ABL 0843 (P334588)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0843 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334588 |
| 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]: yo[ur servant] Tariba-Issar. [Good he]alth to the king, my lord! |
| Obverse [3:19] o 44– | [I] stood [alongside] the king's road, [in fron]t of the gardens, but the king did not pay attention to me, speaking as he was with Raṣappai. I went to the city of Adian and spoke with the rab mūgi officer, but nobody came to greet me so I became scared. |
| Reverse [3:17] r 44– | Now, I have collected 500 homers (= 100,000 litres) of barley in the city of Kilizi, and would like to deliver it. If the king my lord commands: "Collect barley for three palaces," I will collect it in Adian and Arbela as well. |
| Edge [0:2] e. 1e. 1–e. 22 | The barley has not been piled up; they [......], I [......] Ṣilli-Bel [......] |
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-ia₂] | |
| 2 | [ARAD]-⸢ka⸣ {1}ta-⸢ri-ba⸣—15 | |
| 3 | [lu DI]-mu a-na\d MAN EN-ia | |
| 4 | [ina UŠ] KASKAL ša\dm LUGAL | |
| 5 | [pa]-⸢an⸣ {giš}SAR-MEŠ\m | |
| 6 | [a]-ti\t-te-zi LUGAL | |
| 7 | uz\d-nu la iš-ku-na | |
| 8 | TA@v\m {1}ra-ṣa-pa-a.a | |
| 9 | i-da-bu-ub | |
| 10 | a-na\d {uru}EN-an | |
| 11 | a-ta-al-ka | |
| 12 | pa-an {lu₂v}GAL—mu-gi {lu₂v}GAL—mu-gi | |
| b.e. | ||
| 13 | aq-ṭi₂-bi | |
| 14 | me-me-ni | |
| r | ||
| 1 | la u₂-ṣi-a | |
| 2 | DI-mu la i-qi₂-bi-a | |
| 3 | a-pa-ta-lah₃ | |
| 4 | an-nu-rig | |
| 5 | 05 me {še}PAD-MEŠ\m | |
| 6 | ina {uru}kal₃-zi | |
| 7 | up-ta-hi-ir la-di\d-ni | |
| 8 | šum₂\m-ma LUGAL i-qab-bi | |
| 9 | ma-a {še}PAD-MEŠ | |
| 10 | ša\dm 03 E₂.GAL-MEŠ\m | |
| 11 | pa-hi-ir ina {uru}EN-an | |
| 12 | lu-pa-hi-ri | |
| 13 | [ina] {uru}arba-il₃ | |
| r.e. | ||
| 14 | [lu]-pa-hi-ri | |
| 15 | [x x x x] | |
| e. | ||
| 1 | {še}PAD-MEŠ\m la ka-ra-[at x x x x] | |
| 2 | šu-nu ana-ku u₂-⸢x⸣+[x x x x x] | |
| 3 | {1}GIŠ.MI—EN ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x] | |
Sources & licences
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