ABL 0611 (P334423)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0611 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334423 |
| 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' | [......] before the king. |
| Obverse [1:8] o 2'2'–o 8'8' | I asked [...] the chariot-driver [of DN] who set it up, "Why are you setting up the table of Šamaš?" He told me as follows: "Aššur has gone outside and come back in again. |
| Obverse [8:17] o 9'9'– | I myself asce[nded] the chariot when it was empty. It kept going [all right], but the ground was narrow and while I paid attention to the chariot's ..., I damaged the rim of the table and the front side of the image. The house truly fell to the ground!" |
| Reverse [6:11] r 77–r 1111 | [In] the days of the king, my lord, your father, they upset the table [of Šamaš in] the same way. The man [who ...] was [pu]nished, and the prefect was [rem]oved (from office). |
| Reverse [11:12] r 1212–r 1212 | [...] ... thither |
| Reverse [12:14] r 1313–r 1414 | [...] this |
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 x x x x]+⸢x⸣ ina IGI LUGAL | |
| 2' | [x x x x x x] {lu₂}mu-kil—{kuš}PA-MEŠ {lu₂}mu-kil—{kuš}PA-MEŠ | |
| 3' | [ša] {d}⸢x x⸣ ša ik-ru-ru-u₂-ni | |
| 4' | [a]-sa-al mu-uk {giš}BANŠUR | |
| 5' | ⸢ša⸣ {d}UTU a-ta-a ta-kar-ra-ra | |
| 6' | ki-i an-ni-i iq-ṭi-bi-a | |
| 7' | ma-a {d}aš-šur a-na qa-ni i-tu-ṣi | |
| 8' | ma-a is-su-hur e-ta-rab | |
| 9' | ma-a a-na-ku {giš}GIGIR ra-qu-te-ša₂ | |
| 10' | ⸢e-te-li⸣ [x x x] ⸢tal⸣-la-ka | |
| r | ||
| 1 | [ma-a] ⸢kaq⸣-qu-ru sa-ni-qi | |
| 2 | ma-a ⸢a-na⸣ {giš}še-er-ni at-tah-rid | |
| 3 | si-ip-pu ša {giš}BANŠUR u₃ pa-ni | |
| 4 | ša ṣa-al-[me] us-sa-am-mi₃-ik | |
| 5 | E₂ ke-e-tu₂ ina UGU kaq-qi-ri | |
| 6 | ⸢in⸣-<$qu$>-tu₂-qu-tu | |
| 7 | [ina ŠA₃] UD-MEŠ-te ša LUGAL be-li₂ AD-ka | |
| 8 | [ki-i] an-ni-im-ma {giš}BANŠUR | |
| 9 | [ša {d}UTU ik]-ta-ar-ru LU₂ | |
| 10 | [ša x x]-mu-u₂-ni | |
| 11 | [hi-ṭu] e-mi₃-di u₃ {lu₂}GAR.KUR {lu₂}GAR.KUR | |
| 12 | [x x x]-li-iu-u am-me-ša₂ | |
| 13 | [x x x] an-ni-iu-u₂ | |
| 14 | [x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ [x]+⸢x⸣ [x]+⸢x⸣ [x] di [x]+⸢x⸣ | |
Sources & licences
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