ABL 1068 (P334713)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 1068 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334713 |
| 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 Na[bû-hamatua]. Good health to [the king, my lord]! |
| Obverse [3:4] o 44–o 44 | The for[ts] of the king, [my] lord, are well. |
| Obverse [4:10] o 55–o 1010 | [NN], a te[am] commander, br[ought me a letter] from the govern[or ...], saying: "[......] Aššur-[......] |
| Reverse [0:1] r 1r 1–r 1r 1 | The king, my lord, should k[now] (this). |
| Reverse [1:6] r 22–r 66 | The king, my lord, should not say: "He is a negligent servant; he does not do (his) work." |
| Reverse [6:11] r 77–r 1111 | I drive the servants of the king, my lord, day and night; they are glazing kiln-[fired bricks] all day long [...] and bringing them into [...]. |
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}{d}⸢PA⸣—[ha-mat-u-a] | |
| 3 | lu-u DI-mu\p a-na [LUGAL EN-ia] | |
| 4 | DI-mu a-na {uru}HAL.⸢ṢU⸣-[MEŠ] | |
| 5 | ša\dy LUGAL EN-[ia x x x x] | |
| 6 | {lu₂v}GAL—⸢u₂-ra⸣-[te {lu₂v}GAL—⸢u₂-ra⸣-[te x x x] | |
| 7 | TA@v\m {lu₂v}⸢EN.NAM⸣ [x x x x] | |
| 8 | ⸢uq-ṭar⸣-[ri-ba] | |
| 9 | ma-a ⸢pa-x⸣+[x x x x x] | |
| 10 | {1}⸢aš-šur—x⸣+[x x x x x] | |
| 11 | [x x x x x x x] | |
| b.e. | ||
| 12 | [x x x x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1 | LUGAL EN lu-u u₂\m-[di] | |
| 2 | LUGAL EN lu-u la-[a] | |
| 3 | i-qab\p-bi ma-a {lu₂v}ARAD [o] | |
| 4 | še-e-ṭu šu₂-u₂\m ma-a | |
| 5 | dul-lu la-a e-pa-aš₂ | |
| 6 | {lu₂v}ARAD-MEŠ\m ša\dym LUGAL EN-ia₂ | |
| 7 | MI u₃ kal ⸢UD⸣-[mu o] | |
| 8 | a-ra-di e-⸢bir⸣-[tu₂] | |
| 9 | ina kal UD-mu DI-⸢x x⸣ | |
| 10 | i-ša₂-hu-ṭu ina ⸢ŠA₃⸣ [x x] | |
| 11 | u₂\m-qa-ru-⸢bu⸣ [o] | |
Sources & licences
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