CTN 5, ND 2742 (P224481)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Kalhu · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CTN 5, ND 2742 |
|---|---|
| ID | P224481 |
| Museum no. | IM 064146 |
| 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 [0:4] o 1o 1–o 44 | [To the king, my lord: your servant NN]. The be[st of heal]th t[o] the king, my lord! |
| Obverse [4:14] o 55– | As to the grain st[ore] for barley about which the king wrote to me; let plenty of barley be brought and stored therein. |
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}x-x]-⸢x-x⸣ | |
| 3 | ⸢lu⸣-[u DI]-⸢mu⸣ a-⸢na⸣ | |
| 4 | LUGAL EN-ia a—⸢dan⸣-[niš] | |
| 5 | ina UGU na-⸢da-ba⸣-[ki] | |
| 6 | ša {še}PAD-MEŠ | |
| 7 | ša LUGAL | |
| 8 | iš-pur-a-ni | |
| 9 | ma-aʾ-da | |
| 10 | {še}PAD-MEŠ | |
| r | ||
| 1 | lu-bi-lu-u-ni | |
| 2 | ina ŠA₃-bi | |
| 3 | ⸢li⸣-di-bu-ku | |
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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