ABL 0526 (P334359)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0526 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334359 |
| 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, our lord: your servants the city-rulers who are doing the king's work in Milqia. |
| Obverse [5:16] o 66– | As to what the king wrote to us: "Finish your work it while it is supervised" — we will do what the king our lord wrote to us and deliver it to the king our lord, but the work is a great burden on us. |
| Reverse [0:5] r 1r 1–r 55 | What with the kallapus and the trackers, they do not allow us to do the king's work. |
| Reverse [5:12] r 66–r 1212 | We are now petitioning the king our lord to release us so that we can perform the king's work. We shall repay our debt as soon as we are back in our country. |
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\y EN-ni | |
| 2 | {lu₂vy}ARAD-MEŠ-ka | |
| 3 | {lu₂vy}EN—URU-MEŠ {lu₂vy}EN—URU-MEŠ | |
| 4 | ša\dm ina {uru}mil-qi-a | |
| 5 | dul-li LUGAL e-pa-šu₂-u-ni | |
| 6 | ša\m LUGAL EN-ni | |
| 7 | iš-pu\td-ra-na-ši-ni | |
| 8 | ma-a a-di har-da\d-ni | |
| 9 | ma-a ep-ša\dm ga-me-ra | |
| 10 | ša\dm LUGAL EN-ni | |
| 11 | iš-pu\t-ra-na-ši-ni | |
| 12 | ne₂-pa-aš₂ a-na LUGAL | |
| 13 | EN-ni ni-da\d-na | |
| 14 | dul-lu ina UGU-ni | |
| 15 | da-a-na a—dan-niš | |
| r | ||
| 1 | TA IGI {lu₂vy}kal-la-pa-ni | |
| 2 | TA IGI {lu₂vy}UŠ—kib-si-a-ni {lu₂vy}UŠ—kib-si-a-ni | |
| 3 | ⸢la⸣-a u₂-ra-mu-na-ši | |
| 4 | dul-li LUGAL | |
| 5 | la-a ne₂-pa-aš₂ | |
| 6 | u₂-ma-a LUGAL EN-ni | |
| 7 | ni-tah\m-ra lu-ra-mu-na-ši | |
| 8 | ⸢dul⸣-li LUGAL | |
| 9 | ⸢ne₂⸣-pu\t-uš | |
| 10 | ki-ma ina ma-ti\t-ni | |
| 11 | ni-tal-ak | |
| 12 | ha-bu\t-li-ni | |
| 13 | nu-šal-li-me | |
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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