ABL 0621 + (P393866)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0621 + |
|---|---|
| ID | P393866 |
| 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, [our lord]: Your servants [Nabû-pašir] and Nabû-dur-ma[kie]. Good health to [the king, our lord]! May Sin and N[ikkal] bless the king, our lord! |
| Obverse [3:24] o 44– | As to the ditch about which the king wrote to us, we made a start on the ditch on the 10th, and on the 8th, as soon as we had got the men organized, we started measuring the Patti-Illil canal. As soon as we have found out its measurements and where it is easy and where difficult (to navigate), we shall write again to the king, my lord. |
| Reverse [5:14] r 66–r 1414 | Right now Nabû-bel-šumate of Birat is going to appeal to the king about Galṣabri, a town of his; [...] (grain) depots [......] in his hands. The king [our] lord [......] men [......] with us [...... |
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\y LUGAL\d [be-li₂-ni] | |
| 2 | ARAD-MEŠ-ka {1}[x x x x] | |
| 3 | {1}{d}PA—BAD₃—ma-[ki-e] | |
| 4 | lu DI\d-mu a-na [LUGAL be-li₂-ni] | |
| 5 | {d}30 u₃\d {d}⸢NIN⸣.[GAL] | |
| 6 | a-na\t LUGAL be-li₂-ni | |
| 7 | lik-ru-bu | |
| 8 | ina UGU {id₂t}hi-ri-te | |
| 9 | ša\tm LUGAL iš-pur-an-na-ši-ni | |
| 10 | UD 10-KAM₂\t A₂.2-ni | |
| 11 | ina UGU {id₂t}hi-ri-te | |
| 12 | nu-tu-me-di | |
| 13 | a-di {lu₂}ERIM-MEŠ\m nu-ša₂-aš₂-kin₂-u-ni | |
| 14 | UD 08-KAM₂\t ina UGU ma-da\m-a-di | |
| 15 | ša {id₂t}pat-ti\t—{d}BI | |
| b.e. | ||
| 16 | ni-iq-ṭi₂-ri-ib | |
| 17 | a-di mi-da\d-as\d-su | |
| r | ||
| 1 | ne₂-em-mar-u-ni | |
| 2 | ina be₂-et DUG₃.GA-u-ni | |
| 3 | ina be₂-et GIG-u-ni | |
| 4 | a-na\y LUGAL be-li₂-ia | |
| 5 | ni-šap-pa-ar | |
| 6 | an-nu-rig {1}{d}PA—EN—MU-MEŠ\m | |
| 7 | {uru}⸢HAL⸣.ṢU-a.a ina UGU | |
| 8 | {uru}⸢GAL⸣-ṣa-ab-ri URU-šu₂ | |
| 9 | il-la-⸢ka⸣ a-na LUGAL be-li₂-ia | |
| 10 | i-mah-⸢har⸣ [x] ⸢ANŠE⸣ kar-ma-a-ni | |
| 11 | ina A₂-šu₂ pa-[x x x]+⸢x⸣ | |
| 12 | LUGAL be-li₂-[ni x x x] | |
| 13 | {lu₂}ERIM-MEŠ [x x x x] | |
| 14 | i-se-e-ni [x x x x] | |
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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