ABL 0630 (P334435)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0630 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334435 |
| 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/saa01 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:5] o 1'1'–o 5'5' | I am [right now] sending Šauška-[..., the ...] of Lilî [...] to the king my lord in the hands of Aššur-nadin-ahhe the [royal bodyguard]. |
| Obverse [5:8] o 6'6'–o 8'8' | As to what the king, my lord, wrote to me: "[...] to the horses of [...] on the 20th of Adar (XII)!" — |
| Obverse [8:24] o 9'9'– | The king my lord knows that the day I arrive in the king my lord's presence, I (must) come back here posthaste! Now, should the team-commanders, be it the prefects or the recruitment officers who are leaving for their levy [come] straight [to me]? Or [will the king (rather) say]: "The [prefects] and re[cruitment officers] should [come] straight to me [...]?" |
| Reverse [7:11] r 88–r 1111 | I [......] from the ci[ty of ......]; right now [......] the river [...... |
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] | |
| 2' | {1}ša\d-uš-ka—[x x x x] | |
| 3' | ša\d {1}li\d-li\d-⸢i⸣ [x x x x] | |
| 4' | ina ŠU.2 {1}aš-šur—SUM\m—⸢PAB⸣-MEŠ {lu₂v}[x x x] | |
| 5' | ina UGU LUGAL EN-ia u₂-se-⸢bi⸣-[la] | |
| 6' | ša\yd LUGAL be-li₂ iš-pur-an-ni [o] | |
| 7' | ma-a UD 20-KAM ša\dm {itim}ŠE [x x] | |
| 8' | ina UGU {anšed}KUR.RA-MEŠ ša\ydm ⸢x⸣+[x x] | |
| 9' | LUGAL be-li₂ u₂-da UD-mu ⸢ša\yd⸣ ina [pa-an] | |
| 10' | LUGAL EN-ia a-qar-ri-bu\p-⸢ni⸣ | |
| 11' | ina kal-li-i a-sa-hu-⸢ra⸣ | |
| 12' | al-la-ka u₂-ma-a | |
| 13' | {lu₂v}GAL—u₂-ra-te {lu₂v}GAL—u₂-ra-te šum₂-mu {lu₂v}GAR-⸢nu⸣-[MEŠ] | |
| 14' | šum₂-mu {lu₂v}mu-šar\m-ki-sa-[a-ni] | |
| b.e. | ||
| 15' | ša\yd ina UGU bat-qi-šu₂-⸢nu⸣ | |
| r | ||
| 1 | il-lak-[u₂-ni] | |
| 2 | le-ti\t-⸢qu⸣-[ni lil-li-ku-ne₂-e] | |
| 3 | u₂-la-a [LUGAL be-li₂ i-qab-bi] | |
| 4 | ma-a {⸢lu₂v⸣}[GAR-nu-MEŠ] | |
| 5 | {lu₂v}mu-[šar-ki-sa-a-ni] | |
| 6 | ina IGI-⸢ia⸣ [x x x x x] | |
| 7 | le-⸢ti\t⸣-[qu x x x x] | |
| 8 | a-na-[x x x x x x] | |
| 9 | TA@v\m {⸢uru⸣}[x x x x x] | |
| 10 | an-nu-⸢rig⸣ [x x x x] | |
| 11 | ID₂ [x x x x x 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
- 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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