CT 54, 155 (P238517)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 54, 155 |
|---|---|
| ID | P238517 |
| 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/saa21 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:1] o 1'1'–o 1'1' | anyone [......] |
| Obverse [1:3] o 2'2'–o 3'3' | Do not set yo[ur] face [towards ...]! |
| Obverse [3:4] o 4'4'–o 4'4' | He who [...s] the face of Enl[il, ...] |
| Obverse [4:5] o 5'5'–o 5'5' | my neck a hundred [......] |
| Obverse [5:7] o 6'6'– | with the land [......] |
| Bottom [0:1] b.e. 7'b.e. 7'–b.e. 7'b.e. 7' | answers [......] |
| Bottom [1:3] b.e. 8'8'– | brings [......] |
| Reverse [0:1] r 1r 1–r 1r 1 | of Assyria [..., which] |
| Reverse [1:2] r 22–r 22 | you do not know [......] |
| Reverse [2:3] r 33–r 33 | and Bit-Da[kk]u[ri ......] |
| Reverse [3:4] r 44–r 44 | t[o ......] |
| Right [0:1] r.e. 1r.e. 1–r.e. 1r.e. 1 | with him [......] |
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' | mam-ma [x x x x x] | |
| 2' | pa-ni-⸢ka x x⸣+[x x x] | |
| 3' | la ta-šak-kan [x x x] | |
| 4' | ša₂ pa-ni ša₂ {d}EN.⸢LIL₂⸣ [x x] | |
| 5' | tik-ka-a 01-me [x x x] | |
| 6' | it-ti KUR [x x x x] | |
| b.e. | ||
| 7' | ⸢ip⸣-pal [x x x x x] | |
| 8' | ub-bal [x x x x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1 | ša₂ KUR—aš-šur{⸢ki⸣} [x x x] | |
| 2 | la ti-du-⸢u₂ x⸣ [x x] | |
| 3 | u E₂—{1}⸢da-ku⸣-[ru x x] | |
| 4 | a-⸢na⸣ [x x x x x] | |
| r.e. | ||
| 1 | it-ti-šu₂ [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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