ABL 0871 (P334598)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0871 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334598 |
| 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 [0:9] o 1'1'– | in the town [...] in the middle of [... ...] has taken 40 homers of b[arley] and 200 bales of straw, (as supplies) for two days, referring the matter to the king, |
| Bottom [0:10] b.e. 9'b.e. 9'– | (while) in the village of Diqarate in the desert Aššur-belu-taqqin the prefect has taken 16 homers of barley and a pile of straw and seized farmers of the Palace. |
| Reverse [7:11] r 88–r 1111 | They have borrowed [... and gi]ven [...... |
| Edge [0:1] e. 1e. 1–e. 1e. 1 | they open [......] without the go[vernor]'s permission; the king [my lord should know this]. |
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' | {1}{d⸣}[x x x x] | |
| 2' | ina qa-ab-[si {uru}x x] | |
| 3' | 40 ANŠE\d {⸢še⸣}[PAD-MEŠ] | |
| 4' | 02 me ma-⸢qa⸣-ru-tu₂ | |
| 5' | ša\p {še}IN.NU | |
| 6' | ša 02 UD-mu-MEŠ | |
| 7' | it-ti\t-ši | |
| 8' | ⸢a⸣-bat LUGAL i-zak-ra\t | |
| b.e. | ||
| 9' | {1}aš]-⸢šur⸣—U—LAL {lu₂v}GAR-nu | |
| 10' | [ina] {⸢uru⸣}ŠE—KAM-MEŠ | |
| r | ||
| 1 | [ina] {⸢kur⸣}mu-da-bir | |
| 2 | 16 ANŠE\d {še}PAD-MEŠ | |
| 3 | {še}kur-diš-šu | |
| 4 | ša\p {še}IN.NU | |
| 5 | it\d-ti\t-ši | |
| 6 | {lu₂v}ENGAR-MEŠ E₂.GAL | |
| 7 | u₂-ṣa-bi-it\d | |
| 8 | ⸢a⸣-na pu-u-hi | |
| 9 | [x x na]-ṣu-u-ni | |
| 10 | [x x it]-⸢ta⸣-nu | |
| 11 | [x x x x]+⸢x x⸣+[x] | |
| e. | ||
| 1 | ša la-a {lu₂v}⸢EN⸣.[NAM x x x x] | |
| 2 | ⸢i⸣-pat-ti\t-u ⸢LUGAL⸣ [EN lu u₂-di] | |
Sources & licences
- Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative · CDLI: reuse of catalogue/transliteration data with citation of CDLI; images restricted (not fetched) · Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI), https://cdli.earth/ ; cite CDLI and the P-number
- 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) · ORACC project editions, https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ ; cite the individual project (see texts.extra_json.project)
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