ABL 0557 (P334382)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0557 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334382 |
| 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/saa16 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:6] o 1o 1–o 66 | [To the king, my lord]: your [servant PN], the scribe who is in the service of [...], the cohort of [...]. May Nabû (and) Marduk bless the [king], my lord. |
| Obverse [6:13] o 77–o 1313 | The king, my lord, appointed us as ... Now Nabû-šumu-iddina, my associate, is a criminal. He has wrecked the servants of the king outside and inside the city, (and) is utilizing the assigned quotas of the king. |
| Obverse [13:20] o 1414– | In response to what I said — "Why [are you wrecking the servants of the king and using the king's] assigned quotas?" — he answered: "[I ...] the corn heap [of ...] (and) the corn heap [of ...]". |
| Reverse [4:11] r 55–r 1111 | May the king, my lord, question the prefects and cohort commanders, and establish that I am right in this dispute with him. [I have liste]d the debts of the scr[ibe]s on a writing-board. |
| Reverse [11:12] r 1212–r 1212 | Of the writi[ng board ...] |
| Reverse [12:14] r 1313–r 1414 | the silver of the serv[ants of the king ...] |
| Edge [0:1] e. 1e. 1–e. 1e. 1 | He is plotting against my life [...] |
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 be-li-ia] | |
| 2 | [ARAD]-ka {1}{d}[x x x x] | |
| 3 | {lu₂v}A.BA ša ina IGI [x x x] | |
| 4 | ki-ṣir ša ⸢x⸣+[x x x] | |
| 5 | {d}PA {d}AMAR.UTU a-⸢na⸣ [LUGAL] | |
| 6 | be-li-ia lik-ru-bu | |
| 7 | LUGAL be-li a-ki tak-mis | |
| 8 | ip-taq-da-na-a-ši | |
| 9 | u₂-ma-a {1}{d}PA—MU—AŠ | |
| 10 | ša i-si-ia pa-ri-ṣu šu-u₂ | |
| 11 | ARAD-MEŠ ša LUGAL ša A.ŠA₃ | |
| 12 | ša bir-te URU uh-ta-li-qi | |
| 13 | EŠ₂-iš-QAR-MEŠ ša LUGAL KU₂ | |
| 14 | UGU ša a-qa-bu-u-ni | |
| 15 | nu-uk a-ta-a | |
| r | ||
| 1 | ⸢ARAD-MEŠ⸣ [ša LUGAL tu-hal-la-qa] | |
| 2 | EŠ₂.QAR-MEŠ [ša LUGAL KU₂] | |
| 3 | ma-a ta-ra-am bat-⸢x⸣+[x x x] | |
| 4 | ma-a ta-ra-am [x x x] | |
| 5 | a-na {lu₂}GAR-nu-MEŠ a-na {⸢lu₂}<GAL>—ki⸣-ṣir-MEŠ {⸢lu₂}<GAL>—ki⸣-ṣir-MEŠ | |
| 6 | LUGAL be-li liš-al-šu₂-nu | |
| 7 | ina UGU DUG₄.DUG₄ an-ni-i | |
| 8 | LUGAL be-li i-se-e-šu₂ | |
| 9 | lu-ki-na-a-ni hi-bil-a-te-šu₂-nu | |
| 10 | ša {lu₂}DUB.[SAR]-MEŠ | |
| 11 | ina {giš}le-ʾi [a-si]-⸢dir⸣ | |
| 12 | ša {giš}⸢le⸣-[ʾi x x x x x] | |
| 13 | KUG.UD ša ⸢ARAD⸣-[MEŠ ša LUGAL x x x] | |
| 14 | [x x x]+⸢x x⸣+[x x x x x x] | |
| e. | ||
| 1 | ina UGU ZI-MEŠ-ia i-da-bu-bu [x x] | |
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
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