CTN 5, ND 2799 (P224500)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Kalhu · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CTN 5, ND 2799 |
|---|---|
| ID | P224500 |
| Museum no. | IM 064176 |
| 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 king, my lord: your servant Duri-Aššur. The very best of health to the king, my lord! |
| Obverse [5:15] o 66– | As to what the king, my lord, wrote to me: "Let your major-domo come" – right now, he is provisioning all my [men], who are there, and they will (then) come quickly. |
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}⸢BAD₃⸣—{d}aš-šur | |
| 3 | lu DI-mu a-na LUGAL | |
| 4 | EN-ia₂ a—dan-niš | |
| 5 | a—dan-niš | |
| 6 | ša LUGAL be-li₂ | |
| 7 | iš-pur-a-ni ma-a | |
| 8 | {lu₂v}GAL—E₂-ka {lu₂v}GAL—E₂-ka | |
| 9 | ⸢lil⸣-li-ka a-nu-ri-ig | |
| 10 | {[lu₂v]}⸢ERIM⸣-MEŠ-ia | |
| 11 | ⸢am—mar⸣ i-ba-šu-ni | |
| 12 | u₂-ša₂-aṣ-bat | |
| 13 | et-ti-qu-ni | |
| 14 | i-la-ku-u-ni | |
Sources & licences
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