CT 54, 018 (P238006)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 54, 018 |
|---|---|
| ID | P238006 |
| 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 [0:1] o 1'1'–o 1'1' | [of] the king, [my] lord, |
| Obverse [1:3] o 2'2'–o 3'3' | which the king sen[t], I have safely led here. |
| Obverse [3:14] o 4'4'– | Also the eunuch whom the king, my lord, sent, has come up to Arrapha for my lawsuit. Now, on the 2nd day, I have brought him safely across the river. |
| Reverse [3:4] r 44–r 44 | The fortress of the king, my lord, is well. |
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' | LUGAL be-⸢li₂⸣-[ia₂] | |
| 2' | ša₂ LUGAL ⸢u₂-še-bi-la⸣ | |
| 3' | ina šu-lum a-tab-ka | |
| 4' | u₃ {⸢lu₂}SAG⸣ ša₂ LUGAL | |
| 5' | be-li₂-a ⸢iš⸣-pur | |
| 6' | ina {uru}ar₂-ra-ap-hi | |
| 7' | a-na ṣal-ti-ia | |
| 8' | i-te-la-a | |
| b.e. | ||
| 9' | en-na <$a-du-u₂$> | |
| r | ||
| 1 | a-du-u₂ | |
| 2 | UD 02-KAM₂ ina šu-lum | |
| 3 | ID₂ ul-te-bi-ir-ri | |
| 4 | šu-lum a-na ⸢bir⸣-ta | |
| 5 | LUGAL be-li₂-ia₂ | |
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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