CT 54, 588 (P237573)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 54, 588 |
|---|---|
| ID | P237573 |
| Museum no. | BM 099285 |
| 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/saa21 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:1] o 22–o 22 | [To the king, my lord: your servant] Laba[ši, ...]. |
| Obverse [1:6] o 33–o 77 | Good health t]o the king, [my] lord! May [... Aššu]r, Šamaš and Ma[rduk overthrow] your [...]s, [may their ...] be mixed, [may] our command [...], (and) may [their ...s] be struck down. |
| Obverse [6:8] o 88–o 99 | [...] of Etemen[...] |
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 | ||
| 2 | [ARAD-ka {1}la—ba-[ši x x x] | |
| 3 | [lu-u₂ šu-lum a]-⸢na⸣ LUGAL be-⸢li₂⸣-[ia] | |
| 4 | [x x {d}aš]-⸢šur⸣ {d}UTU u {d}⸢AMAR⸣.[UTU] | |
| 5 | [x x] ⸢x⸣-li-ka li-⸢is⸣-[x x x x x] | |
| 6 | [li]-⸢ta⸣-sam-me-eh pi-ni i-[x x] | |
| 7 | [x] ⸢x⸣ lu-u ha-tu-u₂ [x x] | |
| 8 | [x x] ⸢x⸣-mu-u₂ E₂ te-⸢x⸣ [x x] | |
| 9 | [x x x x x] ⸢x bal⸣ [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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