CT 54, 424 (P236959)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
Open in the reader & map →See it among all tablets
| Designation | CT 54, 424 |
|---|---|
| ID | P236959 |
| 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 [1:2] r 2'2'–r 2'2' | [......] your [......] |
| Reverse [2:3] r 3'3'–r 3'3' | [......] before yo[u ......] |
| Reverse [3:4] r 4'4'–r 4'4' | [......] Don’t [y]ou [......] |
| Reverse [4:5] r 5'5'–r 5'5' | [......] that I raised yo[u ...] |
| Reverse [5:6] r 6'6'–r 6'6' | [and] saved you [previ]ously? Yo[u ...] |
| Reverse [6:7] r 7'7'–r 7'7' | Listen to this [...], do a good thing [......] |
| Reverse [7:8] r 8'8'–r 8'8' | [among] yourselves and may [......] |
| Reverse [8:9] r 9'9'–r 9'9' | [...] with you [......] |
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) |
|---|---|---|
| r | ||
| 1' | [x x x x x x x x x x] ⸢x x⸣+[x x x x x] | |
| 2' | [x x x x x x x x x x x]-ku-nu [x x x x x] | |
| 3' | [x x x x x x x x x x x] pa-ni-ku-⸢nu⸣ [x x x x x] | |
| 4' | [x x x x x x x x x at]-⸢tu⸣-nu la [x x x x x] | |
| 5' | [x x x x x] x x ša₂ a-na-ku u₂-ra-bu-ku-[nu x x x x] | |
| 6' | [x i-na pa]-ni-ti e-⸢ṭir₅⸣-ku-nu-ši at-⸢tu⸣-[nu x x x x] | |
| 7' | [x x x] a-ga-a ši-ma-a ba-ni-⸢ti⸣ [x x x x x] | |
| 8' | [ina ŠA₃-bi] ra-ma-ni-ku-nu ep-ša₂-ma [x x x x x] | |
| 9' | [x x x] ⸢x⸣ it-ti-ku-nu lu-⸢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)
Cite the original edition and translator. Page generated by Unread Atlas from the public corpus export of 2026-10-11.