ABL 0726 (P334515)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0726 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334515 |
| 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 [0:5] o 1o 1–o 55 | [To the ki]ng, [my] lord: your servant, Dadî. [Go]od health to the king, [my] lord. May Nabû and Marduk bless the king, my lord. |
| Obverse [5:11] o 66–o 1111 | From the beginning of the month until now the shepherd responsible for the cultic meals has refused to go for his tax collection. I myself am buying sheep from the market (lit. 'The city gate') and fattening them. |
| Obverse [11:18] o 1212– | The shepherd who serves in the house of the [harus]pices also did [not] come [for the tax collection. ...he has not t]aken the sheep [...], therefore I [cannot] give them. |
| Reverse [1:6] r 22–r 66 | (If) these people, who are Assyr[ians], refuse to fear the [king], my lord, how will foreign[ers] behave [towards] the king, my lord? |
| Reverse [6:14] r 77– | [Per]haps the king, my lord, [will s]ay: "Where [are th]ey from?" — Arbailaiu and Šamaš-abu-uṣur are from Luddin-ilu; [...]-aplu-eriba is from Salammê. [The ki]ng, my lord, [should call] his servants to account. Otherwise [......] |
| Right [0:1] r.e. 14r.e. 14–r.e. 14r.e. 14 | (r.e. 14) (Rest destroyed) |
Transliteration (ATF)
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| Line | ATF | Machine English (draft) |
|---|---|---|
| o | ||
| 1 | a-[na] LUGAL EN-[ia] | |
| 2 | ARAD-ka {1}da-di-[i] | |
| 3 | [lu] DI-mu a-na LUGAL EN-[ia] | |
| 4 | {[d]}PA {d}MES a-na LUGAL | |
| 5 | ⸢EN⸣-ia lik-ru-bu | |
| 6 | ⸢TA@v⸣ SAG.DU ITI a-du a-kan-ni | |
| 7 | {⸢lu₂v⸣}SIPA nap-ti-ni a-na | |
| 8 | ⸢pi⸣-ri-šu₂ la-a i-ma-gur₂ | |
| 9 | ⸢la⸣ i-la-ak a-na-ku | |
| 10 | UDU-MEŠ TA@v ŠA₃-bi KA₂.GAL | |
| 11 | a-la-qi u₂-ša₂-kal | |
| 12 | {lu₂v}SIPA ša ina E₂ DUMU-MEŠ | |
| 13 | [HAL]-MEŠ-ni i-za-zu-u-ni | |
| b.e. | ||
| 14 | [a-na pi-ri la] i-li-ka-ma | |
| 15 | [x x x x]-ma UDU-MEŠ | |
| r | ||
| 1 | [x x la] ⸢il⸣-qi ina ŠA₃-bi | |
| 2 | [la] a-dan{an} an-nu-ti | |
| 3 | [DUMU-MEŠ] ⸢KUR⸣—aš-šur-ma la-a i-ma-gur₂ | |
| 4 | [LUGAL] ⸢be⸣-li la i-pa-lu-hu | |
| 5 | [DUMU-MEŠ] KUR—KUR₂ KUR—KUR₂ a-ke-e | |
| 6 | [a-na] LUGAL EN-ia i-lu-ku | |
| 7 | [is]—⸢su⸣-ri LUGAL be-li | |
| 8 | [i-qa]-⸢bi⸣ ma-a TA@v a-a-ak | |
| 9 | [šu]-⸢nu⸣ {1}arba-il₃-a-a | |
| 10 | {1}{d]}⸢UTU⸣—AD—PAB ša {uru}lud-din—DINGIR | |
| 11 | {1}{d}x]—A—SU ša {uru}sa-lam-me-e | |
| 12 | ⸢LUGAL⸣ be-li ARAD-MEŠ-šu₂ | |
| 13 | [lu]-⸢ba⸣-ʾi u₂-la-a | |
| r.e. | ||
| 14 | [x x]-hu-ti ⸢x⸣+[x x]+⸢x⸣ pa | |
| 15 | [x x x] mu u [x x x] | |
Sources & licences
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