CT 54, 045 (P238128)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 54, 045 |
|---|---|
| ID | P238128 |
| 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 |
|---|---|
| Reverse [0:4] r 1'1'–r 4'4' | May I not d[ie ...! Until] I se[e] another [...], do not 'seize' your heart but come and [see] the face of Bel! |
| Reverse [4:13] r 5'5'–r 13'13' | I swear by Bel and Nabû that nobod[y] has taken aw[ay] your dynastic house, that you indeed will see your dynastic house grow old in extreme old age. And we know for sure, that your son and your son's son will rule your [..., and th]at th[ey] indeed will [...] |
| Edge [0:1] e. 1e. 1–e. 1e. 1 | [...] they should go [...]. |
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) |
|---|---|---|
| r | ||
| 1' | [x x x]+⸢x⸣ la a-⸢ma⸣-[ti] | |
| 2' | [x x]+⸢x⸣ ša₂-ni-tu₂ am-ma-[ru o] | |
| 3' | ⸢ŠA₃⸣-ba-ka la tah-ha-⸢az⸣ [o] | |
| 4' | al-⸢kam₂⸣-ma pa-ni ša₂ {d}EN [a-mur] | |
| 5' | d.EN u {d}PA ki-i mam-⸢ma⸣ [o] | |
| 6' | E₂—⸢AD⸣-ka E₂—⸢AD⸣-ka i-te-eṭ-[ru] | |
| 7' | u ki-i a-di-i ina ši-bu-⸢tu⸣ | |
| 8' | u lit-tu-⸢tu⸣ E₂—AD-ka E₂—AD-ka | |
| 9' | tu-lab-ba-ru u ni-di-⸢i⸣ [ki-i] | |
| 10' | DUMU-ka DUMU—DUMU-ka DUMU—DUMU-ka [o] | |
| 11' | ⸢x x⸣-ka i-rad-du-⸢u₂⸣ [o] | |
| 12' | [u ki]-⸢i⸣ a-di-⸢i i-x⸣+[x x x] | |
| 13' | [x x] ⸢x⸣ [x x x x x] | |
| e. | ||
| 1 | [x x x x]+⸢x⸣ lil-li-⸢ku⸣ | |
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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