CT 54, 013 (P237997)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 54, 013 |
|---|---|
| ID | P237997 |
| 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 |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:4] o 1o 1–o 44 | T[o the king, my lord: your] ser[vant, NN]. Good [health] t[o the king, my lord]! |
| Obverse [4:11] o 55– | All is w[ell with the watch] of [the temples] of [the king, my lord]. May the gods [...] bles[s the king, my lord]! |
| Bottom [0:13] b.e. 11b.e. 11– | The gods of De[r], Nana[ya], Gul[a], Mar-Biti (and) Marat-Biti, who wen[t] from the fo[rt] with [...] to the city [..., are] in Baby[lon]. The king, [my lord], should k[now] (it). |
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 | ⸢a⸣-[na LUGAL EN-ia₂] | |
| 2 | ⸢ARAD⸣-[ka {1}x x x] | |
| 3 | lu-[u DI-mu] | |
| 4 | a-[na LUGAL EN-ia₂] | |
| 5 | ⸢DI⸣-[mu a-na EN.NUN] | |
| 6 | ša₂ [E₂—DINGIR-MEŠ] [E₂—DINGIR-MEŠ] | |
| 7 | ša₂ [LUGAL EN-ia₂] | |
| 8 | {d}⸢x⸣+[x x x x] | |
| 9 | a-⸢na⸣ [LUGAL EN-ia₂] | |
| 10 | lik-ru-⸢bu⸣ | |
| b.e. | ||
| 11 | DINGIR-MEŠ [o] | |
| 12 | ša₂ {uru}de-⸢ri⸣ | |
| 13 | {d}na-na-[a] | |
| r | ||
| 1 | {d}gu-⸢la⸣ | |
| 2 | {⸢d⸣}DUMU—⸢E₂⸣ | |
| 3 | {d}DUMU.MI₂—⸢E₂⸣ | |
| 4 | ša₂ ul-tu₂ {uru}HAL.[ṢU] | |
| 5 | it-ti {⸢d⸣}[x x] | |
| 6 | a-na {uru}[x x] | |
| 7 | il-⸢lik⸣-[ku] | |
| 8 | ina {uru}KA₂.⸢DINGIR⸣.[RA{ki]} | |
| 9 | LUGAL [EN-a] | |
| 10 | lu-u ⸢i⸣-[di] | |
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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