ABL 0302 (P393750)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0302 |
|---|---|
| ID | P393750 |
| 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/saa21 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:5] o 1o 1–o 55 | The king's word to Nabû-šar-ahhešu: I am well; you can be glad. |
| Obverse [5:10] o 66–o 1010 | Concerning the horses for the review about which you wrote, normally we send them at the new moon of the month of Adar (XII). Do come. |
| Obverse [10:18] o 1111– | When the crippled were a hindrance, we sent them earlier, in Shebat (XI), for in the event of a severe cold, or even in (any) cold, they would die of cold. |
| Reverse [3:8] r 44–r 88 | Let us send them in mid-Shebat, so they can keep dragging them and coming for the (whole) month of Adar; then they will reach us within Nisan (I). |
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-bat LUGAL | |
| 2 | a-na {1}{d}PA—MAN—PAB-MEŠ-šu₂ | |
| 3 | DI-mu ia-a-ši | |
| 4 | ŠA₃-ba-ka | |
| 5 | lu-u ṭa-ab-ka | |
| 6 | ina UGU {anše}KUR.RA-MEŠ | |
| 7 | ša₂ ma-šar-te | |
| 8 | ša₂ taš-pur-an-ni | |
| 9 | ši-dim₂-ma ina ŠA₃ ITI | |
| 10 | ša₂ {iti}ŠE ni-šap-par | |
| 11 | al-ka ki-i {lu₂}GIR₃.AD₄ | |
| 12 | ik-rim-u-ni | |
| 13 | nu-uh-tar-rip | |
| 14 | ina ŠA₃ {iti}ZIZ₂ ni-is-sa-par | |
| r | ||
| 1 | ina dan-ni-te ša₂ ku-uṣ-ṣu | |
| 2 | ina ku-uṣ-ṣi-im-ma | |
| 3 | ina ku-uṣ-ṣu i-mut-tu₂ | |
| 4 | ina meš-la-te ša₂ {iti}ZIZ₂ | |
| 5 | ni-iš-pur bi-is | |
| 6 | a-na {iti}ŠE i-šad-da-du-niš-šu₂-nu | |
| 7 | il-la-ku-u-ni | |
| 8 | il-la-ka ina ŠA₃ {iti}BARAG | |
| 9 | i-kaš-ša₂-du-u-ni | |
Sources & licences
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- 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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