CT 54, 047 (P238131)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 54, 047 |
|---|---|
| ID | P238131 |
| 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 [1:2] o 2'2'–o 2'2' | [......] Qanâ [...] |
| Obverse [2:3] o 3'3'–o 3'3' | [......] they did not mobi[lise] |
| Obverse [3:4] o 4'4'–o 4'4' | [......] saying: "I stood a[nd] |
| Obverse [4:5] o 5'5'–o 5'5' | [......] judgement of the city [...] |
| Obverse [5:6] o 6'6'–o 6'6' | [......] our [...]s to our presence |
| Obverse [6:7] o 7'7'–o 7'7' | [......] Nabû-mar-šarri-uṣur |
| Obverse [7:8] o 8'8'–o 8'8' | [......] has come [to] us |
| Obverse [8:9] o 9'9'–o 9'9' | [......] saying: "The king by the name of the gods |
| Obverse [9:11] o 10'10'– | [......] until Na'id-Marduk |
| Reverse [0:1] r 1r 1–r 1r 1 | [......] I will send his [...] |
| Reverse [1:2] r 22–r 22 | [......] our lord |
| Reverse [2:3] r 33–r 33 | [......] we have come |
| Reverse [3:4] r 44–r 44 | [......] to the river |
| Reverse [4:5] r 55–r 55 | [......] the word of the king |
| Reverse [5:6] r 66–r 66 | [......] me. The king knows |
| Reverse [6:7] r 77–r 77 | [......] their lord |
| Reverse [7:8] r 88–r 88 | [......] will survive. |
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' | [x x x x x x x x x a]-⸢di⸣ i-⸢nam⸣-[x x] | |
| 2' | [x x x x x x x x x x {1}qa-na-a ⸢x⸣+[x x] | |
| 3' | [x x x x x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣-ma ul id-⸢ku⸣-[u₂] | |
| 4' | [x x x x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣-u₂ um-ma a-ziz-⸢ma⸣ | |
| 5' | [x x x x x x x x x x]-⸢li⸣ di-i-ni URU ⸢ba⸣-[x] | |
| 6' | [x x x x x x x x x x]-⸢MEŠ⸣-ni a-na pa-ni-ni | |
| 7' | [x x x x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣-ma {1}{d}PA—DUMU—LUGAL—ŠEŠ | |
| 8' | [x x x x x x x x a-na] ⸢pa⸣-ni-ni it-tal-ka | |
| 9' | [x x x x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ um-ma LUGAL MU DINGIR-MEŠ | |
| 10' | [x x x x x x x x x x] a-di {1}na-id—{d}AMAR.UTU | |
| r | ||
| 1 | [x x x x x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣-šu₂ a-šap-par | |
| 2 | [x x x x x x x x x x] be-li₂-i-ni | |
| 3 | [x x x x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ ni-it-tal-ka | |
| 4 | [x x x x x x x x x x]-⸢lah₃⸣ a-na ID₂ | |
| 5 | [x x x x x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ a-mat ša₂ LUGAL | |
| 6 | [x x x x x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣-an-ni LUGAL i-di | |
| 7 | [x x x x x x x x x x x] be-li₂-šu₂-nu | |
| 8 | [x x x x x x x x x x i]-⸢bal-luṭ⸣ [o] | |
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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