CT 54, 143 (P238500)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 54, 143 |
|---|---|
| ID | P238500 |
| 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 [0:3] o 1o 1–o 33 | Your servant [Naṣib-il: I would gladly die for my lord]! Say t[o the king, my lord]: |
| Obverse [3:5] o 44–o 55 | Concerning what the king, [my] lord, [wrote] to me: "[......] |
| Obverse [5:6] o 66–o 66 | for the ... [...] |
| Obverse [6:7] o 77–o 77 | one among them [...] |
| Obverse [7:8] o 88–o 88 | knows them. For [...] |
| Obverse [8:9] o 99–o 99 | unlike an e[nemy ...] |
| Obverse [9:11] o 1010–o 1111 | [to] our [e]ars [...] |
| Reverse [1:2] r 2'2'–r 2'2' | for [...] |
| Reverse [2:3] r 33–r 33 | Be[l-... ...] |
| Reverse [3:4] r 4'4'–r 4'4' | are jubilant [...] |
| Right [0:1] r.e. 6r.e. 6–r.e. 6r.e. 6 | I sent [...] to [the king, my lord], on the 9th day [...]. |
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 | ARAD-ka {1}na-ṣib—DINGIR] | |
| 2 | a-na di-⸢na⸣-[an be-li₂-ia lul-lik] | |
| 3 | um-ma-a a-[na LUGAL be-li₂-ia-ma] | |
| 4 | ša₂ LUGAL be-li₂-[a iš-pu-ra-an-ni] | |
| 5 | um-ma ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x] | |
| 6 | a-na kip-na-[x x x x x x] | |
| 7 | 01-en ina ŠA₃-bi-⸢šu⸣-[nu x x x x x] | |
| 8 | i-du-šu₂ a-na [x x x x x x] | |
| 9 | ⸢ul⸣ ki-i {lu₂}⸢ze⸣-[ʾi-ra-nu x x] | |
| 10 | [a-na] ⸢PI⸣.2-ni ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x] | |
| 11 | [x x] ⸢du⸣ [x x x x x x x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | ⸢x x⸣+[x x x x x x x x] | |
| 2' | a-⸢na x⸣+[x x x x x x] | |
| 3 | {1}{d}⸢EN⸣—[x x x x x] | |
| 4' | ha-mu-u ⸢x⸣ [x x x x] | |
| 5' | ⸢x⸣ [x x] ur [x x] | |
| r.e. | ||
| 6 | UD 09-KAM₂ a-na ⸢LUGAL⸣ [be-li₂-ia₂] | |
| 7 | al-tap-⸢ra⸣ [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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