CTN 5, ND 2780 (P224495)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Kalhu · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CTN 5, ND 2780 |
|---|---|
| ID | P224495 |
| Museum no. | IM 064168 |
| 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 | [T]o the gove[rnor, my brother: yo]ur [brother] Bel-e[riba. Good] health to m[y] bro[ther]! |
| Obverse [3:15] o 44– | The guard Nabû-eṭiranni and Issar-šumu-ereš, a recruit of the team commander, brought me a team of Egyptian horses, saying: "This is a royal order: ‘[Br]i[ng] the horse(s) into the city of [......] |
| Reverse [1:2] r 22–r 22 | [...] in the land of [...]. |
| Reverse [2:6] r 33–r 66 | [I]f it is a royal order, [let] my brother send word that I may receive the team. |
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⸣ {lu₂v}EN.[NAM PAB-ia] | |
| 2 | [PAB]-⸢ka⸣ {1}EN—⸢SU⸣ | |
| 3 | [lu-u] DI-mu a-na ⸢PAB-ia⸣ | |
| 4 | {1}{d}PA—KAR-ir-an-ni | |
| 5 | {⸢lu₂}ša⸣—EN.NUN | |
| 6 | {1}15—MU—KAM | |
| 7 | {⸢lu₂v}rak⸣-su ša {lu₂v}GAL—u-rat {lu₂v}GAL—u-rat | |
| 8 | u₂-ru-u ša {anše}KUR.RA-MEŠ | |
| 9 | {kur}mu-ṣur-a.a | |
| 10 | ina ⸢UGU-hi⸣-ia na-ṣa | |
| 11 | ma-⸢a a⸣-bat LUGAL | |
| 12 | ši-i ma-a {anše}KUR.RA | |
| 13 | ina {uru}⸢x⸣+[x x x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1 | [še]-⸢ri⸣-[ba x x x] | |
| 2 | [x] ina KUR [x x x x] | |
| 3 | ⸢šum⸣-ma a-bat ⸢LUGAL⸣ | |
| 4 | ⸢ši⸣-i PAB-u-a | |
| 5 | ⸢liš⸣-pu-ra | |
| 6 | ⸢u₂⸣-ru-u la-hur-ru | |
Sources & licences
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