ABL 1019 (P334680)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 1019 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334680 |
| 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/saa15 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:9] o 1'1'–o 9'9' | [about whom the ki]ng, [my] l[ord, wrote t]o me, [NN the bod]yguard has brought out [the ...]s fr[om GN. When] Kur'e-uballiṭ [ca]me to me, [I ga]ve them [x ...], 32 farmers and [x hundred] 20 homers of seed corn. |
| Obverse [9:10] o 10'10'–o 10'10' | [x hundred] 20 homers of seed corn |
| Obverse [10:11] o 11'11'–o 11'11' | [in ad]dition the people of the house [of ...] |
| Obverse [11:13] o 12'12'– | [have] culti[vated ...] |
| Reverse [0:1] r 1r 1–r 1r 1 | [th]at is in [...]. |
| Reverse [1:3] r 22–r 33 | [All told] I have given out 1,100 homers of seed corn. |
| Reverse [3:6] r 44–r 66 | Perhaps the king, my lord, will say: "Why (then) have you cultivated so few [arable field]s?" |
| Reverse [6:8] r 77–r 88 | [...] it is the barley ration [which re]ached [...] |
| Reverse [8:9] r 99–r 99 | [...] for seed corn |
| Reverse [9:12] r 1010–r 1212 | [...] I did not g[ive] |
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 ša] ⸢LUGAL be⸣-[li₂ o] | |
| 2' | [iš-pur]-⸢an⸣-ni [x x (x)] | |
| 3' | {[lu₂v}qur]-bu-te ⸢TA@v\m⸣ [x (x x)] | |
| 4' | [x x]-MEŠ-te u₂-še-⸢ṣa⸣ [o] | |
| 5' | [ki-i] {1}KUR—TI\t.LA | |
| 6' | [il]-li-ku-na-ni | |
| 7' | [x x x] 32 {lu₂v}ENGAR-MEŠ | |
| 8' | [x-me]-20 ANŠE\tm {še}NUMUN-MEŠ | |
| 9' | [a]-⸢ta⸣-na-šu₂-nu | |
| 10' | [x-me]-20 ANŠE\tm {še}NUMUN-MEŠ | |
| 11' | [ina] ⸢UGU⸣ UN-MEŠ ⸢E₂⸣ [x x] | |
| 12' | ⸢e⸣-ta-ra-⸢šu⸣ [x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1 | ⸢ša⸣ ina ŠA₃ [x x x] | |
| 2 | [PAB] 01 lim 01 me ANŠE\tm {šem}[NUMUN]-MEŠ | |
| 3 | ša a-di-nu-ni | |
| 4 | i—su-ri LUGAL EN-i | |
| 5 | [i]-qa-bi ma-a a-ta-a | |
| 6 | {[še}NUMUN]-MEŠ e-ṣe ta-ru-ša₂-a | |
| 7 | [x x x]+⸢x⸣ ši-ti\t {še}PAD-MEŠ | |
| 8 | [ša tak]-šu-du-u-ni | |
| 9 | [x x] ⸢ni⸣ a-na {še}NUMUN-[MEŠ] | |
| 10 | [x x x x] la a-⸢di⸣-[x x] | |
| 11 | [x x x x] ša ⸢x⸣+[x x x] | |
| 12 | [x x x x x] ⸢x⸣ [x x x x] | |
Sources & licences
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