CT 54, 450 (P236891)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 54, 450 |
|---|---|
| ID | P236891 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | Letter |
| Find spot | Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) |
| Coordinates | 36.3582, 43.1621 |
English translation
By ORACC project saao/saa17 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:3] o 1'1'–o 3'3' | May Na[bû and Mar]duk bless [th]e kin[g, my lord]! Say to the king, my lord: |
| Obverse [3:8] o 4'4'– | Did I not send the king as a gift a golden necklace and a golden diadem on top of the tribute? |
| Reverse [0:2] r 1r 1–r 22 | They are quite sound, I have made them pleasing indeed. The king may be glad. |
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' | d.⸢AG⸣ [u {d}AMAR].⸢UTU⸣ [a]-⸢na LUGAL⸣ [EN-ia] | |
| 2' | lik-ru-bu | |
| 3' | um-ma-a a-na LUGAL be-li₂-⸢ia₂⸣-[a-ma] | |
| 4' | ul GU₂.BAR KUG.GI | |
| 5' | u₃ pa-tin-nu KUG.GI | |
| 6' | šul-man ša₂ LUGAL a-na UGU | |
| 7' | bil₂-tu₂ ul-te-li | |
| r | ||
| 1 | ma-aʾ-diš šal-mu | |
| 2 | pa-ni u₂-ma-hir | |
| 3 | LUGAL lu-u₂ ha-ma | |
Sources & licences
- Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative · CDLI: reuse of catalogue/transliteration data with citation of CDLI; images restricted (not fetched) · Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI), https://cdli.earth/ ; cite CDLI and the P-number
- 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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