ABL 0273 (P393831)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0273 |
|---|---|
| ID | P393831 |
| 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 [0:1] o 1o 1–o 1o 1 | To Nabû-ušabši: |
| Obverse [1:12] o 22–o 1212 | Concerning the horses about which you wrote, even before you wrote I sent the treasurer Aššur-gimilli-terra with the army. Do whatever is opportune to do, be it to block the canal or to [subjug]ate those people. |
| Obverse [12:23] o 1313– | After the letter which you sent I am sending to you Bel-eṭir and Arbayu the cohort commander with 200 horses, to assist you in the work. |
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 {1}{d}PA—GAL₂-ši | |
| 2 | ina UGU {anše}KUR.RA-MEŠ | |
| 3 | ša₂ taš-pur-an-ni | |
| 4 | ki-i ud-di-na | |
| 5 | la ta-šap-par-an-ni | |
| 6 | {1}aš-šur—ŠU—GUR-ra {lu₂}IGI.DUB | |
| 7 | {lu₂}e-muq-qi is-si-šu₂ | |
| 8 | as-sap-ra mi₃-i-nu | |
| 9 | ša₂ a-na e-pa-še | |
| 10 | DUG₃.GA-u₂-ni ep-ša₂ | |
| 11 | BE-ma {id₂}har-ru sik-ra | |
| 12 | [BE]-⸢ma⸣ UN-MEŠ am-mu-te | |
| 13 | [kub]-⸢sa⸣ u id—da-at id—da-at | |
| 14 | [e]-gir₂-te ša₂ taš-pur-an-ni | |
| r | ||
| 1 | {1}{d}EN—KAR-ir | |
| 2 | {1}ar₂⸣-ba-ia₂ | |
| 3 | {lu₂}GAL—KA.KEŠ₂ {lu₂}GAL—KA.KEŠ₂ 02-me | |
| 4 | {anše}KUR.RA-MEŠ ina ŠU.2-šu₂-nu | |
| 5 | us-se-bi-lak-ka | |
| 6 | li-iz-zi-zu | |
| 7 | is-si-ku-nu dul-lu | |
| 8 | le-pu-šu | |
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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