CT 54, 156 (P238518)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 54, 156 |
|---|---|
| ID | P238518 |
| 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 | Yo[ur ser]vant In[a-tešî-eṭir: I would gladly die for] the king of the lands, my lord! May [Nabû and Marduk bless] the king of the lands, my lord! |
| Obverse [3:13] o 44–o 1313 | The report on Babylon [is excellent]. The Babylonians are hap[py. They go] daily to the tem[ple] of their lords, Bel and Nabû [...], to Esaggil. [They pr]ay daily to [Mardu]k and Zarpa[nitu] for the good health [of the king of the la]nds, my lord. |
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}⸢ina⸣—[SUH₃—KAR-ir a-na di-na-an] | |
| 2 | LUGAL KUR.KUR be-li₂-⸢ia₂⸣ [lul-lik {d}AG u {d}AMAR.UTU] | |
| 3 | a-na LUGAL KUR.KUR be-li₂-⸢ia⸣ [lik-ru-bu] | |
| 4 | ṭe₃-e-mu ša₂ TIN.TIR{⸢ki⸣} [ma-aʾ-diš ba-ni] | |
| 5 | {lu₂}TIN.TIR{ki}MEŠ ha-[mu-u₂] | |
| 6 | UD-mu-us-su a-na E₂—[DINGIR-MEŠ] E₂—[DINGIR-MEŠ] | |
| 7 | be-li₂-šu₂-nu {d}EN u {d}AG [x x] | |
| 8 | a-na E₂.SAG.⸢IL₂⸣ [il-la-ku] | |
| 9 | UD-mu-us-su a-⸢na⸣ | |
| 10 | [ba-laṭ nap-ša₂-a-ti ša₂] | |
| 11 | [LUGAL] ⸢KUR⸣.KUR be-li₂-⸢ia₂⸣ | |
| 12 | {[d}AMAR].⸢UTU⸣ u {d}zar-pa-[ni-tum] | |
| 13 | [u₂-ṣal]-⸢lu-u₂⸣ [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)
- electronic Babylonian Library (eBL), LMU Munich · MIT (eBL Zenodo dataset); platform terms unverified · electronic Babylonian Library (eBL), LMU Munich, https://www.ebl.lmu.de/ ; Zenodo dataset (MIT)
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