ABL 0486 (P334333)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0486 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334333 |
| 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 [0:3] o 1o 1–o 33 | To the king, my lord: your servant Ṭab-šar-Aššur. Good health to the king, my lord! |
| Obverse [3:8] o 44–o 88 | As to the work assignment of the governor of Calah about which the king, my lord, wrote to me: "Why has the governor of Arrapha left half of the gate to him?" |
| Obverse [8:15] o 99–o 1515 | On the 3rd, when they started on the city wall, they came to me, saying: "Come and settle our work allocation between us!" I went and settled it between them. Perhaps the king, my lord, now says: "Why [......" |
| Reverse [1:7] r 1'1'–r 6'6' | [Out of the ...] work assignment (units) of the governor of Calah, that of the wall reached as far as the edge of the gate of the Tower of People, and out of the 850 work assignment (units) of the governor of Arrapha, the wall (assignment) extended as far as the edge of the gate of the Tower of People. |
| Reverse [7:16] r 7'7'–r 15'15' | I deducted this (stretch of) wall from the gate (assignment), calculated the bricks for the balance of the gate, and gave three fourths to the governor of Arrapha and ... one fourth to the governor of Calah even before the king's sealed message had come to me. |
| Reverse [16:23] r 16'16'– | The governor of Calah [did] not know that his wall assignment extended [only as far as the edge] of the gate, and that is why he said: "I have too large an assignment." I have now arbitrated between them and they are both doing their work. |
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—IM—aš-šur | |
| 3 | lu DI\d-mu a-na LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 4 | ina UGU pil₂-ki ša\d {lu₂v}EN.NAM | |
| 5 | ša\dd {uru}kal-ha ša\d LUGAL be-⸢li₂⸣ o | |
| 6 | iš-pur-an-ni ma-a a-ta-a | |
| 7 | {lu₂v}EN.NAM ša\d {uru}arrap-ha | |
| 8 | meš-li KA₂.GAL ina IGI-šu₂ u₂-ra\t-am-me | |
| 9 | ina ŠA₃ UD 03-KAM ki-i ina UGU BAD₃\t | |
| 10 | e-ti\t-qu-ni it-tal-ku-ni iq\d-ṭi₂\p-bu-ni | |
| 11 | ma-a al\d-ka pil₂-ka-ni-ni | |
| 12 | ina bir-tu-ni ka-in at-ta-lak | |
| 13 | uk-ta-in ina bir-tu-šu₂-⸢nu⸣ | |
| 14 | i—su\t-ri LUGAL be-li₂ i-[qab-bi] | |
| 15 | [ma-a ina] UGU mi-⸢ni⸣ [x x] | |
| r | ||
| 0 | [ša {lu₂v}EN.NAM ša {uru}kal-ha TA@v\m ŠA₃ x x] | |
| 1' | pil₂-ki-šu₂ ⸢ša\d BAD₃⸣ [a-di x x x] | |
| 2' | TE KA₂.GAL ša\yd na-me-ri UN-MEŠ\m | |
| 3' | e-tar-ba\t u₃\d ša\d {lu₂v}EN.NAM | |
| 4' | ša\yd {uru}arrap-ha TA@v\m ŠA₃ 08 me 50 | |
| 5' | pil₂-ki-šu₂ ša BAD₃\t a-di TE KA₂.GAL | |
| 6' | ša\yd na-me-ri UN-MEŠ e-tar-ba\t | |
| 7' | BAD₃\t an-ni-u TA@v\m ŠA₃ KA₂.GAL u₂-ta-li | |
| 8' | re-eh-ti KA₂.GAL SIG₄-MEŠ an-tu-nu | |
| 9' | 03 ŠU.2-MEŠ a-na {lu₂v}EN.NAM ša\d {uru}arrap-ha | |
| 10' | a-ti\t-din 01 qa\d-ti a-na {lu₂v}EN.NAM | |
| 11' | ša\d {uru}kal-ha ina mu-ṣa-li\dp-ma | |
| 12' | a-ti\t-din u₂-di-ni | |
| 13' | un-qi LUGAL ina UGU-hi-ia | |
| 14' | ⸢la⸣ ta-qar-ri-ba\t-ni | |
| 15' | [u₃] {lu₂v}EN.NAM ša\d {uru}kal-ha | |
| 16' | [la] ⸢u₂⸣-da\d ki-i pil₂-ku-šu₂ ša\d BAD₃ | |
| r.e. | ||
| 17 | [a-di TE] KA₂.GAL e-ru-bu-u-ni | |
| 18 | [ina] ⸢UGU⸣-hi šu₂-u iq\d-ṭi₂-bi | |
| 19 | [ma-a] pil₂-ku ina UGU-ia | |
| e. | ||
| 1 | [in]-ti\t-iʾ-di u₂-ma-a ap-ta-ra\t-as ina bir-tu-šu₂-[nu] | |
| 2 | [ia]-mut-tu₂ pil₂-ku-šu₂ e-pa-aš₂ | |
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