ABL 1458 (P334918)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 1458 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334918 |
| 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 [0:3] o 1o 1–o 33 | To the king, my lord: your servant Ṭab-šar-Aššur. Good health to the king, my lord! |
| Obverse [3:5] o 44–o 55 | As to this gold of which the king wrote to me: "Why did you give it? [......] of [......]," |
| Obverse [5:9] o 66–o 99 | this [......] 11 talents [......] alone [......] to the king [...... |
| Reverse [0:3] r 1'1'–r 3'3' | of the king [......] one shekel from the išk[āru] dues [......]. They have weighed it in my presence but have not yet received it. |
| Reverse [3:6] r 4'4'–r 6'6' | We have not [yet] received the rest of the gold [from PN]. He has returned one mina of the yield of wool (retrieved) from the son of [Kenî], but [... minas] of the gold is still [outstanding]. |
| Reverse [6:16] r 7'7'– | Half a mina of silver [......] without [...]; the son of Kenî told me: "[.......]; nobody should [...... |
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-[li₂-ia] | |
| 2 | ARAD-ka {1}DUG₃.GA—IM—{d}[aš-šur] | |
| 3 | lu DI-mu a-na LUGAL be-li₂-[ia] | |
| 4 | ina UGU KUG.GI an-ni-e ša\yd LUGAL be-⸢li₂⸣ [iš-pur-an-ni] | |
| 5 | ma-a a-ta-a ta-ad-din ⸢ma⸣-a ⸢ša⸣ [x x x x x] | |
| 6 | an-ni\d-u₂ [x x x x x x x x x x x x] | |
| 7 | 11 GU₂.UN [x x x x x x x x x x x x] | |
| 8 | u₂-di-šu₂ [x x x x x x x x x x x x] | |
| 9 | ina UGU LUGAL [x x x x x x x x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | ša ⸢LUGAL⸣ [x x x x x x x x x x x x x] | |
| 2' | 01 GIN₂ TA@v\m ŠA₃ ⸢EŠ₂.QAR⸣ [x x x x x] | |
| 3' | ina pa-na-tu-ia ih-ti\t-ṭu u₂\m-⸢di⸣-[ni x x x] | |
| 4' | la i-ma-hu-ru\d re-eh-ti\t KUG.GI [x x x x x x] | |
| 5' | la ⸢ni⸣-ma-har gi-zu-tu₂ ša\yd TA@v\m IGI ⸢DUMU⸣ {1}x x x x x] | |
| 6' | 01 MA TA@v\m ŠA₃ u₂-sa-hi-ir a-na hur [x x x x x x] | |
| 7' | KUG.GI re\d-he 1/2 MA KUG.UD ša ⸢la x⸣+[x x x x x x] | |
| 8' | DUMU {1}GIN-i iq\d-ṭi₂-bi-a ma-[a x x x x x x] | |
| 9' | ma-a me-me-ni ina UGU-⸢hi⸣ lu ⸢la⸣ [x x x x x x x x] | |
| 10' | LUGAL be-li₂-ia ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x x x x] | |
| 11' | SUM-an ši ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x x x x x] | |
| 12' | a-na-⸢ku⸣ [x x x x x x x x x x x] | |
| r.e. | ||
| 13 | DINGIR-⸢MEŠ⸣ [x x x x x x x x] | |
| 14 | lu la [x x x x x x x x x] | |
| 15 | na-[x x x x x x x x x x] | |
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
- 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) · ORACC project editions, https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ ; cite the individual project (see texts.extra_json.project)
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