CT 54, 211 (P238701)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 54, 211 |
|---|---|
| ID | P238701 |
| 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 |
|---|---|
| Reverse [0:3] r 1r 1–r 33 | "Why do you let the [son of] Ya[kin] go to [GN] and sl[eep] (there)?" |
| Reverse [3:5] r 44–r 55 | [I swear] to the king, my lord: "[...] |
| Reverse [5:6] r 66–r 66 | much [...] |
| Reverse [6:7] r 77–r 77 | heard [...] |
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) |
|---|---|---|
| r | ||
| 1 | mi-nu-u₂ DUMU—{1}ia-[ki-ni] | |
| 2 | tu-maš-šir₃-ma a-⸢na⸣ [x x x] | |
| 3 | il-la-ka u i-⸢ṣal⸣-[la-al] | |
| 4 | a-na LUGAL be-li₂-⸢ia₂⸣ [a-tam-ma] | |
| 5 | um-ma it-[x x x x] | |
| 6 | ma-aʾ-⸢da⸣ [x x x x] | |
| 7 | ⸢iš-mu⸣-u₂ [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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