ABL 1084 (P334726)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 1084 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334726 |
| 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 [0:4] o 1o 1–o 44 | [To the king, m]y lord: [your servant] Marduk-šarrani. [Good health] to the king, my [lord]! |
| Obverse [4:18] o 55– | [Nabû-...]-iddina the scribe [and NN] sent (word) [concerning] the bulls [of the Lab]dudaeans, [due t]o the chief cook: "[Bring the b]ulls!" [They bro]ught 26 bulls, [which I recei]ved from them. They have (however) not [yet] brought [the res]t of the[ir] bulls. [...] |
| Reverse [0:5] r 1r 1–r 55 | [o]f the tur[n ...] are [o]n [my] neck. I have completely cultivated their arable fields. |
| Reverse [5:13] r 66–r 1313 | Now the king, my lo[rd], should give orders that they bring their remaining 81 bulls, so [I can] give bulls to them and they can break their fallow fields. |
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]}MES—MAN-ni | |
| 3 | [lu-u DI-mu] a-na LUGAL | |
| 4 | [EN]-ia | |
| 5 | [ina UGU] GUD.NITA₂-MEŠ\tp | |
| 6 | [ša {uru}lab]-du\t-du\t-a.a | |
| 7 | [ša a]-na {lu₂vy}GAL—MU {lu₂vy}GAL—MU | |
| 8 | {1}{d}PA]—⸢x⸣—AŠ {lu₂vy}A.BA\t | |
| 9 | [x x x] i-sa-⸢ap⸣-[ru] | |
| 10 | [ma-a GUD].NITA₂-MEŠ [o] | |
| 11 | [bi-la-ni] 26 GUD.NITA₂-MEŠ\pp | |
| 12 | [it-tu]-⸢bi⸣-lu-u-ni | |
| 13 | [at-tah]-⸢ra⸣-šu₂-nu | |
| 14 | [re-eh]-⸢ti⸣ GUD.NITA₂-MEŠ-šu₂-[nu] | |
| 15 | [u₂-di-ni] la na-⸢ṣu⸣-[ni] | |
| 16 | [x x x x] pa nu ⸢x⸣+[x x] | |
| 17 | [x x x x x x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1 | ⸢ša⸣ sa-⸢har⸣ [x x x] | |
| 2 | ⸢ina⸣ li\d-ba\t-⸢ni⸣-[ia] | |
| 3 | {še}NUMUN\d-MEŠ-šu₂-⸢nu⸣ [o] | |
| 4 | a-ta-ra-⸢aš₂⸣ | |
| 5 | ug\td-da\d-⸢mir⸣ | |
| 6 | u₂-ma-a LUGAL ⸢EN⸣ | |
| 7 | ṭe₃-mu liš-⸢kun⸣ | |
| 8 | 81 GUD.NITA₂-MEŠ\p-šu₂-nu | |
| 9 | ⸢ša⸣ re-hu-u-ni | |
| 10 | [lu]-bi-lu-u-ni | |
| 11 | [la]-di\d-na-šu₂-nu | |
| 12 | ⸢kar⸣-ap-hi-šu₂-nu | |
| 13 | ⸢li⸣-hu-ṣu | |
Sources & licences
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