ABL 1101 (P334737)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 1101 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334737 |
| 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/saa16 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:8] o 1o 1–o 88 | To the king, our lord: your servants Nabû-tukulti, Nabû-šumu-lešir (and) Mutakkil-Adad. Good health to the king, our lord! May Aššur (and) Šamaš bless the king, our lord. |
| Obverse [8:22] o 99– | As to what the king, our lord, wrote to us: "I have ordered the magnates to do justice to you" — we have stood before them, but they have refused to render justice to the household of their lord. They have [s]old [all the servant]s of the crown prince for money and [finis]hed them up. |
| Reverse [4:5] r 55–r 55 | [The king], our lord, |
| Reverse [5:6] r 66–r 66 | [...] there are |
| Reverse [6:7] r 77–r 77 | [...] we got scared |
| Reverse [7:8] r 88–r 88 | [...] the king will hear |
| Reverse [9:10] r 1010–r 1010 | [......] for money |
| Reverse [11:12] r 1212–r 1212 | [...] our lawsuit |
| Reverse [12:13] r 1313–r 1313 | [...] concerning |
| Reverse [13:14] r 1414–r 1414 | [...] the aṣūdu-dish |
| Reverse [14:16] r 1515–r 1616 | [...] there is |
| Right [1:2] r.e. 1818–r.e. 1818 | performs [...] |
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 BE-ni | |
| 2 | ARAD-MEŠ-ni-ka | |
| 3 | {1}{d}PA—tukul-ti | |
| 4 | {1}{d}PA—MU—GIŠ | |
| 5 | {1}mu-tak-kil—{d}IM | |
| 6 | lu-u DI-mu a-na LUGAL BE-ni | |
| 7 | aš-šur {d}ša₂-maš a-na LUGAL | |
| 8 | BE-ni lik-ru-bu | |
| 9 | ša LUGAL BE-ni iš-pur-an-na-ši-ni | |
| 10 | ma-a a-na {lu₂v}GAL-MEŠ | |
| 11 | ṭe₃-e-mu as-sa-kan | |
| 12 | ma-a de-en-ku-nu | |
| 13 | ep-pu-šu₂ ni-ti-it-zi | |
| 14 | [ina] pa-ni-šu₂-nu la i-ma-gur₂ | |
| 15 | de-e-nu ša E₂—EN-ME-šu₂-nu E₂—EN-ME-šu₂-nu | |
| b.e. | ||
| 16 | [la] e-pu-šu₂ | |
| r | ||
| 1 | [ARAD]-⸢MEŠ⸣ ša DUMU—LUGAL DUMU—LUGAL | |
| 2 | [DU₃]-šu₂-nu ina kas-pi | |
| 3 | [it]-⸢ta⸣-an-nu | |
| 4 | [ug]-⸢dam⸣-mi₃-ru | |
| 5 | [LUGAL] BE-ni | |
| 6 | [x x x]+⸢x⸣ i-ba-šu₂-ni | |
| 7 | [x x x]+⸢x⸣ ni-ip-ta-lah₃ | |
| 8 | [x x x]+⸢x⸣ LUGAL i-šam-me | |
| 9 | [x x x]+⸢x⸣ tak ⸢ka⸣ šu₂ | |
| 10 | [x x x]-ni-e ina kas-pi | |
| 11 | [x x x]-bu-u-ni | |
| 12 | [x x x]+⸢x⸣ de-ni-ni | |
| 13 | [x x x] ina UGU | |
| 14 | [x x x]+⸢x⸣ a-ṣu-du | |
| 15 | [x i]-⸢ba⸣-aš₂-šu₂-u-ni | |
| 16 | [x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣-aš₂ | |
| r.e. | ||
| 17 | [x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣-tu₂ | |
| 18 | [x x] e-pa-aš₂ | |
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
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