ABL 1180 (P334776)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 1180 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334776 |
| 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 [0:7] o 1'1'–o 7'7' | [On the ... th, after ......] we had finished the (city) wall, [we] got [busy], gathered men for the straw that the king had given to us in Halahhu, and went to carry it over. |
| Obverse [7:20] o 8'8'– | The men working in the ditch, [of] a single prefect and 125 in number, have [neither] delivered straw of their own nor are they carrying that of Halahhu. By means of what will they glaze bricks for their work-quota tomorrow? What does the king my lord say? |
| Reverse [0:14] r 1r 1–r 1414 | As to the replacement for the dead concerning which the king told the magnates: "Provide the replacement!" — nobody has given us anything. The deficit of our dead [and] invalid soldiers who did not go to the campaign with us is [1],200; the magnates won't give it to us, nor have they given their straw, [nor] have they worked with us. |
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 x x x x] GAL | |
| 2' | [x x] ⸢BAD₃⸣ [nu]-⸢ug-da⸣-mir | |
| 3' | [A₂-ni nu]-⸢ta⸣-me-di\d {lu₂v}ERIM-MEŠ\m | |
| 4' | [ina] UGU {še}IN.NU <$x x$> | |
| 5' | ⸢ša⸣ LUGAL ina {kur}ha-la-hi | |
| 6' | [id]-di\d-na-na-ši-ni | |
| 7' | [ni]-ik\d-ti\t-ri-ik\d ni-ta-la-ka | |
| 8' | [ni]-za-bi-la {lu₂v}ERIM-MEŠ\m | |
| 9' | [ša] ina hi-ri-ti\t | |
| 10' | [ša] 01-en {lu₂vy}GAR-ni 01 me 25 | |
| 11' | [la] {še}IN.NU ša\d ra\t-me-ni-šu₂-nu | |
| 12' | [i]-di\d-nu la ša\m {kur}ha-la-hi | |
| 13' | ⸢i⸣-za-bi-lu-ni | |
| 14' | i—ši-a-ri i—ši-a-ri ina ŠA₃ mi-i-ni | |
| 15' | SIG₄\p-MEŠ i-ša₂-hu-ṭu | |
| 16' | a-na pil₂\d-il-ki-šu₂-nu | |
| 17' | mi-i-nu ša\dm LUGAL be-li₂ | |
| b.e. | ||
| 18' | i-qa-bu-u-ni | |
| r | ||
| 1 | ina UGU bat-qi\m ša\d UŠ₂-MEŠ\m | |
| 2 | ša\d LUGAL a-na {lu₂v}GAL-MEŠ\m | |
| 3 | iq-bu\tp-u-ni ma-a bat-qu | |
| 4 | di\d-i-na me-me-ni | |
| 5 | ⸢la⸣ i-di\d-na-na-ši | |
| 6 | [x]-lim\d-02-me LAL-e\d | |
| 7 | ⸢ša⸣ {lu₂v}ERIM-MEŠ\m-ni\p UŠ₂-MEŠ\t | |
| 8 | [u] ma-ki-u-te ša\d a-na KASKAL | |
| 9 | [i]-si-ni la i-li-ku-ni | |
| 10 | {[lu₂v]}GAL-MEŠ\m la i-ma-gur₂-ru | |
| 11 | ⸢la⸣ i-da-nu-na-ši | |
| 12 | ⸢u₃⸣ {še}IN.NU-šu₂-<$o$>-nu | |
| 13 | [la] ⸢i⸣-di\d-nu | |
| 14 | [la] dul-lu i-si-ni | |
| 15 | [e]-pu-uš | |
Sources & licences
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