TCL 09, 067 (P337150)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Khorsabad (Dur-Šarrukin) · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | TCL 09, 067 |
|---|---|
| ID | P337150 |
| Museum no. | N 3 3158 |
| Collection | Louvre Museum, Paris, France |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | Letter |
| Find spot | Khorsabad (Dur-Šarrukin) |
| Coordinates | 36.5100, 43.2283 |
English translation
By ORACC project saao/saa05 · 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 ki]ng, my lord: [yo]ur [servant] Aššur-reṣuwa. [Good] health to the king, my lord! |
| Obverse [3:11] o 44–o 1111 | Burê, Eziye, Gamalu and Ehiye, in all four (men) under Ariazâ; Kumayu and Biriaun, in all two (men) under Ariye — these six Kummeans go and stay in Bususu, a town in the domain of the chief cupbearer. |
| Obverse [11:26] o 1212– | The inhabitants of Bususu purchase Assyrian luxury items in Calah and Nineveh and sell them to these Kummeans. These Kummeans enter the town Aira of the house of Kaqqadanu, ruled by Saniye, a city lord subject to the governor of Calah, and bring (the merchandise) from there to Urarṭu. From over there they import luxury items here. |
| Reverse [5:8] r 66–r 88 | The king, my lord, should write to [Sani]ye, the city lord, that he should arrest these Kummeans and send them to the king, my lord. |
| Reverse [8:13] r 99–r 1313 | The king, my lord, should ask them where they buy these valuables, where they sell them, who receives them from their hands, and who lets them pass (the border). |
| Reverse [13:16] r 1414–r 1616 | These Kummeans are runaways; they have run away from Kumme. |
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\d-ia | |
| 2 | [ARAD]-⸢ka⸣ {1}aš-šur—re-ṣu-u-a | |
| 3 | [lu] DI-mu a-na LUGAL be-li₂\d-ia | |
| 4 | {1}bu-ri-e {1}e-zi-ie-e | |
| 5 | {1}ga-ma-lu {1}e-hi-ie-e | |
| 6 | PAB 04 ša\d ŠU.2 {1}a-ri-a-za-a | |
| 7 | {1}ku-ma-a.a {1}bi-ri-a-un | |
| 8 | ⸢PAB⸣ 02 ša\p ŠU.2 {1}a-ri-e | |
| 9 | 06 {1}ku-⸢ma⸣-a.a ⸢an⸣-nu-ti\t | |
| 10 | il-lu-ku ina ŠA₃ {uru}bu-su-si | |
| 11 | ša\p E₂ {lu₂vy}GAL—KAŠ.LUL {lu₂vy}GAL—KAŠ.LUL u₂-šu-bu | |
| 12 | {uru}bu-su-sa-a.a ṣa-hi-ta-a-⸢te⸣ | |
| 13 | ša\p KUR—aš-šur{ki} TA@v\m {uru}kal-hi | |
| 14 | TA@v\m {uru}ni\d-nu-a i-laq-qi-u | |
| 15 | a-na {1}ku-ma-a.a an-nu-te | |
| 16 | i-du-nu {1}ku-ma-a.a an-nu-te | |
| 17 | ⸢ina ŠA₃⸣ {uru}a-i-ra | |
| 18 | E₂ {1}SAG.DU-a-ni\d | |
| 19 | ša ŠU.2 {1}sa-ni\d-ie-⸢e⸣ | |
| 20 | EN—URU EN—URU {lu₂vy}⸢ARAD⸣ | |
| r | ||
| 1 | ⸢ša⸣ {lu₂vy}EN.NAM ša\p {uru}kal-hi | |
| 2 | ina ŠA₃-bi e-ru-bu TA@v\m ŠA₃-bi | |
| 3 | ina ŠA₃-bi {kur}URI u₂-bu-lu | |
| 4 | TA@v\m ma-ak-ka ṣa-hi\p-ta\p-a-te | |
| 5 | a-na ni-ša₂ ⸢u₂⸣-ba-al-u-ni | |
| 6 | LUGAL be-li₂ ina UGU {1}[sa-ni]-ie-e | |
| 7 | EN—URU EN—URU liš-⸢pur⸣ {1}ku-ma-a.a an-nu-te | |
| 8 | lu-ṣa-bi-it ina UGU LUGAL be-li₂-ia₂ | |
| 9 | lu-še-bi-la LUGAL be-li₂ liš\d-al\d-šu₂-nu | |
| 10 | ṣa-hi-ta\p-a-te an-na\t-te TA@v\m a.a-ka | |
| 11 | i-na-šu-ni a-na a.a-ša₂ i-da-nu-ni | |
| 12 | man-nu TA@v\m ŠU.2-šu₂-nu i-ma-har-u-ni | |
| 13 | man-nu u₂-še-bar-ru\m-šu-nu-u-ni | |
| 14 | {1}ku-ma-a.a an-nu-te | |
| 15 | hal-qu-u-te šu-nu | |
| 16 | ⸢TA@v\m⸣ {uru}ku-um-me | |
| 17 | hal-qu | |
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