CT 54, 174 (P238004)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 54, 174 |
|---|---|
| ID | P238004 |
| 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 [0:5] o 1o 1–o 55 | To the king, my lord: yo[ur servant] Lanšê. [Good he]alth to the king, my lord! [Say] to the king, my lord, for the well-being of the king, my lord: |
| Obverse [5:15] o 66–o 1515 | [No]w, concerning the [host]ages of the Hindareans of whom the king, my l[ord], wrote, I never take anyone — if he is a hostage or not a hostage — and imprison him in the garrison of the king, my lord! I bear (personally) the responsibility for all hostages of the Hindareans who are with me. |
| Obverse [15:18] o 1616– | Now, regarding those two soldiers, who were with them, they have come. |
| Bottom [0:1] b.e. 18b.e. 18–b.e. 18b.e. 18 | Their [...] in [...] |
| Reverse [0:1] r 1r 1–r 1r 1 | [...]. Because they are [...] |
| Reverse [1:2] r 22–r 22 | [... he has] written. |
| Reverse [2:3] r 33–r 33 | Their [...]s will bring the hostages here. |
| Reverse [3:7] r 44–r 77 | As to the work on the river, of which the king, my lord, gave me orders: I am now working on it. |
| Reverse [7:10] r 88–r 1010 | As to the ungelded bulls of which the king, my lord, spoke, I am now choosing them. |
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 be-li₂-ia | |
| 2 | [ARAD]-⸢ka⸣ {1}la-an-še-e | |
| 3 | [lu] ⸢DI⸣-mu a-na LUGAL be-li₂-ia | |
| 4 | [um-ma] a-na LUGAL be-li₂-ia-a-ma | |
| 5 | [um-ma a]-⸢na⸣ DI-mu LUGAL be-li₂-ia | |
| 6 | [a-du]-⸢u₂⸣ ina UGU-hi | |
| 7 | {[lu₂}maš]-⸢ka⸣-na-ti ša₂ | |
| 8 | {⸢lu₂⸣}hi-⸢in⸣-dar ša₂ LUGAL ⸢be⸣-[li₂] | |
| 9 | iš-pur {lu₂}maš-⸢ka⸣-[nu] | |
| 10 | la {lu₂}maš-ka-nu ki-i | |
| 11 | ⸢ab⸣-ba-kam₂-ma ina E₂ | |
| 12 | ma-ṣar-ti ša₂ LUGAL be-li₂-ia | |
| 13 | a-kil-lu-u₂ pu-ut {lu₂}maš-ka-na-ti | |
| 14 | ša₂ {lu₂}hi-in-dar-a.a | |
| 15 | ma-la ina pa-ni-ia na-ša₂-ka | |
| 16 | a-du-u₂ ša₂ 02 ERIM-MEŠ | |
| 17 | ⸢it⸣-ti-šu₂-nu ⸢it-tal⸣-ku-nu | |
| b.e. | ||
| 18 | [x]-MEŠ-šu₂-nu ina ⸢x⸣+[x x] | |
| 19 | ⸢x⸣+[x x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1 | [x x] aš₂-ša₂ šu₂-nu [x x x x] | |
| 2 | [il]-tap-ra {lu₂}maš-ka-na-ti | |
| 3 | [x x]-MEŠ-šu₂-nu ib-ba-ku-nu | |
| 4 | [i-na] UGU-hi dul-lu ša₂ ID₂ | |
| 5 | ša₂ LUGAL be-li ṭe₃-e-mu | |
| 6 | iš-kun-an-ni a-du-u₂ | |
| 7 | ina UGU-hi u₂-šu-za-ka | |
| 8 | ina UGU-hi {gud}ŠU.DU₇-MEŠ | |
| 9 | ša₂ LUGAL be-li iq-ba-a | |
| 10 | a-du-u₂ a-ha-ri | |
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
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