CT 54, 478 (P237040)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 54, 478 |
|---|---|
| ID | P237040 |
| 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 |
|---|---|
| Obverse [1:3] o 2'2'–o 3'3' | [the king, our lord, r]emembered us, and gave water [... to our ...], consolidated our privileged status, [and] established [our freedom from taxes]. |
| Obverse [3:5] o 4'4'–o 5'5' | And since [we are] his servants [...], there has been [no other lord] for us [...] |
| Obverse [5:7] o 6'6'– | [...] ... of our lords [......] |
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] ⸢x x⸣ [x] tu [x x x x] | |
| 2' | [x x x x x] ⸢ha⸣-sa-an-na-šu₂ u A-MEŠ [x x x x x] | |
| 3' | [x x x x x] ⸢i⸣-din ki-di-nu-ta-ni ik-ta-ṣar [x x x x] | |
| 4' | [x x x x x] il-ta-kan u a-ki ARAD-MEŠ-šu₂ [x x x x] | |
| 5' | [x x x x x]-⸢ma⸣ [ul] ib-ši-an-na-⸢šu₂⸣ [x x x] | |
| 6' | [x x x x] re-⸢bi-i⸣ ša₂ EN-MEŠ-ni [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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