CT 54, 454 (P236911)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 54, 454 |
|---|---|
| ID | P236911 |
| 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/saa18 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [3:4] o 4'4'–o 4'4' | the king, my lord, [...] |
| Obverse [4:5] o 5'5'–o 5'5' | I have not been remiss, up till [now]. |
| Obverse [5:12] o 6'6'–o 12'12' | Now then I have stationed [...]s upon [...]. We are praying to [the god]s of the king, my lord. [However], this territory [wher]e we are keeping watch, its [...] is very extensive indeed. [The king], my lord, knows it. |
| Obverse [12:22] o 13'13'– | [Con]cerning the [m]an who [apppealed] to the king, the son of Ina-tešî-eṭir [who f]led, [about whom the king], my [lo]rd, wrote to me, [saying]: "Someone who knows him should identify him [...]," — his name is [...]-Bel. |
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' | ⸢x⸣+[x] a [x x x x x x] | |
| 2' | a-⸢na⸣ [x x x x x x] | |
| 3' | ⸢x⸣+[x x]-⸢ma⸣ [x x x x x] | |
| 4' | ⸢LUGAL EN⸣-a [x] ⸢x⸣+[x x x x] | |
| 5' | la še-⸢la-ku⸣ a-⸢di⸣ [x x x] | |
| 6' | ⸢a⸣-du-u₂ i-na ⸢UGU x x x⸣ | |
| 7' | [x]-⸢li⸣-MEŠ ul-te-ez-ziz | |
| 8' | [DINGIR]-MEŠ ša₂ LUGAL EN-ia₂ nu-ṣal-la | |
| 9' | ⸢u⸣ qaq-qa-ru a-ga-a | |
| 10' | [x] ⸢x-bi⸣ ni-na-aṣ-ṣa-ru | |
| 11' | [x x]+⸢x⸣-šu₂ a-⸢ki—ma⸣-de-e a-⸢ki—ma⸣-de-e ra-pa-aš₂ | |
| 12' | [LUGAL] EN-a i-di | |
| 13' | [i-na] UGU ⸢LU₂⸣ ša₂ a-na LUGAL | |
| 14' | [x x]+⸢x x x x x A⸣ {1}ina—⸢SUH₃⸣—ŠUR | |
| b.e. | ||
| 15' | [ša₂] ⸢ih-li⸣-qu | |
| r | ||
| 1 | [ša₂ LUGAL] ⸢EN⸣-a iš-pu-ra | |
| 2 | [um-ma] mam-ma ša₂ i-du-šu₂ | |
| 3 | [x x x] ⸢x⸣ lu-mas-si-šu₂ | |
| 4 | {1}x x x]+⸢x—{d}EN⸣ MU-šu₂ | |
| 5 | [x x x x x x] ⸢x⸣ [x] | |
Sources & licences
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