CTN 5, ND 2626 (P224438)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Kalhu · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CTN 5, ND 2626 |
|---|---|
| ID | P224438 |
| Museum no. | IM 064082 |
| 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 kin]g, my lord: [your servant] Šarru-duri. [Good heal]th to the king, my lord! |
| Obverse [3:9] o 44–o 99 | I have [persona]lly brought [the people] of Sin-šabši [in]to the king, my lord's presence: once to the Review Palace and once to Nineveh. |
| Obverse [9:10] o 1010–o 1010 | [May] the ki[ng], my lord, [do] me justice [......]. |
| Reverse [0:1] r 1'1'–r 1'1' | [...] has not do[ne]. |
| Reverse [1:5] r 2'2'–r 5'5' | [As t]o the Arabs [about whom the kin]g, my lord, said: "The Hindanean has brought them over to this [sid]e (of the river)." |
| Reverse [5:11] r 6'6'– | [But] not [all of] them have crossed over. They [keep w]atch at the highest point [on] the other [sid]e (of the river and) thei[r ...] are trading in the desert. [Let them le]ave [their ... in] Hindanu. |
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-ia₂ | |
| 2 | [ARAD-ka] {1}MAN—BAD₃\m | |
| 3 | [lu DI]-⸢mu⸣ a-na\d LUGAL EN-a | |
| 4 | [UN]-⸢MEŠ\t⸣ ša {uru}{d}30—šab-ši | |
| 5 | [qar-ba]-ti\t-ia | |
| 6 | [ina] ⸢IGI⸣ LUGAL\d EN-a | |
| 7 | ⸢u₂⸣-se-ri\d-bi\d | |
| 8 | ⸢ma⸣-la ina E₂.GAL—ma-šar-ti E₂.GAL—ma-šar-ti | |
| 9 | ma-la ina {uru}ni-nu-u-a | |
| 10 | ⸢LUGAL EN⸣ de-e-⸢ni⸣ | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [x x]+⸢x⸣ la e-pu-[uš] | |
| 2' | [ina] ⸢UGU⸣ {lu₂vy}ar\d-ba\t-a-a | |
| 3' | [ša] ⸢LUGAL⸣ EN iq-bu-u-ni | |
| 4' | [ma-a] {⸢lu₂v⸣}hi-in\p-da\d-na\td-a.a | |
| 5' | [ina bat]-⸢ti⸣ an-ni-ti\t u₂-se-bi-ra-šu₂-nu | |
| 6' | [gab-bi]-šu la e-bi-ru\d-u-ni | |
| 7' | [ina bat]-⸢ti⸣ am\d-me-te ina SAG\d | |
| 8' | [i]-⸢na⸣-ṣur ina mu-da\d-⸢bir⸣ | |
| 9' | [x x x]-⸢šu₂-nu⸣ me-e-ru\d | |
| 10' | [x x ina] {uru}hi-in\p-da\d-ni | |
| r.e. | ||
| 11 | [lu-ram]-⸢mi₃⸣-iu-u₂\m | |
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