | ni-<$la-ka$> | |
Sources & licences
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