ABL 0581 (P334400)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0581 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334400 |
| 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/saa15 · 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 [Šamaš-belu-uṣur]. Good health to my lord! |
| Obverse [3:8] o 44–o 88 | For the third month (now) I am transporting logs from Argada. I have brought [x] logs to the river bank but have not yet finished (the task). |
| Obverse [8:10] o 99–o 1010 | [...] have been reinforced |
| Reverse [0:5] r 1'1'–r 5'5' | [...] another [body]guard came, saying: "Raise 400 door-beams and haul a threshold stone from Yasubu on your own" — I will execute the work that the king commanded. |
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\p-ka {1}{[d}UTU—EN—PAB] | |
| 3 | lu DI-mu a-⸢na EN⸣-ia₂ | |
| 4 | 03-šu₂ ITI {giš}UR₃-MEŠ | |
| 5 | TA\m ŠA₃ {uru}ar-ga-da | |
| 6 | a-za-bil₂ a-na UGU ID₂ | |
| 7 | [x] {giš}UR₃-MEŠ uq\d-ṭa-ri-bi | |
| 8 | [u₂-di-ni] la u₂-ga-mar | |
| 9 | [x x x]+⸢x⸣ da-nu-nu | |
| 10 | [x x x x]+⸢x⸣ a [x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | {[lu₂v}qur]-bu-te 02-u₂ ⸢i⸣-tal-⸢ka⸣ | |
| 2' | [ma-a] 04 me {giš}ŠU₂.A-MEŠ mu-ut-hu | |
| 3' | ma-a {na₄}I.DIB u₂-di-ka | |
| 4' | TA\m ŠA₃ {kur}ia-su\t-pi šu-du | |
| 5' | dul-lu ša LUGAL i-qa-bu-ni | |
| 6' | le\t-pu-šu | |
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)
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