ABL 1362 (P334865)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 1362 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334865 |
| 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 [3:8] o 4'4'–o 8'8' | As to the of[ficials] in Adi[a] and in Tas[tiate concerning whom] the king, my lord, wro[te me]: "All of them should go t[o Dur-Šarruken]!" — |
| Obverse [8:13] o 9'9'–o 13'13' | the bu[ll colossi] of the magnates are set up to[gether] and the king, my lord, [(earlier) said]: "They should quickly ... the colossi and as long as the water in the river is [low, bring them across] the river!" |
| Obverse [13:19] o 14'14'– | Who [...] would (then) stay (here) to look after the [bull colossi]? |
| Reverse [0:6] r 1r 1–r 66 | N[ow], the magnates are waiting for [me]. May the king, my lord, wait for me (until) Siv[an] (III), and I will (then) get the work done and deliver it to [the king]. |
| Reverse [6:13] r 77–r 1313 | If the king, my lord, (nevertheless) ord[ers]: "They must go!" then let ten (officials) from the Inner City and five from Calah stay to look after the bull coloss[i]; the r[est may go] to Dur-Š[arruken]. |
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 x x x] | |
| 2' | ⸢x x⸣+[x x x x x x x] | |
| 3' | ⸢x⸣+[x] a-na\t [x x x x x] | |
| 4' | UGU {lu₂}⸢EN⸣—[pi-qit-ta-ti] {lu₂}⸢EN⸣—[pi-qit-ta-ti] | |
| 5' | ša\dym ŠA₃ {uru}a-di\d-[a] | |
| 6' | {uru}ta-as\dm-[ti-a-te ša] | |
| 7' | LUGAL be-li₂ iš-[pur-an-ni] | |
| 8' | ma-a gab-bi-šu₂-nu ⸢a⸣-[na {uru}BAD₃—MAN—GIN] | |
| 9' | lil-li-ku {d}⸢ALAD⸣.{[d}LAMA-MEŠ] | |
| 10' | ša\dym {lu₂}GAL-MEŠ ki-⸢i⸣ [a-ha-iš] | |
| 11' | zaq-pu LUGAL be-li₂ [iq-ṭi-bi] | |
| 12' | ma-a {d}ALAD.{d}LAMA-[MEŠ] | |
| 13' | ar-hi-iš li-ik-ba\t-[su-ni] | |
| 14' | a-du A-MEŠ ina ID₂ [e-ṣu-ni] | |
| 15' | ID₂ lu-[še-bi-ru] | |
| b.e. | ||
| 16' | {lu₂}EN—⸢x⸣+[x x x x] | |
| 17' | man-nu pa-an {[d}ALAD.{d}LAMA-MEŠ] | |
| r | ||
| 1 | i-za-za ⸢u₂⸣-[ma-a] | |
| 2 | {lu₂}GAL-MEŠ ina pa-ni-[ia] | |
| 3 | i-da\d-gul ina {itim}⸢SIG₄⸣ [o] | |
| 4 | LUGAL be-li₂ ina pa-ni-⸢ia⸣ | |
| 5 | lid-gul dul₆-lu a-na\t [LUGAL] | |
| 6 | lu-u-ša\dym-ak-ši\d-di\d la-⸢din⸣ | |
| 7 | šum₂-ma LUGAL be-li₂ i-qab-[bi] | |
| 8 | ma-a lil-li\d-ku [o] | |
| 9 | 10 {uru}ŠA₃—URU-a.a [o] | |
| 10 | 05 {uru}kal-ha-a.a [o] | |
| 11 | ina pa-an {d}ALAD.{d}LAMA-[MEŠ] | |
| 12 | lu-u šu-nu ⸢re⸣-[hu-ti] | |
| 13 | ina {uru}BAD₃—⸢MAN⸣—[GIN lil-li-ku] | |
Sources & licences
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