CT 54, 495 (P237183)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 54, 495 |
|---|---|
| ID | P237183 |
| 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 [1:11] o 2'2'–o 11'11' | No provisions are laid in there, and whatever dates they had, the Puqudeans have carried them all off . But when we wrote to the šandabakku, saying: "We will help ourselves from one thousand (kor of) barley," he refused, (although) he has harvested a large crop. |
| Obverse [11:21] o 12'12'– | The k[i]ng, my lord, should enquire [...] whether during (all) those [ye]ars (when) an official of the king, my lord, was appointed in Nippur, I did not every year bring in one thousand (kor of) barley and deliver them to the servants [of the kin]g in Nippur. |
| Reverse [8:13] r 99–r 1313 | [The ...]eans should not be exempt |
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 da x⸣ [x x] | |
| 2' | PAD-HI.A ina ŠA₃-bi ul šak-⸢na-at⸣ | |
| 3' | u ZU₂.LUM.MA-šu₂-nu ma-⸢la⸣ | |
| 4' | i-ba-aš₂-šu₂-u₂ {lu₂}pu-qu-du | |
| 5' | gab-bi it-ta-šu₂-u₂ | |
| 6' | u₃ a-na {lu₂}GU₂.EN.NA | |
| 7' | ki-i niš-pur-ru | |
| 8' | um-ma ina 01-lim {še}BAR | |
| 9' | ŠU.2 ni-ṣa-bat ul i-man-gur | |
| 10' | BURU₁₄ ma-a-da | |
| 11' | i-te-⸢ṣi⸣-id | |
| 12' | ⸢LUGAL⸣ EN-a a-na | |
| r | ||
| 1 | ⸢x x x⸣-u liš-⸢ʾa-al x⸣ | |
| 2 | ⸢ki⸣-[i ina] ⸢MU⸣-MEŠ a-ga-a [o] | |
| 3 | {lu₂}EN—⸢pi⸣-qit-ti {lu₂}EN—⸢pi⸣-qit-ti ša₂ LUGAL | |
| 4 | EN-ia₂ ša₂ ina ⸢EN.LIL₂⸣{ki} | |
| 5 | ip-⸢pe⸣-qid-du ša₂ MU.AN.NA | |
| 6 | 01-lim {še}BAR la a-zab-⸢bil-ma⸣ | |
| 7 | ina EN.LIL₂{ki} a-na {lu₂}ARAD-⸢MEŠ⸣ | |
| 8 | [ša₂] ⸢LUGAL la⸣ a-nam-din | |
| 9 | [x x x x] x-⸢u₂⸣-a la za-ku-u₂ | |
| 10 | [x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ la | |
| 11 | [x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣-ku-nu | |
| 12 | [x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣-ni | |
| 13 | [x x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ | |
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