CT 54, 440 (P237748)
Letter, Neo-Babylonian, Babylon · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
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| Designation | CT 54, 440 |
|---|---|
| ID | P237748 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE |
| Genre | Letter |
| Find spot | Babylon (mod. Bābil) |
| Coordinates | 32.5350, 44.4258 |
English translation
By ORACC project saao/saa18 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:4] o 11–o 44 | A tablet of [NN] to [..., my lord]. May Nabû [and Marduk] bles[s my lord]! |
| Obverse [4:13] o 55– | May my lord by the end of Tishri (VII) give three kor (of barley) t[o ...], the ... of N[N] (and) Ina-ṣil-Bel [...], (and) two kor to [...] of Hašdaya [...]. |
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 | IM {1}[x x x x x] | |
| 2 | a-⸢na⸣ [x x x EN-ia] | |
| 3 | {d}AG [u {d}AMAR.UTU a-na EN-ia] | |
| 4 | lik-ru-[bu x x x x x x] | |
| 5 | 03 GUR a-⸢na⸣ [x x x x x x] | |
| 6 | ⸢UDU⸣.NITA₂ ša₂ {1}⸢x⸣+[x x x] | |
| b.e. | ||
| 7 | {1}ina—GIŠ.MI—{d}EN [x x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1 | 02 GUR a-na ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x] | |
| 2 | ša₂ {1}haš-da-a.a ⸢x⸣+[x x x x] | |
| 3 | a-di TIL {iti}DU₆ ⸢x⸣+[x x x x] | |
| 4 | EN lid-din [o] | |
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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