ABL 0684 (P334482)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0684 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334482 |
| 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 [0:3] o 1o 1–o 33 | To the king, my lord: your servant Nabû-šumu-iddina. [The very best of] health to the king, my lord! |
| Reverse [0:1] r 1r 1–r 1r 1 | [x] Kushite [horses]; |
| Reverse [1:3] r 22–r 33 | 39 cavalry mounts from the commander-in-chief; |
| Reverse [3:5] r 44–r 55 | 47 cavalry mounts from Mazamua: |
| Reverse [5:7] r 66–r 77 | a total of 86 cavalry mounts — |
| Reverse [7:10] r 88–r 1010 | 103 horses in all — have come in today. |
| Reverse [10:11] r 1111–r 1111 | 23rd day. |
| Reverse [11:12] r 1212–r 1212 | Grand total 348. |
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 | |
| r | ||
| 1 | {kur}ku-sa-a-a | |
| 2 | 39 KUR-MEŠ ša BAD-HAL-li | |
| 3 | ša {lu₂v}tur-tan-ni | |
| 4 | 47 KUR-MEŠ ša BAD-HAL-li | |
| 5 | ša {kur}za-mu-a | |
| 6 | PAB 86 {anše}KUR.RA-MEŠ | |
| 7 | ša BAD-HAL-li | |
| 8 | PAB 01 me 03 {anše}KUR.RA-MEŠ | |
| 9 | UD-mu an-ni-u | |
| 10 | e-tar-bu-u-ni | |
| 11 | UD 23 | |
| 12 | PAB 03 me 48 | |
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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