CT 54, 145 (P238504)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 54, 145 |
|---|---|
| ID | P238504 |
| 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 [0:5] o 1o 1–o 55 | [Your servant Marduk: I would gladly die for the king, my lord]! May Nabû and [Marduk] bless [th]e king! Say to the king, [my] lord: |
| Obverse [5:8] o 66–o 88 | Ezida and the shrines and temples are well. |
| Obverse [8:9] o 99–o 99 | [...] very |
| Obverse [9:11] o 1010–o 1111 | [...] may [...] |
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}mar-duk] | |
| 2 | [a-na di-na-an LUGAL be-li₂-ia] | |
| 3 | [lul-lik d].AG u₃ {[d}AMAR.UTU] | |
| 4 | [a]-⸢na⸣ LUGAL lik-ru-[bu] | |
| 5 | ⸢um⸣-ma-a a-na LUGAL be-⸢li₂⸣-[ia-a-ma] | |
| 6 | ⸢šul⸣-lum a-na E₂.ZI.⸢DA⸣ | |
| 7 | u₃ a-na E₂.KUR-⸢MEŠ⸣ | |
| 8 | a-na E₂—DINGIR-MEŠ E₂—DINGIR-MEŠ [x x] | |
| 9 | [x] ki-i—ma-⸢de⸣-[e ki-i—ma-⸢de⸣-[e x x x] | |
| 10 | [x]-u₂ lu-u₂ [x x x x] | |
| 11 | [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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