ABL 0601 (P334414)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0601 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334414 |
| 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 [0:6] o 1o 1–o 66 | [To the king, my lord: your servant Nabû-šumu-iddina. The very best of health to the king, my lord! May] Nabû [and Marduk bless the king], my lord! |
| Obverse [6:7] o 77–o 77 | 32 hors[es], |
| Obverse [7:9] o 88–o 99 | 4 Kush[ite] hors[es]: |
| Obverse [9:11] o 1010–o 1111 | 36 hors[es] trained to the yoke in all; |
| Obverse [11:12] o 1212–o 1212 | 12 cavalry mounts, |
| Obverse [12:13] o 1313–o 1313 | 4 mules: |
| Obverse [13:14] o 1414–o 1414 | 52 in all from Arpad |
| Obverse [14:16] o 1515–o 1616 | 32 Kushite horses, |
| Obverse [16:19] o 1717– | 7 ...-horses of Kushite stock: |
| Reverse [0:2] r 1r 1–r 22 | 39 [ho]rses in all from [...]; |
| Reverse [2:3] r 33–r 33 | 40 [......], |
| Reverse [4:5] r 55–r 55 | 60 in all [from ......] — |
| Reverse [6:7] r 77–r 77 | ho[rses ...] |
| Reverse [7:10] r 88– | 10 mu[les ...] have come in [today]. Ditto [...]. |
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-li₂-ia] | |
| 2 | [ARAD-ka {1}{d}AG—MU—AŠ] | |
| 3 | [lu DI-mu a-na LUGAL be-li₂-ia] | |
| 4 | [a—dan-niš a—dan-niš] | |
| 5 | {d}AG {d}[AMAR.UTU a-na LUGAL] | |
| 6 | be-li₂-⸢ia⸣ [lik-ru-bu] | |
| 7 | 32 {anše}KUR.[RA-MEŠ] | |
| 8 | 04 {anše}KUR.⸢RA⸣-[MEŠ] | |
| 9 | ša {kur}ku-sa-[a-a] | |
| 10 | PAB 36 {anše}KUR.[RA-MEŠ] | |
| 11 | ša ni-i-ri | |
| 12 | 12 {anše}KUR.RA-MEŠ BAD-HAL | |
| 13 | 04 {anše}ku-din | |
| 14 | PAB 52 {uru}ar-pad-du | |
| 15 | 32 {anše}KUR.RA-MEŠ | |
| 16 | {kur}ku-sa-a-a | |
| 17 | 07 {anše}KUR.RA ṣi-ib-te | |
| 18 | ša {kur}ku-sa-a-a | |
| r | ||
| 1 | PAB 39 {[anše]}KUR.RA-MEŠ | |
| 2 | ša [x x x x x x] | |
| 3 | 40 [x x x x x x] | |
| 4 | ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x x] | |
| 5 | PAB 600+[x x x x x x x] | |
| 6 | ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x x] | |
| 7 | {⸢anše⸣}[x x x x x x] | |
| 8 | 10 {⸢anše⸣}[x x x x x] | |
| 9 | [UD-mu an-ni-u] | |
| e. | ||
| 1 | e-tar-bu-u₂-ni [x x] | |
Sources & licences
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