CT 54, 439 (P237735)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 54, 439 |
|---|---|
| ID | P237735 |
| 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 |
|---|---|
| Reverse [1:2] r 2'2'–r 2'2' | I sen[t ......] |
| Reverse [2:3] r 3'3'–r 3'3' | with [......] |
| Reverse [3:5] r 4'4'–r 5'5' | are making the land slip from the hands of the king. The two [...] who are going, are important (men) in the region [...] |
| Reverse [5:6] r 6'6'–r 6'6' | Šuma-iddin and Ubaru [...] ther[e], |
| Reverse [6:7] r 7'7'–r 7'7' | but they are not competent with horses [...] |
| Reverse [7:8] r 8'8'–r 8'8' | [...] ... and all the chariot-poles [...] |
| Reverse [8:9] r 9'9'–r 9'9' | [...] to do away with the servants o[f ...] |
| Reverse [9:11] r 10'10'–r 11'11' | [...] the chamberlain [...] |
| Edge [0:1] e. 1e. 1–e. 1e. 1 | [......] to Elam [......] |
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' | ⸢x x⸣ [x x x x x x x x x x x] | |
| 2' | aš₂-pu-⸢ru⸣ [x x x x x x x x x x] | |
| 3' | it-ti ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x x x x x] | |
| 4' | KUR la—⸢ŠU⸣.2 LUGAL ⸢u₂-šel-lu⸣-u₂ 02 [x x x] | |
| 5' | ša₂ ⸢il-lak⸣ ina KI.TIM kab-tu ⸢x⸣+[x x x] | |
| 6' | {1}MU—SUM-na u {1}u₂-ba-ru ina ŠA₃-⸢bi⸣ [x x x] | |
| 7' | u₃ {anše}KUR.RA ⸢ul⸣ i-le-ʾu-[u₂ x x] | |
| 8' | ⸢bi⸣-du-ur u₃ sir₂-de-e ma-⸢la⸣ [x x] | |
| 9' | [x x]-šu hu-lu-qa ša₂ ARAD-MEŠ ⸢ša₂⸣ [x x x] | |
| 10' | [x x]-⸢lu⸣-u₂ {lu₂}ša₂—UGU—E₂-a-⸢ni⸣ [x x x] | |
| 11' | [x x x] ⸢x⸣ [x] ⸢x x x x⸣ [x x x] | |
| e. | ||
| 1 | [x x x x x x x x] ⸢ana {kur}NIM⸣.MA{ki} ka-[x x x] | |
| 2 | [x x 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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