CT 54, 129 (P238479)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 54, 129 |
|---|---|
| ID | P238479 |
| 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' | [of the ki]ng, o[ur] lord, [...]. |
| Obverse [2:8] o 3'3'– | [N]ow then, just a[s the king], our [lo]rd, wrote to u[s, w]e are working on the [...]s of the crow[n], and are waiting f[or the king], our [lor]d. |
| Reverse [0:6] r 1r 1–r 66 | [The king who] sen[t pre]sents (and) is mak[ing ...] a crown without [equal f]or Bel — [Bel and] Nabû [will give him] lon[g] days, everlast[ing ye]ars |
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] | |
| 2' | [ša₂] ⸢LUGAL⸣ be-li-⸢ni⸣ [x x x] | |
| 3' | [en]-⸢na⸣ a-du-u₂ ⸢ki⸣-[i ša₂] | |
| 4' | [LUGAL] ⸢EN⸣-ni iš-pur-an-⸢na⸣-[šu₂] | |
| 5' | [x x]+⸢x⸣-ri ša₂ a-gi-[i] | |
| 6' | [ni]-⸢ip⸣-pu-uš-ma pa-⸢an⸣ [LUGAL] | |
| 7' | [be]-⸢li⸣-ni nu-šad-[gal] | |
| r | ||
| 1 | [x x x]-ma-ni iš-⸢pu⸣-[ra] | |
| 2 | [x x]+⸢x⸣ a-gu-u₂ ša₂ la ⸢x⸣+[x x] | |
| 3 | [a]-⸢na⸣ {d}EN ⸢ip-pu⸣-[šu] | |
| 4 | {[d}EN u] {d}AG UD-MEŠ GID₂.⸢DA⸣-[MEŠ] | |
| 5 | [MU].⸢AN⸣.NA-MEŠ da-⸢ra-a⸣-[ti] | |
| 6 | [x x x] ⸢x x⸣ [x x x] | |
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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