CT 54, 455 (P236935)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 54, 455 |
|---|---|
| ID | P236935 |
| 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/saa21 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Reverse [0:1] r 1'1'–r 1'1' | [......] when [...] |
| Reverse [1:7] r 2'2'–r 7'7' | [s]ent [by the hand of] Zakiru son of I[bâ]: "May the king [with] the governors come [into your presence]," [yo]u wrote to me: "Come!" |
| Reverse [7:11] r 8'8'–r 11'11' | Do[n’t] you know that an inauspicious [omen] and [one that is not t]o the benefit [...] |
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 x x x x x] ⸢x⸣ | |
| 2' | [x x x x x x x x]-pi | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [x x] ⸢x x⸣ ki-i ⸢x⸣ [x] | |
| 2' | [ŠU.2 {1}za-ki-ri DUMU i-[ba-a] | |
| 3' | [iš]-pu-ra um-ma LUGAL 0 | |
| 4' | [KI] {lu₂}NAM-MEŠ um-ma 0 | |
| 5' | [ina IGI]-ka lil-li-⸢ka⸣ | |
| 6' | [at]-⸢ta⸣ taš-pu-ra 0 | |
| 7' | [um]-⸢ma⸣ al-ka at-ta | |
| 8' | [ul] ⸢ti⸣-de-e ki-i | |
| 9' | [A₂] ⸢la⸣ ba-ni-ti u₃ | |
| 10' | [ša₂ a]-⸢na⸣ du-un-qi₂ | |
| 11' | [x x] ⸢x x x x x x⸣ | |
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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