ABL 0910 (P334621)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0910 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334621 |
| 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 Nabû-duri-uṣur, my lord: your servant Rimutte. Good health to my lord! |
| Obverse [3:9] o 44–o 99 | They wrote to me from the Palace: "Write down all the locusts that you collect and all that you kill, and send (the information) to the Palace!" Now then I am writing it down and sending it to my lord. |
| Obverse [9:12] o 1010–o 1212 | [x] homers (at) the city of Apku including its villages, [...]... as well as [...] the village ......[...]; |
| Obverse [12:14] o 1313–o 1414 | 15 homers (= 3,000 litres) (at) the city of [...]banu [including its villages; x] homers (at) the city of Ṭabtaia [...... |
| Reverse [0:5] r 11–r 55 | ......] between [......]. When they were few, we collected them, [...] hit them with a seah measure and measured them with it; when they became oppressing, we just killed them in the middle of the field. |
| Reverse [5:7] r 66–r 77 | Let my lord make this known to the palace. I and Ilu-iqbi killed them together. |
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\y {1}{d}PA—BAD₃—PAB EN-ia | |
| 2 | ARAD-ka {1}ri-mu-te | |
| 3 | lu DI\d-mu a-na EN-ia | |
| 4 | TA@v\m ŠA₃ E₂.GAL i-sa-par-u-ni | |
| 5 | ma-a er-bi-u₂\m am\p—mar te-si-pa-ni | |
| 6 | am—mar ta-du-ka-ni šu-ṭur-ra | |
| 7 | ina E₂.GAL še-bi-la-ni | |
| 8 | ⸢u₂⸣-ma-a an-nu-rig\t a-sa-ṭa\d-ra | |
| 9 | [ina] ⸢UGU⸣-hi EN-ia u₂\m-se-bi-la | |
| 10 | [x] ⸢ANŠE⸣ {uru}ap-ku a-di\d {uru}ŠE-MEŠ-ni-šu₂ | |
| 11 | [x x x]+⸢x⸣-ṣi-ni i-se-niš | |
| 12 | [x ANŠE] {uru}ŠE 01 a-na\y-ku 1 AN | |
| 13 | [x x x]-⸢ku⸣-u-ni 15 ANŠE {uru}⸢x⸣-ba-nu | |
| 14 | [a-di {uru}ŠE-MEŠ-šu₂ x] ⸢ANŠE⸣ {uru}DUG₃.⸢GA-ta⸣-ia | |
| r | ||
| 1 | [x x x x x x]-la bir-⸢ti⸣ [x x] | |
| 2 | [x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ a-ki QAL₃-MEŠ ni-te-si-pi | |
| 3 | [x x x]+⸢x⸣ ina ŠA₃ {giš}BAN₂ nu-ta-hi-ṣi | |
| 4 | [ina ŠA₃]-bi ni-in-ta-da\d-da\d | |
| 5 | [a]-ki i-di\d-iʾ-nu-u-ni ina MURUB₄\m A.QAR-ma | |
| 6 | ⸢ni⸣-du-ka EN ina E₂.GAL | |
| 7 | lu-ša₂-aš₂-me a-na\y-ku {1}DINGIR—iq-bi | |
| 8 | i-sa-he-iš\t ni-du-ka | |
Sources & licences
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