ABL 0867 (P334595)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0867 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334595 |
| 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/saa05 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [1:7] o 2'2'–o 7'7' | [...] are being fed. I have wr[itten ab]out these sheep of the scholars, which came forth from Dur-Yakin; they have entrusted them to the commanders-of-ten to whom the Dur-Yakinites are entering, saying: |
| Obverse [7:15] o 8'8'– | "Appoint two men each from among them to graze them, until your brothers come and give them out." |
| Reverse [1:3] r 22–r 33 | Now that the king gave the command, we shall receive them from all of them. |
| Reverse [3:5] r 44–r 55 | As to the attendant of the treasurer about whom the king, my lord, said: "He should come" — |
| Reverse [5:9] r 66–r 99 | the copper which is being refined by the servants of the magnates, (as well as) the ... are at his disposal, and I have been in Nineveh. |
| Reverse [9:10] r 1010–r 1010 | I have now received him and sent him [to] the king, my lord. |
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' | [x x x x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ | |
| 2' | a-⸢x⸣+[x x] ša\y-ku-lu a-⸢sa⸣-[par ina] UGU-hi | |
| 3' | UDU-MEŠ an-nu-te ša\y {lu₂v}um\d-ma-ni | |
| 4' | ša\y TA@v\m {uru}BAD₃—ia-ki-ni | |
| 5' | u₂-ṣu-ni-ni šu₂-nu a-na {lu₂v}GAL—10-MEŠ-te {lu₂v}GAL—10-MEŠ-te | |
| 6' | ša\y {uru}BAD₃—ia-ki-na-a.a | |
| 7' | ina UGU-hi-šu₂-nu e-rab-u-ni | |
| 8' | ip-taq-du ma-a 02-a.a ERIM-MEŠ | |
| 9' | ina ŠA₃-bi-šu₂-nu pi-iq-da\d | |
| 10' | li\d-ir\d-ʾu-u₂\dm-šu₂-nu | |
| 11' | a-di PAB-MEŠ-ku-nu | |
| b.e. | ||
| 12' | il-lak-u-ni-ni | |
| r | ||
| 1 | i-da\d-nu-ni-šu₂-nu | |
| 2 | u₂-ma-a LUGAL iq-ṭi₂-bi | |
| 3 | TA@v\m IGI gab-bi-šu₂-nu | |
| 4 | ni-mah-har ina UGU {lu₂v}UŠ IGI.DUB\m | |
| 5 | ša\y LUGAL be-li₂ iq-bu-ni | |
| 6 | ma-a lil-li\d-ka URUDU-MEŠ | |
| 7 | ša\y ARAD-MEŠ ša\y LU₂~v-GAL-MEŠ i-ma-su\t-ni | |
| 8 | {giš}qab-li\d-tu₂ ina pa-ni-šu₂ | |
| 9 | a-na-ku ina {uru}ni-nu-a a-na-ku | |
| 10 | [a]-⸢kan⸣-ni at-ta-har-šu₂-ma | |
| 11 | [ina IGI] LUGAL EN-ia u₂-se-bi-la-šu₂ | |
Sources & licences
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