ABL 1015 (P334676)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 1015 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334676 |
| 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 [0:5] o 1o 1–o 55 | [To the king, my lord: your servant Ṭab-ṣill-E]šarra. [Good health to the king], my lord! May [Aššur and M[ullissu bless [the king, my lord]! |
| Obverse [5:13] o 66–o 1313 | [As to the lo]custs [concerning which the king, my lord], wrote to me: "Write where the locusts have laid eggs! They shall fumigate (these areas) with juniper powder. They shall knock them out at the moment of their hatching." |
| Obverse [13:22] o 1414– | Already before the letter of the Palace came to me, I had the following order issued in the [cities] and vi[llage]s: |
| Reverse [3:9] r 44–r 99 | "Fumigate with juniper powder where the [loc]usts have l[aid eggs]!" [Now], we shall knock them out at the moment of their hatching. |
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-ia₂] | |
| 2 | [ARAD-ka {1}DUG₃.GA—ṣil—E₂].⸢ŠAR₂.RA⸣ | |
| 3 | [lu DI-mu a-na LUGAL] EN-ia₂ | |
| 4 | [aš-šur {d]}⸢NIN⸣.LIL₂ | |
| 5 | [a-na LUGAL EN-ia₂] lik-ru\d-bu\tp | |
| 6 | [ina UGU NAM.ERIM]{⸢mušen⸣}MEŠ\m | |
| 7 | [ša LUGAL be-li₂] iš-pur-a-ni | |
| 8 | ma-a šu-pur ina E₂\d NAM.ERIM{mušen}MEŠ\m | |
| 9 | ih-⸢ri⸣-ṭu-u-ni | |
| 10 | [ma]-⸢a⸣ ZID₂ du-pur-a-ni | |
| 11 | [lu]-⸢ka⸣-ṭi-ru\d ma-a | |
| 12 | [ki]-⸢ma⸣ si-man-nu u₂-ṣe-šu₂ | |
| 13 | [lu]-⸢ša₂⸣-bal-ki-tu-šu | |
| 14 | ⸢ki⸣-i u₂-di-ni | |
| 15 | e-gir₂-tu₂ ša\d E₂.GAL | |
| b.e. | ||
| 16 | ina UGU-hi-ia | |
| 17 | la ta-lak-a-ni | |
| r | ||
| 1 | a-sa-par ina ŠA₃-[bi KUR] | |
| 2 | URU-[MEŠ {uru}ŠE]-⸢MEŠ⸣ | |
| 3 | ṭe₃-[mu a-sa]-⸢kan⸣ | |
| 4 | mu\p-⸢uk⸣ [ina E₂ NAM.ERIM]{⸢mušen⸣}MEŠ\m | |
| 5 | ih-[ri-ṭu-u-ni] | |
| 6 | ZID₂ du-⸢pur⸣-a-[ni] | |
| 7 | ka-ṭi-ra [u₂-ma-a] | |
| 8 | si-man-nu u₂-[ṣe]-⸢šu₂⸣ | |
| 9 | nu-u-ša₂-bal-⸢kat₃⸣-šu₂ | |
Sources & licences
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