CT 54, 189 (P238663)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 54, 189 |
|---|---|
| ID | P238663 |
| 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 [1:7] o 2'2'–o 7'7' | [... no one r]emained [in Elam, they have returned to Babylon. They tell me t]he news of Marduk-šarru-uṣur: [“We have seen (it)], he [we]nt for dinner to [Tammaritu] [i]n our presence.” [I have sent other] men, too, telling them to go and [speak] with him, [come back and] give me a [si]gn from him. |
| Obverse [7:9] o 8'8'–o 9'9' | [As soon as I heard (this) report], I wrote to the king, my lord: “Šamaš-šumu]-ukin [......] |
| Reverse [1:7] r 2'2'–r 7'7' | [If it pleases the king, my lord, [let the king, m]y lord, [command that] they [should be] shown a house in Nineveh and [live there, and let me send] my domestics [of foreign origin, who] were settled [in Nippu]r, to live [with them, and may the(ir) exile come to an end]. |
| Reverse [7:8] r 8'8'–r 8'8' | [My blood] is [in A]ssyria, [among the blood of the l]and of Akkad. |
| Reverse [8:9] r 9'9'–r 9'9' | [But the Chaldeans from Assyria ...], if [... |
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 x x x] | |
| 2' | [ina {kur}NIM.MA{ki} 01-en ul] ⸢im-mir-ka a-na⸣ | |
| 3' | [TIN.TIR{ki} it-te-eh-su-ni] ⸢ṭe₃⸣-em ša₂ {1}{d}AMAR.UTU—LUGAL—PAB | |
| 4' | [i-qab-bu-ni um-ma ni-ta-mar] ⸢ina⸣ pa-ni-ni a-na NINDA-HI.A | |
| 5' | [a-na {1}tam-mar-i-te i]-⸢te⸣-ru-ub u₃ ERIM-MEŠ | |
| 6' | [ša₂-nu-ti-ma al-ta-par um]-ma al-ka-ma it-ti-šu₂ | |
| 7' | [du-ub-ba ih-sa-nim-ma i]-da-as-su qi₂-ba-ni | |
| 8' | [ṭe₃-e-mu ki-i aš₂-mu-u₂] a-na LUGAL be-li₂-ia | |
| 9' | [al-ta-par um-ma {1}{d}GIŠ.NU₁₁—MU]—GI.NA | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [x x x x x x x x x] ⸢x x x⸣ | |
| 2' | [ki-i IGI LUGAL EN-ia₂ mah-ru LUGAL] ⸢be⸣-li₂-a | |
| 3' | [liq-bi-ma E₂ ina NINA{ki} lu]-u₂-kal-li-mu-šu₂-nu-ti-ma | |
| 4' | [ina ŠA₃-bi lu-ši-bu u] UN-MEŠ E₂-ia | |
| 5' | [ri-hi-it {lu₂}KUR₂ ša₂ ina EN.LIL₂]{⸢ki⸣} u₂-še-ši-bu | |
| 6' | [lu-uš-pur-am-ma it-ti-šu₂-nu] ⸢lu⸣-ši-bu | |
| 7' | [ga-lu-u₂ liq-qi₂-ta-a ina] ⸢KUR⸣—AN.ŠAR₂{ki} | |
| 8' | [da-mi-ia a-na ŠA₃-bi da-mi ša₂] ⸢KUR⸣—URI{ki} | |
| 9' | [x {lu₂}kal-da-ni la KUR—AN.ŠAR₂{ki} x x] ⸢ki-i⸣ | |
Sources & licences
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