ABL 0814 (P334568)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0814 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334568 |
| 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 [0:3] o 1o 1–o 33 | To the king, my lord: your servant Nabû-dammiq. Good health to the king, my lord! |
| Obverse [3:10] o 44–o 1010 | As to what the king, my lord, wrote [to me]: "Go straight away to Nemed-Ištar, and when the time is right for extracting cedar and cypress saplings, [let] the Chief Confectioner [...... |
| Reverse [0:2] r 1'1'–r 2'2' | [Adad-ib]ni has made the seeds ready, and he has also equipped the men. |
| Reverse [2:10] r 3'3'–r 10'10' | Now, if the king my lord commands, I will come and perform the ablution ritual, so when the Chief Confectioner comes, I (can) go with him, and we shall pull up and bring the cedars and cypresses. Whatever the king my lord commands. |
| Reverse [10:17] r 11'11'– | Furthermore, Tu'[...] told me: "You are to bring [...] apple trees to [...; ......] is stealing saplings of pomegranate trees [......]." I am sen[ding them/him over] right now. |
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\td LUGAL ⸢EN-a⸣ | |
| 2 | ARAD-ka {1}{d}PA—⸢SIG₅⸣-iq | |
| 3 | ⸢lu DI⸣-mu a-na\td LUGAL EN-a | |
| 4 | ⸢ša\ym⸣ LUGAL EN iš-pur-⸢an⸣-[ni] | |
| 5 | ma-a a-na\td {uru}ne₂-med—{d}15 | |
| 6 | e-ti\t-iq a-lik | |
| 7 | ⸢ma-a⸣ ki-ma si-mi₃-in | |
| 8 | na\td-sa-hi ša\tym {giš}ziq-pi | |
| 9 | ša\tym {giš}ERIN {giš}ŠUR\p.MAN | |
| 10 | [x x x x] {⸢lu₂v⸣}[GAL]—SUM.NINDA {⸢lu₂v⸣}[GAL]—SUM.NINDA | |
| r | ||
| 1' | {1}IM]—⸢DU₃⸣ NUMUN\d-MEŠ ⸢u₂⸣-sa-ṣa-⸢bit⸣ | |
| 2' | ERIM-MEŠ\m u₂-sa-ṣa-bit-ma | |
| 3' | u₂-ma-a šum₂-mu LUGAL EN i-qa-⸢bi⸣ | |
| 4' | lal-li\d-ka E₂—rim-ki E₂—rim-ki | |
| 5' | lu-še-ti\t-qi ki-ma | |
| 6' | {lu₂v}GAL—SUM.NINDA {lu₂v}GAL—SUM.NINDA ⸢il⸣-la-ka | |
| 7' | i-si-šu₂-ma al-la-ka | |
| 8' | {giš}ERIN {giš}ŠUR\p.MAN | |
| 9' | ni-na\td-sa-ha ⸢nu⸣-ba-la | |
| 10' | mi₃-ni ša\tym LUGAL ⸢EN⸣ i-qa-bu-ni | |
| 11' | u₃ {1}tu\tt-⸢x⸣+[x x x]+⸢x⸣ | |
| 12' | iq-ṭi₂-bi-a ma-[a x x] | |
| r.e. | ||
| 13 | {giš}HAŠHUR a-⸢na\t⸣ [x x] | |
| 14 | tu-ba-⸢la⸣ [x x] | |
| e. | ||
| 1 | [x x x x x] ⸢u₃⸣ {giš}ziq-pi ša\ym {giš}nu-ur₂-me | |
| 2 | [x x x x x]-MEŠ i-hab-bat an-nu-rig u₂-⸢še⸣-[x x] | |
Sources & licences
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