CTN 5, ND 2405 (P224381)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Kalhu · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CTN 5, ND 2405 |
|---|---|
| ID | P224381 |
| Museum no. | IM — |
| Collection | National Museum of Iraq, Baghdad, Iraq |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | Letter |
| Find spot | Kalhu (mod. Nimrūd) |
| Coordinates | 36.1022, 43.3385 |
English translation
By ORACC project saao/saa19 · 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 k]i[ng], my lord: [your servant Mann]u-ki-Aššur. Good heal[th] to the king, my lord! |
| Obverse [3:5] o 44–o 55 | Con[cerni]ng the [...] about which the king, my lord, [wrote to me]: "Right now [......] |
| Obverse [5:6] o 66–o 66 | [......] to yo[u] |
| Obverse [6:8] o 77–o 88 | [......] and I/he will raise seed |
| Reverse [1:3] r 2'2'–r 3'3' | [... ...]... I [have] now [...ed] them and am [in GN]. |
| Reverse [3:7] r 4'4'– | Right now I s[t]and at my watchpost [and] keep my [w]atch. |
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}man]-⸢nu⸣—ki-⸢i⸣—{d}aš-šur | |
| 3 | ⸢lu-u₂ DI⸣-[mu] ⸢a⸣-na LUGAL be-li₂-ia₂ | |
| 4 | ⸢a-na UGU⸣ [x x] ⸢x⸣-a-ni ša₂ ⸢LUGAL⸣ be-li₂ | |
| 5 | [iš-pu-ra] ⸢um⸣-ma a-⸢du-u₂⸣ | |
| 6 | [x x x x]+⸢x⸣ a-na pa-ni-⸢ka⸣ | |
| 7 | [x x x x]+⸢x⸣-ma NUMUN ul-la | |
| 8 | [x x x x]+⸢x x⸣ [x x x]+⸢x x⸣ | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [x x x x x x x]+⸢x x⸣ | |
| 2' | [x x x x]-nu-u₂ en-na | |
| 3' | [x x x x]-su-nu-ti-ma | |
| 4' | [ina x x]{ki} a-na-ku a-du-u | |
| 5' | ina ⸢x⸣ [x] EN.NUN-ia | |
| 6' | ⸢u₂-šu⸣-uz-za-ak-a | |
| r.e. | ||
| 7 | [x] ⸢EN⸣.NUN-a a-na-aṣ-ṣar | |
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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