ABL 0727 (P334516)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0727 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334516 |
| 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 king, my lord: your servant, Dadî. Good health to the king, my lord. May Nabû and Marduk bless the king, my lord. |
| Obverse [5:18] o 66– | Arbailayu and Girittu, the shepherds responsible for the cultic meals, from Luddin-ilu — It has [no]w been seven years [sin]ce they have given sheep [to] the king. [They re]fuse to come in [for the tax col]lection. They do not fear [the king]. They rove about like runaways. |
| Reverse [3:12] r 44– | I have now written to them as follows: "Why do you not fear the king?" Ten men run around with them, draped with weapons, saying: "Whoever comes against us we will cut down with (our) bows." |
| Right [0:3] r.e. 12r.e. 12– | I have now written to the king, my lord. The king, my lord, should c[all] his servants [to account]. |
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 EN-ia | |
| 2 | ARAD-ka {1}da-di-i | |
| 3 | lu DI-mu a-na LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 4 | {d}PA {d}AMAR.UTU a-na LUGAL | |
| 5 | EN-ia lik-ru-bu | |
| 6 | {1}arba-il₃-a-a {1}gi-ri-tu | |
| 7 | {lu₂v}SIPA nap-ti-ni | |
| 8 | {uru}lud-din—DINGIR-a-a | |
| 9 | [an-nu]-rig 07 MU.AN.NA-MEŠ | |
| 10 | [TA] ⸢be₂⸣-et UDU-MEŠ | |
| 11 | [a-na] LUGAL i-de-e-nu-ni | |
| b.e. | ||
| 12 | [šu-nu la] ⸢i⸣-ma-gur₂ | |
| 13 | [a-na pi]-⸢ir⸣-ri | |
| r | ||
| 1 | [la] e-ru-bu | |
| 2 | [LUGAL] la i-pa-lu-hu | |
| 3 | ⸢hal⸣-qu i-du-lu | |
| 4 | u₂-ma-a as-par-šu₂-nu | |
| 5 | mu-uk a-ta-a LUGAL | |
| 6 | la ta-pal-la-ha | |
| 7 | 10 {lu₂v}ERIM-MEŠ is-si-šu₂-nu | |
| 8 | {kuš}til-li₃ ta-lu-lu | |
| 9 | i-du-lu ma-a man-nu | |
| 10 | ša ina UGU-hi-ni il-lak-ni | |
| 11 | ina {giš}BAN ni-ka-ra-ar-šu₂ | |
| r.e. | ||
| 12 | an-nu-rig a-na | |
| 13 | LUGAL EN-ia as-par | |
| e. | ||
| 1 | LUGAL be-li ARAD-MEŠ-šu₂ lu-[ba-ʾi-i] | |
Sources & licences
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