CTN 5, ND 2401 (P224401)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Kalhu · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CTN 5, ND 2401 |
|---|---|
| ID | P224401 |
| Museum no. | IM 064025 |
| 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 ki]ng, my lord: [your servant In]urta-belu-uṣur. [Good heal]th to the king, my lord! |
| Obverse [3:8] o 44–o 88 | [Concerning] what the king, my lord, wrote to me: "[O]f the 1,000 cavalry which I formed and [is c]oming, you have extracted in my presence the iškāru tax on horses [for] this [y]ear that [I imp]osed on the merchants." |
| Obverse [8:10] o 99–o 1010 | "[You should speak] with your heart [accor]dingly!" - [I have not y]et [extracted the išk]āru tax! |
| Obverse [10:11] o 1111–o 1111 | [... horse]s |
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⸣ EN-ia | |
| 2 | [ARAD-ka] {1}{d}MAŠ⸣—EN—PAB | |
| 3 | [lu-u DI]-⸢mu a⸣-na LUGAL\dy EN-ia | |
| 4 | [ina UGU] ša\m LUGAL\d be-li₂ iš-pur-a-ni\d | |
| 5 | [ma-a] ⸢ša⸣ 01 lim BAD-HAL-⸢li⸣ ak-ṣur-u₂-ni\d | |
| 6 | [il]-la\d-ka-ni ma-a EŠ₂.QAR {anše}KUR\y.RA-MEŠ | |
| 7 | [ša] ⸢MU⸣.AN.NA an-ni-te ša\m a-na {lu₂vy}DAM\m.QAR-MEŠ | |
| 8 | [e-me]-du-ni ina IGI-ia ta\d-sa-lap | |
| 9 | [ma-a ki-i] ha-ni\d-i TA@v\m ŠA₃-bi-ka | |
| 10 | [lu ta-ad-bu-ub] ⸢EŠ₂.QAR u₂⸣-[di]-ni | |
| 11 | [la x x x x x x {anše}KUR.RA]-⸢MEŠ⸣ | |
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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