CT 54, 541 (P237415)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 54, 541 |
|---|---|
| ID | P237415 |
| 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 [0:2] o 1'1'–o 2'2' | [about which the king, my lord], wrote, [he said to me] as follows: |
| Obverse [2:3] o 3'3'–o 3'3' | "The eclipse [... the region] |
| Obverse [3:4] o 4'4'–o 4'4' | which it touched [...] |
| Obverse [4:5] o 5'5'–o 5'5' | [...] the decision [...] |
| Obverse [5:6] o 6'6'–o 6'6' | [the ...]eans; and [...] |
| Obverse [7:10] o 8'8'–o 10'10' | t[o ......] |
| Reverse [1:2] r 2'2'–r 2'2' | looked [...] |
| Reverse [2:3] r 3'3'–r 3'3' | This [...] Na[bû-...] |
| Reverse [3:4] r 4'4'–r 4'4' | to the advice [...] |
| Reverse [4:5] r 5'5'–r 5'5' | ... and in [...] |
| Reverse [5:6] r 6'6'–r 6'6' | after me [...] |
| Reverse [6:7] r 7'7'–r 7'7' | will make him overcome [...] |
| Reverse [7:8] r 8'8'–r 8'8' | to the message [...] |
| Reverse [8:9] r 9'9'–r 9'9' | and you [...] the word of the tablet |
| Reverse [9:11] r 10'10'–r 11'11' | [...] to [...] |
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 iš-pu⸣-[ru ki-i] | |
| 2' | pi-i an-⸢ni⸣-[i x x] | |
| 3' | um-ma AN.MI [x x x] | |
| 4' | ⸢E₂⸣ il-pu-tu ⸢x⸣+[x x x] | |
| 5' | ⸢x x⸣-ti EŠ.BAR ⸢x⸣+[x x x] | |
| 6' | ⸢x x⸣-a.a u₃ ⸢šu₂ x⸣ [x x x] | |
| 7' | ⸢ṭu⸣-[x x x x x x] | |
| 8' | a-⸢na⸣ [x x x x x x] | |
| 9' | ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x x x] | |
| 10' | ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [x x x] ⸢x⸣ [x x x x x] | |
| 2' | ⸢id⸣-gul [x x x x x] | |
| 3' | a-ga-a {1}{d}⸢AG⸣—[x x x x] | |
| 4' | a-⸢na⸣ mil-ki ⸢x⸣+[x x x x] | |
| 5' | ba-tu-ma ina ⸢ra⸣-[x x x x] | |
| 6' | ar₂-ki-ia it-[x x x x] | |
| 7' | ⸢u₂-ša₂-an⸣-ṣu-šu₂ ⸢x⸣+[x x x x] | |
| 8' | a-na na-aš₂-par-ti [x x x] | |
| 9' | u a-mat ṭup-pi ta-[x x x] | |
| 10' | ⸢x⸣+[x x x]+⸢x⸣ a-na [x x x] | |
| 11' | [x x x]+⸢x⸣+[x]+⸢x⸣+[x x x x] | |
Sources & licences
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- 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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