CTN 5, ND 2617 (P224435)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Kalhu · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CTN 5, ND 2617 |
|---|---|
| ID | P224435 |
| Museum no. | IM 064077 |
| 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 [0:5] o 1o 1–o 55 | To the [k]ing, my lord: your se[rva]nt Ašipâ. Good health to the [k]i[ng], my [lo]rd! May Nabû (and) Marduk bless the king, my lord. |
| Obverse [5:8] o 66–o 88 | The royal bodyguard whom the king, my lord, sent, said: "Kill the locusts!" |
| Obverse [8:15] o 99– | We have exterminated all that there was of them, they did not damage any of the harvest. [The g]ods of the king, my lord, destroyed them. |
| Reverse [0:3] r 1r 1–r 33 | The harvests in the [en]tire land of the king, my lord, are very well. |
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}⸢a⸣-ši-pa-⸢a⸣ | |
| 3 | lu-u DI-mu a-na ⸢LUGAL EN⸣-ia | |
| 4 | {d}AG {d}AMAR.UTU | |
| 5 | a-na LUGAL EN-ia lik-ru-bu | |
| 6 | {lu₂v}qur-bu-tu₂ ša ⸢LUGAL⸣ | |
| 7 | EN iš-pur-an-ni | |
| 8 | ma-a e-ra-bi-u₂ | |
| 9 | du-ku mar i-ba-šu₂-ni | |
| 10 | ni-su-qu-su | |
| 11 | {še}BURU₁₄ me-me-ni | |
| 12 | la il-pu-ut | |
| 13 | ⸢DINGIR⸣-ME-ni ša LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 14 | uh-tal-li-qu-šu₂ | |
| r | ||
| 1 | {še}⸢BURU₁₄⸣-MEŠ-ni | |
| 2 | ina KUR ša LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 3 | ⸢DU₃.A⸣.BI DI-mu a—dan-niš | |
Sources & licences
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