ABL 0532 (P334363)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0532 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334363 |
| 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/saa13 · 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, Nadin-Aššur. Good health to the king, my lord. |
| Obverse [3:18] o 44–o 1818 | As of now, no one is bringing in the first fruits of your land or the one-fifth tax from Barhalzi. I sold your servants in the merchant house, carried away the one-fifth tax, and performed it (the offering). The king should ask the scribes of the governor of Barhalzi as follows: "Why didn't you give the one-fifth tax to Aššur?" Moreover, the king should bear in mind that they are on strike at the expense of your gods. [...] |
| Reverse [0:3] r 1r 1–r 33 | If the king does not punish one scribe, [the others] will not get scared. |
| Reverse [3:10] r 44–r 1010 | This [...: if] a prefect does [not] bring in the one-fifth tax and give it to your temple, the rest of the magnates, observing him, will also go on strike against your temple(s). |
| Reverse [10:12] r 1111–r 1212 | Moreover, the king should bear in mind that his servants have been sold. |
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}SUM-na—aš-šur | |
| 3 | <lu> DI-mu a-na LUGAL be-li₂-ia | |
| 4 | an-nu-rig SAG-MEŠ | |
| 5 | ša KUR-ka ha-mu-su | |
| 6 | ša₂ {uru}bar-hal-zi mi-mi-ni | |
| 7 | la-a na-ṣa ARAD-MEŠ-ka | |
| 8 | ina E₂ {lu₂v}DAM.QAR a-ti-din | |
| 9 | ha-mu-su a-ta-ṣa e-ta-ba-aš₂ | |
| 10 | {lu₂v}A.BA-MEŠ ša {lu₂v}EN.NAM | |
| 11 | ša {uru}bar-hal-zi LUGAL | |
| 12 | li-ša₂-⸢al⸣-šu₂-nu | |
| 13 | ma-a a-ta-a ha-mu-su | |
| 14 | a-na {d}aš-šur la ta-di-na | |
| 15 | ma-a LUGAL lu-u ha-sis | |
| 16 | a-ki-i ba-aṭ-lu | |
| 17 | ina UGU DINGIR-MEŠ-ni-ka | |
| 18 | [i-šak]-⸢ka⸣-nu-u-ni | |
| r | ||
| 1 | ⸢ki⸣-ma šip-ṭu ina {lu₂v}A.BA | |
| 2 | 01-en LUGAL la-a iš-kun | |
| 3 | [re-hu-te] la i-ga-ru-ru | |
| 4 | [x x x]+⸢x⸣ an-ni-u | |
| 5 | [ki-ma {lu₂v]}GAR-nu ha-mu-su | |
| 6 | [la-a] na-ṣa ina E₂—DINGIR-MEŠ-ka E₂—DINGIR-MEŠ-ka | |
| 7 | [la] i-din {lu₂v}GAL-MEŠ | |
| 8 | re-hu-u-te ina ša₂-a-šu₂ | |
| 9 | i-da-gul-šu₂ ba-aṭ-lu | |
| 10 | i-šak-ku-nu ina E₂—DINGIR-MEŠ-ni-ka E₂—DINGIR-MEŠ-ni-ka | |
| 11 | ma-a LUGAL lu-u ha-sis | |
| 12 | a-ki-i ARAD-MEŠ-ni-ka | |
| 13 | ina kas-pi ta-da-nu-u-ni | |
Sources & licences
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