CT 54, 171 (P238599)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 54, 171 |
|---|---|
| ID | P238599 |
| 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 [0:1] o 1'1'–o 1'1' | [Your servant NN]: I would gladly di[e for the king, my lord! Say to the king, my lord]: |
| Obverse [1:2] o 2'2'–o 2'2' | [......] "The king of Ela[m] |
| Obverse [2:3] o 3'3'–o 3'3' | [has writt]en [to ...], saying: 'The crimes [...] |
| Obverse [3:4] o 4'4'–o 4'4' | [... has t]old you; on the road [...] |
| Obverse [4:5] o 5'5'–o 5'5' | [......] has exceeded Der [...] |
| Obverse [5:6] o 6'6'–o 6'6' | [......] Do we know the Aramean(s)? [...] |
| Obverse [6:7] o 7'7'–o 7'7' | [......] my [...] wrote you [...] |
| Obverse [7:8] o 8'8'–o 8'8' | [......] the Gambu[lu ...] |
| Obverse [8:9] o 9'9'–o 9'9' | [......] I will give for you [...] |
| Obverse [9:10] o 10'10'–o 10'10' | [......] there is no [...] |
| Obverse [10:14] o 11'11'–o 14'14' | [...... s]ent [...] |
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] lul-⸢lik⸣ [x x x] | |
| 2' | [x x x x x] ⸢um⸣-ma LUGAL {kur}NIM.[MA{ki} x] | |
| 3' | [x x x il-tap]-⸢ra⸣ um-ma hi-ṭa-ti i-[x x x] | |
| 4' | [x x x x iq]-⸢ta⸣-bak-ka um-ma ina KASKAL.2 ⸢x⸣+[x x x] | |
| 5' | [x x x x x] ⸢ra⸣ a-na {uru}de-ri{ki} i-ta-⸢tir⸣ [x x x] | |
| 6' | [x x x x x] {⸢lu₂⸣}a-ra-mi ni-de-e-⸢ma⸣ [x x x] | |
| 7' | [x x x x x x x]-u₂-a il-tap-rak-⸢ka⸣ [x x x] | |
| 8' | [x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ x {lu₂}gam-bu-[lu] ⸢x x⸣+[x x x] | |
| 9' | [x x x x x x x] lu-ud-dak-ka ⸢x⸣+[x x x] | |
| 10' | [x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣-ni ia-a-aʾ-⸢nu⸣ [x x x] | |
| 11' | [x x x x x x x ul]-te-bi-la x ⸢x⸣+[x x x] | |
| 12' | [x x x x x x x x x] bi ⸢x⸣+[x x x] | |
| 13' | [x x x x x x x x x] ⸢ta x⸣+[x x x x x x] | |
| 14' | [x x x x x x x x x x x]+⸢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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