ABL 1012 (P334674)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 1012 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334674 |
| 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 [0:3] o 1o 1–o 33 | To the king, my lord: your servant Šulmu-beli-lašme. Good health to the king, my lord! |
| Obverse [3:8] o 44–o 88 | As to what the king, [my] l[ord], wrote to me: "[The time for cultivating] the fields has elaps[ed; where is] the yield of the thresh[ing-floor]" — |
| Obverse [8:11] o 99–o 1111 | 53 [......] |
| Reverse [0:1] r 1'1'–r 1'1' | "to [......]." Now [NN], |
| Reverse [1:2] r 2'2'–r 2'2' | the recruitment offi[cer ...] |
| Reverse [2:3] r 3'3'–r 3'3' | ha[s ......] |
| Reverse [3:5] r 4'4'–r 5'5' | neither stored [grain nor ...] |
| Reverse [5:6] r 6'6'–r 6'6' | 30 horses [...] |
| Reverse [6:7] r 7'7'–r 7'7' | of the king, m[y] lord, [...] |
| Reverse [7:8] r 8'8'–r 8'8' | [the royal] bodyguard [...]. |
| Reverse [8:13] r 9'9'– | [N]ow, the king, my lord, [should a]sk Mannu-ki-ahhe, the [roy]al bodyguard who [extra]cted the corn-tax, whether there is any barley (here). |
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 EN-ia | |
| 2 | ARAD-ka {1}DI-mu—EN—la-aš₂-me | |
| 3 | lu DI-mu a-na LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 4 | ina UGU ⸢ša\m⸣ LUGAL ⸢be⸣-[li₂] | |
| 5 | iš-pur-a-ni [ma-a si-min₃] | |
| 6 | {še}NUMUN\y-MEŠ ⸢a⸣-[ra-ši] | |
| 7 | e-te-te-⸢qi\t⸣ [ma-a] | |
| 8 | te-lit ad-⸢ra⸣-[te x x x] | |
| 9 | 53 {lu₂v}[x x x x x] | |
| 10 | u₂-ša₂-[x x x x x] | |
| 11 | [x]+⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [ma]-a a-na [x x x x x] | |
| 2' | u₂-ma-a [x x x x x x] | |
| 3' | {lu₂v}mu-šar-[kis x x x x] | |
| 4' | e-ta-⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x] | |
| 5' | la-a {še}tab-[ku x x x x x] | |
| 6' | 30 {anšed}KUR.RA-MEŠ [x x x] | |
| 7' | ⸢ša⸣ LUGAL EN-⸢ia⸣ [x x x] | |
| 8' | {[lu₂v}qur]-bu-te ⸢i⸣-[x x x x] | |
| 9' | [an]-⸢nu⸣-rig {1}man-nu—GIM—PAB-⸢MEŠ⸣ | |
| 10' | {[lu₂v]}⸢qur⸣-bu-te ša\dm {še}nu-sa-hi\p | |
| 11' | [is]-⸢su⸣-hu-u-ni\d LUGAL EN-i | |
| r.e. | ||
| 12 | [liš]-al\d-šu šum₂\m-mu {<še>}PAD-MEŠ\m | |
| 13 | i-ba-šu₂-u-ni | |
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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