ABL 0529 (P334361)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0529 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334361 |
| 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 [0:3] o 1o 1–o 33 | To the king, my lord: your servant Adad-issiya. Good health to the king, my lord! |
| Obverse [3:10] o 44–o 1010 | As to the merchants about whom the king my lord gave me orders, I met Šarî of Kannu' in Arzuhina. He had 70 horses. |
| Obverse [10:17] o 1111– | I asked him where the rest of his horses were, and he said: "[I have bou]ght 200 horses over there and will b[ring them] (later)." |
| Reverse [1:9] r 22–r 99 | [I also met NN] and ask[ed him] about [the horses]; he said: "We have bought [all of them]; they are on their way towards yo[u ...]." |
| Reverse [9:15] r 1010–r 1515 | I encountered 21 horses and 2 mules of Nabû-eriba of Calah, a subordinate of Sanî, in Arzuhina. |
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\p-ka {1}{d}IM—KI-ia | |
| 3 | lu-u DI-mu a-na LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 4 | ina UGU {lu₂vy}DAM.QAR-MEŠ | |
| 5 | ša\ty LUGAL EN ṭe₂-mu\p | |
| 6 | iš\t-kun-an-ni-ni | |
| 7 | {1}ša₂-ri-i {uru}kan-nu-uʾ-a.a | |
| 8 | ina {uru}ur-zu\t-hi-na | |
| 9 | in₆—ni—ir-ti\t-ia₂ in₆—ni—ir-ti\t-ia₂ | |
| 10 | 70 KUR.RA-MEŠ\m ina ŠU.2-šu₂ [o] | |
| 11 | a-sa-ʾa-al-šu₂ | |
| 12 | {mu}muk re-eh-ti [o] | |
| 13 | KUR.RA-MEŠ-ka a-li-i [o] | |
| 14 | ma-a 02 me KUR.RA-[MEŠ] | |
| 15 | [ma]-a a-ma-⸢ka⸣ | |
| r | ||
| 1 | [a]-⸢si⸣-qi ma-a ⸢ub⸣-[ba-la] | |
| 2 | [x] i ⸢x⸣+[x x x x] | |
| 3 | in₆—ni—⸢ir⸣-[ti-ia₂] in₆—ni—⸢ir⸣-[ti-ia₂] | |
| 4 | TA@v\m UGU [KUR.RA-MEŠ] | |
| 5 | a-sa-ʾa-[al-šu₂] | |
| 6 | ma-a gab\p-bi-[šu₂-nu] | |
| 7 | ni-si-qi\m ma-a ⸢x⸣+[x x] | |
| 8 | in₆—ni—ir-ti\t-i-⸢ka⸣ in₆—ni—ir-ti\t-i-⸢ka⸣ | |
| 9 | i-lak-u-ni | |
| 10 | 21 KUR.RA-MEŠ\m | |
| 11 | 02 {anšed}NUN\m.NA | |
| 12 | ša\ty {1}{d}PA—SU\t | |
| 13 | {uru}kal-ha-a.a | |
| 14 | ša\ty ŠU.2 {1}sa-ni-i | |
| 15 | ina {uru}ur-zu\t-⸢hi-na⸣ | |
| 16 | in₆—ni—ir-ti-ia in₆—ni—ir-ti-ia | |
Sources & licences
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