CT 54, 187 (P238661)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 54, 187 |
|---|---|
| ID | P238661 |
| 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/saa18 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:1] o 1'1'–o 1'1' | [......] to |
| Obverse [1:2] o 2'2'–o 2'2' | [......] my words |
| Obverse [2:3] o 3'3'–o 3'3' | [......] every day |
| Obverse [3:4] o 4'4'–o 4'4' | [......] they [d]o |
| Obverse [4:5] o 5'5'–o 5'5' | [...... The king] should know it. |
| Obverse [5:7] o 6'6'–o 7'7' | [......] my [...] to the king |
| Reverse [0:2] r 1'1'–r 2'2' | [When the chief t]ailor of the king of Babylon came [..., he ...] against [...]. |
| Reverse [2:7] r 3'3'–r 7'7' | [...] Abi-yaqî passes by my [...]s, (and) has changed [...]; and the kin[g] of [B]abylon has shed [...] |
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 a-na⸣ | |
| 2' | [x x x x]-⸢nu⸣ dib-bi-⸢ia₂⸣ | |
| 3' | [x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ UD-mu-us-su | |
| 4' | [x x x ip]-pu-šu₂ | |
| 5' | [x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ lu-u₂ i-di | |
| 6' | [x x x x x]+⸢x⸣-ia₂ a-na LUGAL | |
| 7' | [x x x x x x] ⸢x x x⸣ | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [x x {lu₂}GAL]—⸢ka⸣-ṣir {lu₂}GAL]—⸢ka⸣-ṣir ša₂ LUGAL TIN.TIR{ki} | |
| 2' | [x x ki-i] ⸢il⸣-li-ka ina UGU-hi | |
| 3' | [x x x x x] {1}AD—ia-⸢qi₂-i⸣ | |
| 4' | [x x x x x]-MEŠ-ia₂ it-ti-iq | |
| 5' | [x x x x x x] ⸢ul⸣-te-in-ni u ⸢LUGAL TIN⸣.TIR [o] | |
| 6' | [x x x x x x] ⸢it⸣-tab-ka | |
| 7' | [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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