CT 54, 581 (P237554)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 54, 581 |
|---|---|
| ID | P237554 |
| Museum no. | BM 099170 |
| 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/saa17 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Reverse [0:2] r 1r 1–r 22 | (As to) what you wrote: "[......], our wish [......]" — |
| Reverse [2:5] r 33–r 55 | When I sent to you, w[hy] did he bring [...] but [you withhel]d from him the 2 cam[els] (and) all the [...] that the Saba'u [had brought] as [tribute]? |
| Reverse [5:6] r 66–r 66 | Th[is] matter [......] |
| Reverse [6:7] r 77–r 77 | [...] wine that [......] |
| Reverse [7:8] r 88–r 88 | [...] listened to me, sa[ying, "....."] |
| Reverse [8:11] r 99–r 1111 | [...] you throw [......] |
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) |
|---|---|---|
| r | ||
| 1 | ⸢ša₂⸣ taš-pu-ra um-⸢ma⸣ [x x x x x x x x x] | |
| 2 | [o] um-ma ṣi-bu-ta-nu ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x x x] | |
| 3 | ⸢ki⸣-i al-tap-rak-ka mi-[nam-ma x x x x x] | |
| 4 | [it]-ta-ša₂-a u₃ 02 {anše}A.⸢AB⸣.[BA-MEŠ x x x] | |
| 5 | [ma]-la {lu₂}sa-ba-aʾ ki-⸢i⸣ [x x x x x x x] | |
| 6 | [tak]-⸢la⸣-aš₂-šu₂ a-ma-tu ši-[i x x x x x x] | |
| 7 | [x x]-⸢ru⸣ ka-ra-ni ša₂ ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x x x] | |
| 8 | [x x] ⸢il⸣-te-man-ni ⸢um⸣-[ma x x x x x x x] | |
| 9 | [x x x] ta-nam-⸢di⸣ [x x x x x x x x] | |
| 10 | [x x x x] a ta ⸢šu⸣ [x x x x x x x x] | |
| 11 | [x x x x x] ⸢x⸣ [x x x x 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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