CT 54, 515 (P237324)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 54, 515 |
|---|---|
| ID | P237324 |
| 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 [0:8] o 1o 1–o 88 | [A tablet of Nu]rea to the [grand vizi]er, his lord. Good [health] to my lord! May Bel and Nabû ordain [...], happiness (and) good health to my lord f[o]rever! I pray every day to Bel and Nabû for the life of my lord. |
| Obverse [8:17] o 99– | As for the silver at my disposal, about which my lord wrote to me, saying: "Dispatch it to me in the hands of the chief tailor," now then I am dispatching it to my lord in the hands of the chief tailor. |
| Reverse [3:8] r 44–r 88 | And concerning the order that he gave me about the Babylonian, sa[ying]: "Bring (him) and [... eve]ryone whom he knows," |
| Reverse [8:9] r 99–r 99 | [...] with him [...] |
| Reverse [9:10] r 1010–r 1010 | [...] concerning [...] |
| Reverse [10:13] r 1111– | Th[ey enquire af]ter the health [of Ina-te]šî-eṭir, his brother. |
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 | [IM {1}⸢ZALAG₂-e-a a-na⸣ | |
| 2 | {[lu₂]}⸢SUKKAL EN⸣-šu₂ ⸢lu⸣-u | |
| 3 | [šu-lum] ⸢a⸣-na EN-ia₂ {d}EN u {d}AG | |
| 4 | ⸢x ṭu⸣-bi ŠA₃-bi | |
| 5 | ṭu-⸢bi UZU ša₂⸣ EN-⸢ia₂⸣ | |
| 6 | ⸢a-na da⸣-riš liq-⸢bu⸣-u | |
| 7 | UD-⸢mu-us⸣-su {d}EN ⸢u {d}AG⸣ | |
| 8 | a-⸢na TIN ZI⸣-MEŠ ša₂ EN-ia₂ | |
| 9 | u₂-ṣal-la a-na ⸢KUG.UD⸣ | |
| 10 | ša₂ ina pa-ni-ia₂ ša₂ be-li₂ | |
| 11 | iš-pu-ra um-ma | |
| 12 | ina ŠU.2 {lu₂}GAL—⸢ka⸣-ṣir {lu₂}GAL—⸢ka⸣-ṣir | |
| 13 | šu-bi-la | |
| r | ||
| 1 | a-du-u ⸢ina ŠU.2 ša₂⸣ | |
| 2 | {lu₂}GAL—⸢ka-ṣir⸣ {lu₂}GAL—⸢ka-ṣir⸣ | |
| 3 | a-na EN-ia₂ ⸢ul⸣-te-bi-la | |
| 4 | u ⸢a⸣-na UGU-⸢hi ša₂ ina UGU⸣ | |
| 5 | {lu₂}⸢TIN.TIR{ki} ṭe₃⸣-em | |
| 6 | ⸢iš-ku⸣-na-an-ni | |
| 7 | ⸢um⸣-[ma] i-šam-ma | |
| 8 | ⸢mam-ma ma⸣-la ⸢i⸣-du-u | |
| 9 | [x x] it-ti-šu₂ | |
| 10 | [x x]-a a-⸢na⸣ UGU-hi | |
| 11 | [x x] a šu-lum | |
| 12 | [ša₂ {1}ina]—⸢SUH₃⸣—ŠUR ŠEŠ-šu₂ | |
| r.e. | ||
| 13 | [i-ša₂-ʾa]-⸢a-lu⸣ | |
Sources & licences
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