CT 54, 162 (P238525)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 54, 162 |
|---|---|
| ID | P238525 |
| 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 [2:3] o 3'3'–o 3'3' | you [......] |
| Obverse [3:4] o 4'4'–o 4'4' | he will he[ar ......] |
| Reverse [0:1] r 1r 1–r 1r 1 | in th[is] city [......] |
| Reverse [1:2] r 22–r 22 | about kill[ing ...] |
| Reverse [2:3] r 33–r 33 | in Elam [...] |
| Reverse [3:4] r 44–r 44 | to an Ela[mite] servant [...] |
| Reverse [4:6] r 55–r 66 | called out [...] |
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 x] | |
| 2' | [x x x x x x x] | |
| 3' | at-ta [x x x x x] | |
| 4' | i-⸢šem⸣-[me x x x x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1 | ⸢i⸣-na URU an-[ni-i x x x] | |
| 2 | a-na UGU da-⸢a⸣-[ki x x] | |
| 3 | ina {kur}NIM i-[x x x] | |
| 4 | a-na ARAD {lu₂}⸢NIM⸣.[MA{ki}a.a x x] | |
| 5 | ⸢is⸣-si-⸢ma⸣ [x x x] | |
| 6 | [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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