ABL 0546 (P334371)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0546 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334371 |
| 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 [0:4] o 1o 1–o 44 | To the king, [my] lo[rd]: your servant Nabû-šu[mu-iddina]. Good health to the king, [my] lord! May Nabû and Marduk bless the king, my lord! |
| Obverse [4:9] o 55–o 99 | We will give the first shipment that arrives from the household of the magnates to the cavalry. We will then wait for the rest of the shipment. |
| Obverse [9:13] o 1010–o 1313 | The king, my lord, may be asking: "For how many of the cava[lrymen] is the shipment co[ming]?" — it is c[oming] for 50 (separate) households. |
| Obverse [13:16] o 1414–o 1616 | We have given millstones, [household] ute[nsils], and pigs to these 50 cavalrymen [...]. |
| Obverse [16:18] o 1717–o 1818 | Beds, chairs [and ...] remain to [be given]. |
| Obverse [18:19] o 1919–o 1919 | [should the king] say: ["...] |
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}{d}AG—⸢MU⸣—[AŠ] | |
| 3 | lu DI-mu a-na LUGAL EN-[ia] | |
| 4 | {d}AG u {d}AMAR.UTU a-na LUGAL EN-ia₂ | |
| 5 | lik-ru-bu ša₂-az-bu-us-su | |
| 6 | ša E₂ {lu₂v}GAL-MEŠ pa-ni-tu-ma | |
| 7 | ša tal-la-kan-ni a-na {lu₂v}ša₂—BAD-HAL-MEŠ | |
| 8 | ni-da-an pa-an re-eh-ti | |
| 9 | ša₂-az-bu-us-si ni-da-gal | |
| 10 | i—su-ri LUGAL be-li₂ i-qa-bi | |
| 11 | ma-a ša ki ma-ṣi ša {lu₂v}⸢BAD⸣-[HAL-MEŠ] | |
| 12 | ša₂-az-bu-us-su tal-⸢la⸣-[ka] | |
| 13 | ša 50 E₂-MEŠ tal-[la-ka] | |
| 14 | a-na 50 {lu₂v}ša—BAD-HAL-MEŠ | |
| 15 | an-nu-te {na₄}HAR-MEŠ a-⸢nu⸣-[ut E₂] | |
| 16 | ŠAH-MEŠ ni-ta-na-[šu-nu x x] | |
| 17 | {giš}NA₂-MEŠ {giš}GU.ZA-⸢MEŠ⸣ [x x x] | |
| 18 | ri-ha a-[na ta-da-ni] | |
| 19 | i-qa-[bi x x x x x x] | |
| 20 | [x x]+⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x x] | |
Sources & licences
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