ABL 0547 (P334372)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0547 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334372 |
| 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 [0:4] o 1o 1–o 44 | [To] the king, [my lo]rd: your servant Ṭab-[ṣill-Ešarra]. Good health to [the king, my lord! May] Aššur and Mullissu [bless the king, my lord!] |
| Obverse [4:9] o 55–o 99 | As to the A[rabs concerning whom the king, my lord] wrote to me: "[Why] do they graze [their sheep and] camel[s in the desert where they must resort to plundering] when hungry?" — |
| Obverse [9:12] o 1010–o 1212 | [Rains have been sc]arce this [year]; ...[......] have been settling in [......]. |
| Obverse [12:21] o 1313– | (As to) what the king, my lord, [wrote] to me: "Now, go to Hinzanu, and let them go and graze with you! There shall be no restrictions from the banks of the Tharthar river up to the land of Suhu!", |
| Reverse [0:7] r 1r 1–r 77 | I will now go to Hinzanu, (but) they (are sure to) leave the territory I am assigning to them, move further downstream and plunder; they pay absolutely no heed to the chief scout I have appointed. |
| Reverse [7:21] r 88– | Let them order the governor of Calah to appoint a eunuch of his in charge of the Arabs under his jurisdiction; they should (then) ask me for a territory where to gra[ze]. All the same, [their] tents should [remain] in the territory of the [governor] of Calah (while) they are grazing in [...... |
| Edge [0:1] e. 1e. 1–e. 1e. 1 | They plunder cities; they never plunder sheep or camels, but they do loot people. |
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\t] ⸢LUGAL EN⸣-[ia] | |
| 2 | ⸢ARAD⸣-ka {1}DUG₃.[GA—ṣil—E₂.ŠAR₂.RA] | |
| 3 | lu DI-mu a-na\t [LUGAL EN-ia] | |
| 4 | aš-šur {d}NIN.LIL₂ [a-na LUGAL EN-ia lik-ru-bu] | |
| 5 | ina UGU {kur}⸢ar⸣-[pa-a.a ša LUGAL EN] | |
| 6 | iš-pur-an-⸢ni⸣ [ma-a a-ta-a UDU-MEŠ-šu₂-nu] | |
| 7 | {anšed}A.AB.BA-[MEŠ-šu₂-nu ina mad-bar] | |
| 8 | i-ra-ʾu-[u x x x x x x] | |
| 9 | ina bu-bu-⸢ti⸣ [i-ha-bu-tu₂ šat-tu₂] | |
| 10 | an-ni-tu₂ A.⸢AN⸣-[MEŠ e]-⸢ṣu⸣ | |
| 11 | ⸢x x⸣ SAG [x x x x]-ia | |
| 12 | ina ŠA₃-bi ⸢x⸣+[x x x]+⸢x⸣ ša₂-ak-nu | |
| 13 | ša LUGAL ⸢EN⸣ [iš-pur]-an-ni | |
| 14 | ma-a an-nu-rig\d a-na\t {uru}hi-in-za-ni | |
| 15 | ta\p-lak ma-a i-si-ka | |
| 16 | lil-li-ku li-ir-ʾu-u | |
| 17 | TA\m ⸢UGU⸣ {id₂}tar-ta\p-ri | |
| b.e. | ||
| 18 | a-du {kur}su-hi | |
| 19 | me-me-ni la-a i-pa-ri-⸢ki⸣ | |
| r | ||
| 1 | an-nu-rig\t a-na-⸢ku⸣ | |
| 2 | a-na\t {kur}hi-in-za-ni ⸢al-lak⸣ | |
| 3 | ta\p-hu-mu ša u₂-ka-la-mu-ša₂-nu-ni | |
| 4 | u₂-ra-mu-u e-ti\t-qu | |
| 5 | u₂\m-sa-ta\p-pu-lu i-hab-bu-tu₂ | |
| 6 | a-na\t {lu₂v}GAL—da-a.a-li-ia {lu₂v}GAL—da-a.a-li-ia {lu₂v}GAL—da-a.a-li-ia | |
| 7 | ša a-pa-qi\t-du-ni la-a-šu₂ | |
| 8 | la-a i-ša₂-me-u a-na\t {lu₂v}EN.NAM | |
| 9 | ša {uru}kal-ha li-⸢qi⸣-bi-u | |
| 10 | {lu₂v}SAG-šu₂ ina pa-an {kur}ar-pa-a.a | |
| 11 | ša qa-ti\t-šu₂ lip-⸢qi-di⸣ | |
| 12 | ta\p-hu-mu [o] liš-ʾu-lu-u-ni | |
| 13 | ina ŠA₃-bi ⸢li⸣-ir-[ʾu-u] | |
| 14 | i-se-niš {tug₂}maš-kan-a-[ti\t-šu₂-nu] | |
| 15 | ina UGU ta\p-hu-me ša {[lu₂v}EN.NAM] | |
| 16 | ša {uru}kal-ha lu-u [ša₂-ak-nu] | |
| 17 | ⸢šu⸣-nu ina ⸢ŠA₃⸣ [x]+⸢x x⸣+[x x] | |
| r.e. | ||
| 18 | li-ir-ʾu-u ⸢x⸣+[x x x] | |
| 19 | [x x x] i-ba-⸢ši⸣ [x x] | |
| 20 | [x x x] ⸢ni⸣ i [x x x] | |
| e. | ||
| 1 | ⸢URU-MEŠ⸣ i-ha-bu-tu₂ la-a-šu₂ UDU-⸢MEŠ {anše}gam-mal⸣-MEŠ | |
| 2 | ⸢la-a⸣ i-ha-bu-tu₂ UN-MEŠ i-ha-bu-tu₂ | |
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