CT 54, 042 (P238121)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 54, 042 |
|---|---|
| ID | P238121 |
| 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 [0:6] o 1o 1–o 66 | [To the kin]g, my lord: [your servant Nabû-a]hhe-lumur. [Good health to] the king, my lord! The city and the guard [of the king], my lord, are well. [The tro]ops of the king, my lord, are well. |
| Obverse [6:9] o 77–o 99 | [Perhaps] the king, my lord, [will] say: "What [news] is there?" |
| Obverse [9:26] o 1010– | When the [Hamaran]eans, [the] Lihuateans, [the] Rabileans (and) their people were starving for (lack of) bread, they entered [...], saying: "[May] the king [sen]d [bread] to us and [...] them with [the Hat]alleans |
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}{d}AG]—⸢ŠEŠ⸣-MEŠ—lu-mur | |
| 3 | [lu-u₂ šul-mu a]-⸢na⸣ LUGAL be-li₂-ia₂ | |
| 4 | [šul-mu a]-⸢na⸣ URU u EN.NUN | |
| 5 | [ša₂ LUGAL be]-⸢li₂⸣-ia šul-mu | |
| 6 | [a-na] ⸢ERIM⸣-MEŠ ša₂ LUGAL be-li₂-ia₂ | |
| 7 | [min-de-e-ma] LUGAL be-li₂ i-qab-bi | |
| 8 | [um-ma] ⸢mi⸣-nu-u₂ | |
| 9 | [ṭe₃-mu]-ma NINDA-⸢HI.A⸣ | |
| 10 | {[lu₂}ha-mar]-na-a.a-a | |
| 11 | {⸢lu₂⸣}li-hu-a-ta-a.a | |
| 12 | {[lu₂]}ra-bi-la-a.a | |
| 13 | [UN-MEŠ]-⸢šu₂⸣-nu ki-i | |
| 14 | [o] ⸢ib⸣-ru-u₂ a-na | |
| r | ||
| 1 | [x x x x x x] | |
| 2 | [x x x x x x] | |
| 3 | i-ter-bu [x x x] | |
| 4 | um-ma LUGAL a-⸢na⸣ | |
| 5 | ⸢UGU⸣-hi-in-⸢ni⸣ [NINDA-HI.A] | |
| 6 | [liš-pu]-ra-⸢ma⸣ | |
| 7 | [x x] it-ti | |
| 8 | {[lu₂}ha]-⸢tal⸣-la-a.a | |
| 9 | [x x x]-šu₂-⸢nu-tu⸣ | |
| 10 | [x x x] ⸢x⸣+[x x] | |
| 11 | [x x x x]-⸢u₂⸣ | |
Sources & licences
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