CT 54, 003 (P237922)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 54, 003 |
|---|---|
| ID | P237922 |
| 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/saa17 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:4] o 1o 1–o 44 | Tablet of Kinâ to Nergal-naṣir, my brother: I am well, may my brother be well too! |
| Obverse [4:8] o 55–o 88 | It can't be true that my brother is severely ill! Now [...] |
| Reverse [1:3] r 2'2'–r 3'3' | Get back your health and write! |
| Reverse [3:7] r 4'4'–r 7'7' | (As to) the ostrich egg(s) of which my brother wrote to me, by Bel and Nabû, they are not available in Nippur. |
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 | ṭup-pi {1}ki-na-a | |
| 2 | a-na {1}{d}U.GUR—APIN-ir ŠEŠ-ia₂ | |
| 3 | šu-lum ia-a-ši | |
| 4 | lu-u₂ šu-lum a-na ŠEŠ-ia₂ | |
| 5 | ki-i aš₂-mu-u₂ | |
| 6 | um-ma ŠEŠ-u₂-a | |
| 7 | ⸢dan-niš mar⸣-ṣu en-na | |
| 8 | [x x x]+⸢x⸣ [x x]+⸢x⸣ | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [x x x x]-bi | |
| 2' | [x x] šu-lum-gu | |
| 3' | ⸢hu⸣-us-sa-am-ma | |
| 4' | šu-pur ⸢pe⸣-el lu-ur-mu | |
| 5' | ša₂ ŠEŠ-u₂-a iš-pu-ra | |
| 6' | d.EN u {d}PA lu-u₂ | |
| 7' | i-du-u₂ ki-i | |
| 8' | ina EN.LIL₂{ki} i-ba-šu-u₂ | |
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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