CT 54, 521 (P237334)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 54, 521 |
|---|---|
| ID | P237334 |
| 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 [12:13] o 13'13'–o 13'13' | who seized [......] |
| Obverse [13:14] o 14'14'–o 14'14' | [...] we have [......] |
| Obverse [14:15] o 15'15'–o 15'15' | with us [....] |
| Obverse [15:23] o 16'16'– | In their rear, we are constructing the f[or]t and bringing [garrison troops] into it, so the people will become reverent, turn to other matters, and the broken heart(s) will be put in place. |
| Reverse [3:7] r 44–r 77 | I am waiting for the king, my lord. May the king, my lord, do as he finds best. I am (but) a dead dog. The king, my lord, had mercy on me and revived me. |
| Reverse [7:13] r 88–r 1313 | And regarding these words [that] have been said to the king, my lord, [which ...] my heart remembers but [...] has not heard, and (concerning which) the king, my lord, has repeatedly written to me, (thus) placing them in the heart of his servant — |
| Reverse [13:17] r 1414–r 1717 | now, let me appoint guards in the city, and let me come at once, see the face of the king, my lord, and [...] |
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 x] | |
| 2' | {1}[x] ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x x x x] | |
| 3' | ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x x x x x x x] | |
| 4' | ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ | |
| 5 | {1}[x x x x x x x x x x x] | |
| 6' | ⸢ma⸣-[x x x x x x x x x x x] | |
| 7' | ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ | |
| 8' | [x x x x x x x x x x]+⸢x x⸣ | |
| 9' | [x x x x x x x x x x x x] ⸢x⸣+[x] | |
| 10' | a-[x x x x x x x x x x] x [x] | |
| 11' | ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x x x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣-ni | |
| 12' | ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x]+⸢x x⸣ [x]-⸢da⸣-a | |
| 13' | ša₂ [x]+⸢x x⸣ iṣ-ba-⸢tu⸣ [x x x x] | |
| 14' | ⸢x⸣+[x x]+⸢x⸣-nu-u₂ nu-⸢ul⸣-[x x x x] | |
| 15' | ⸢it⸣-ti-i-ni [x x x x x x] | |
| 16' | ina ku-tal-li-šu₂-nu {⸢uru}bir-ti⸣ | |
| b.e. | ||
| 17' | ni-kaṣ₃-ṣar-ma u ⸢x⸣+[x x x] | |
| 18' | a-na ŠA₃-bi nu-še-el-li-ma | |
| r | ||
| 1 | UN-MEŠ i-pal-la-hu | |
| 2 | a-na a-mat ša₂-ni-ta-am-ma u₂-tar-ru | |
| 3 | u₃ ŠA₃-bi he-pu-u₂ iš-šak-ki-nu | |
| 4 | pa-ni LUGAL be-li₂-ia ad-da-gal | |
| 5 | LUGAL EN-a a-ki ša₂ i-le-ʾu-u₂ li-pu-⸢uš⸣ | |
| 6 | UR.KU mi-i-ti a-na-ku LUGAL EN-a | |
| 7 | re-e-mu ⸢ir-ta⸣-ša₂-a u ub-tal-liṭ-an-ni | |
| 8 | u a-na UGU ⸢dib⸣-bi a-ga-nu-ti | |
| 9 | [ša₂] ⸢a-na⸣ LUGAL ⸢EN-ia⸣ qa-bu-u₂ | |
| 10 | [x x x] ⸢x x⸣-di-i-šu₂ ŠA₃-bi ha-as-su | |
| 11 | u [x x x] ⸢x x⸣ šu-u₂ la iš-mu-u₂ | |
| 12 | u a-di 02-šu₂ 03-šu₂ LUGAL EN-a iš-pu-ram-ma | |
| 13 | ŠA₃-bi ša₂ ARAD-šu₂ u₂-ša₂-aš₂-kin | |
| 14 | en-na EN.NUN ša₂ URU lu-u₂-paq-⸢qid⸣ | |
| 15 | ⸢u₃⸣ 01-en-šu₂ lul-li-kam₂-⸢ma⸣ | |
| 16 | pa-ni ša₂ LUGAL be-li₂-ia lu-mur-[ma] | |
| 17 | [x x] ⸢x⸣ [x x x] ⸢x⸣ [x x x] | |
Sources & licences
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