ABL 0506 (P334347)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0506 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334347 |
| 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 [0:4] o 1o 1–o 44 | [To the king], my lord: [your servant] Ašipâ. The best of health to the king, my lord! |
| Obverse [4:6] o 55–o 66 | The forts and the land of the king, my lord, are well. |
| Obverse [6:10] o 77–o 1010 | The 'third man' of the king, my lord, who came, told me: "Your guard should be strong!" The guard is very strong. |
| Obverse [10:24] o 1111– | Three governors in Pulua and another three in Danibani are gathered with pack animals opposite us. We are keeping watch opposite them. All the people are inside fortified places; the oxen and sheep are on this side [o]f the river. We are standing by and keeping wa[tch] in [...]. |
| Reverse [0:8] r 1r 1–r 88 | As to the stra[w] concerning which the king, my lord, [wrote me, there has been no] ra[in] in Tammuz (IV) and water has become scarce, so the deputy and all the village managers have come down (from the mountains) to purchase straw. They have sold (them) whatever harbu (straw) there was. |
| Reverse [8:14] r 99–r 1414 | As to the Itu'eans concerning whom the king, my lord, wr[ot]e me, did I ask for troops? I wrote to the king, my lord, as follows: |
| Reverse [14:23] r 1515– | "Of the Itu'eans in my country, there is a surplus of 500 men who should have kept watch with me. Why [did they g]o [to] Guzana? Let them release the men to me." |
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}a-ši-pa-a | |
| 3 | ⸢lu⸣ DI-mu a-na LUGAL | |
| 4 | EN-ia a—dan-niš | |
| 5 | DI-mu a-na {uru}bi-rat | |
| 6 | a-na KUR ša\dm LUGAL EN-ia₂ | |
| 7 | {lu₂}03.U₅ ša\dm LUGAL EN-ia₂ | |
| 8 | ša\dm il-li-kan-ni | |
| 9 | ma-a EN.NUN\dm-ka lu dan-na-at | |
| 10 | EN.NUN\dm dan-na-at a—dan-niš | |
| 11 | 03 {lu₂vy}EN.NAM-MEŠ ina {uru}pu\p-lu-a | |
| 12 | 03 {lu₂vy}NAM-MEŠ ina {uru}da\d-ni-ba-ni | |
| 13 | ina pu\t-tu-ni TA {anše}a-ṣap-pi | |
| 14 | pu\p-uh-ru\d a-ni-nu | |
| 15 | EN.NUN\dm ina pu\p-tu-šu-nu | |
| 16 | ni-na-ṣar\d UN-MEŠ gab-bu\p | |
| 17 | ina E₂\d—BAD₃\p-MEŠ-ni E₂\d—BAD₃\p-MEŠ-ni šu-nu | |
| 18 | GUD-MEŠ UDU-MEŠ ina ba-te | |
| 19 | an-ni-te ⸢ša⸣ ID₂ šu-⸢nu⸣ | |
| 20 | a-ni-[nu ni]-za-⸢az⸣ | |
| b.e. | ||
| 21 | ina ⸢x x⸣+[x x]+⸢x⸣ | |
| 22 | ni-na-ṣar\m [o] | |
| r | ||
| 1 | šu-uh {še}IN.[NU] | |
| 2 | ša\dm LUGAL be-li₂ [iš-pur-an-ni] | |
| 3 | ina ŠA₃ {itim}ŠU A.[AN la-a-šu₂] | |
| 4 | A-MEŠ i-si-ṣu {lu₂v}02-u | |
| 5 | {lu₂vy}GAL—URU-MEŠ {lu₂vy}GAL—URU-MEŠ gab-bu\p | |
| 6 | i-tu-ur-du {še}IN.NU | |
| 7 | i-si-qi\tm-u ša\dm har-bi | |
| 8 | am—mar i-ba-šu-u-ni | |
| 9 | i-ta-an-nu šu-uh | |
| 10 | {lu₂vy}i-tu-ʾe-e ša\dm LUGAL | |
| 11 | be-li₂ iš-⸢pur⸣-an-ni | |
| 12 | a-na-ku {lu₂vy}ERIM-MEŠ-e | |
| 13 | e-te-ri-iš ki-i | |
| 14 | an-ni-e a-na LUGAL EN-ia₂ | |
| 15 | a-sa-bar nu-ku {lu₂vy}i-tu₂-u | |
| 16 | ša\dm ina KUR-ia 05 me {lu₂vy}[ERIM]-MEŠ | |
| 17 | ut-ru\d-te i-ba-ši | |
| 18 | šu-nu i-si-ia | |
| 19 | ⸢lu⸣-u i-ṣu-ru\d a-ta-a | |
| 20 | [ina] {⸢uru⸣}gu-za-a-ni | |
| 21 | [il]-⸢li⸣-ku-u-ni | |
| r.e. | ||
| 22 | [nu-ku] {lu₂v}ERIM-MEŠ | |
| 23 | [lu-ra]-mu-u-ni | |
Sources & licences
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