ABL 0555 (P334380)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0555 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334380 |
| 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 [0:1] o 1'1'–o 1'1' | "Let [...] be [...]ed from Ešar[ra]!" |
| Obverse [1:8] o 2'2'–o 8'8' | I confirmed the king's order, and gave (what was due) to the king. Now then, Nergal-belu-uṣur, the chief cook, can report on me. The king's order is now fixed in my mouth, and I keep the king's treaty. |
| Obverse [8:20] o 9'9'– | Binunî, the priest of Ea-šarru, stands in the middle of the Aššur temple, and says to the chariot knight of Aššur: "Why does a chariot knight [...] the chariots [in thi]s way? [If] within 10 days I have not destroyed your [...] from the temple of Aššur — what else?" |
| Reverse [2:6] r 33–r 66 | Let the king ask (about it). A young man who caught the tail of a lion sank in the river, but the one who caught the tail of a fox was rescued. |
| Reverse [6:9] r 77–r 99 | He has silver at his disposal and trusts in his gold; but I trust in the king, my lord. |
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' | [x x x]+⸢x TA⸣ E₂.ŠAR₂.[RA] | |
| 2' | ⸢lu x⸣+[x]-⸢te⸣-te a-bat LUGAL | |
| 3' | uk-te-en a-na LUGAL a-ti-din | |
| 4' | an-nu-rig {1}{d}MAŠ.MAŠ—EN—PAB | |
| 5' | {lu₂}GAL—MU {lu₂}GAL—MU EN—ṭe₃-me-ia EN—ṭe₃-me-ia | |
| 6' | u₂-ma-a a-bat LUGAL kun-tu₂ | |
| 7' | ina pi-ia EN—a-de-e EN—a-de-e | |
| 8' | ša LUGAL a-na-ku | |
| 9' | {1}bi-nu-ni-i {lu₂v}SANGA ša₂ {d}60—MAN | |
| 10' | ina qab-si E₂—{d}aš-šur | |
| 11' | i-za-az a-na {lu₂v}DUMU—SIG₅ {lu₂v}DUMU—SIG₅ | |
| 12' | ša aš-šur ma-a {giš}GIGIR-MEŠ | |
| 13 | a-na mi₃-ni {lu₂v}DUMU—SIG₅ {lu₂v}DUMU—SIG₅ | |
| b.e. | ||
| 14' | [a-ki] ⸢an⸣-ni-ma | |
| 15' | [ma-a šum-ma] ⸢a-di⸣ 10 UD-MEŠ | |
| 16' | [x]+⸢x⸣ pu ⸢x⸣+[x x]+⸢x⸣-ku-nu | |
| r | ||
| 1 | TA@v E₂—aš-šur la u₂-hal-liq | |
| 2 | ma-a mi₃-nu i-hur | |
| 3 | LUGAL liš-al GURUŠ ša₂ si-bat | |
| 4 | ne₂-ši iṣ-bat-u-ni ina ID₂ | |
| 5 | iṭ-ṭu-bu ša₂ si-bat še-li-bi | |
| 6 | iṣ-bat-u-ni u₂-se-zib | |
| 7 | šu-u₂ ina UGU KUG.UD-MEŠ bi-⸢lu⸣ | |
| 8 | ina UGU KUG.GI-MEŠ-šu ta-ku-lu | |
| 9 | an-nu-ku ina UGU-hi LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 10 | ta-ku-la-ka | |
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)
- electronic Babylonian Library (eBL), LMU Munich · MIT (eBL Zenodo dataset); platform terms unverified · electronic Babylonian Library (eBL), LMU Munich, https://www.ebl.lmu.de/ ; Zenodo dataset (MIT)
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