CT 54, 209 (P238689)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 54, 209 |
|---|---|
| ID | P238689 |
| 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 [0:1] o 1'1'–o 1'1' | [...... your] people |
| Obverse [1:2] o 2'2'–o 2'2' | [......] swords ... |
| Obverse [2:3] o 3'3'–o 3'3' | [......] ... his curse |
| Obverse [3:4] o 4'4'–o 4'4' | [......] I detained him |
| Obverse [4:6] o 5'5'– | [......] ... returned them |
| Bottom [0:1] b.e. 6'b.e. 6'–b.e. 6'b.e. 6' | [......] your [...] |
| Bottom [1:2] b.e. 7'7'–b.e. 7'7' | [......] your [...]s |
| Bottom [2:4] b.e. 8'8'– | [......] I asked |
| Reverse [0:1] r 1r 1–r 1r 1 | [... ...ed] him, saying: |
| Reverse [1:5] r 22–r 55 | [“......] dwelt in] that country |
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] ⸢UN-MEŠ⸣-[ku-nu] | |
| 2' | [x x x x x] ⸢GIR₂-MEŠ x x x⸣ | |
| 3' | [x x x x x] ⸢x a-na ar-rat-su⸣ | |
| 4' | [x x x x x] ⸢x x ak⸣-liš | |
| 5' | [x x x x x]-⸢nu-tu ME TE⸣ GI₄-MEŠ-šu₂-nu | |
| b.e. | ||
| 6' | [x x x x x x]-ku-nu | |
| 7' | [x x x x x x]-MEŠ-ku-nu | |
| 8' | [x x x x x x] aš₂-a-lu | |
| r | ||
| 1 | [x x x x x]-niš-šu₂ um-ma | |
| 2 | [x x x x x ina] KUR ši-i it-ta-šab | |
| 3 | [x x x x x x] ku ta ⸢x x⸣ | |
| 4 | [x x x x x x] nu SAG ta ⸢x x⸣ | |
| 5 | [x x x x x x] ⸢šar 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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