CT 54, 216 (P238844)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 54, 216 |
|---|---|
| ID | P238844 |
| 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 [2:3] o 3'3'–o 3'3' | "When [... went] before Lanšê [...] |
| Obverse [3:4] o 4'4'–o 4'4' | [...] "he will do my [...] and to [...] |
| Obverse [4:5] o 5'5'–o 5'5' | [...] before [...] the middle night watch [...] |
| Obverse [5:6] o 6'6'–o 6'6' | [...] repeate[d ...] |
| Obverse [6:7] o 7'7'–o 7'7' | [...] to [...] spoke [...], |
| Obverse [7:8] o 8'8'–o 8'8' | [...] before [... i]n the king's palace [...] |
| Obverse [8:9] o 9'9'–o 9'9' | [...] my foundation [...] |
| Obverse [9:10] o 10'10'–o 10'10' | [...] "for [N]N [...] |
| Obverse [10:11] o 11'11'–o 11'11' | [...] "I am a servant of the king [...] |
| Obverse [11:13] o 12'12'–o 13'13' | [...] accordingly [...] |
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 x x x] | |
| 2' | [x]+⸢x⸣ šu-u₂ ⸢SAG x x⸣ um-ma ku [x x x x] | |
| 3' | [x]-šu₂ a-na pa-an {1}la-an-še-e ki-⸢i⸣ [x x x x] | |
| 4' | [x] ⸢um⸣-ma a ⸢x⸣+[x x]+⸢x⸣ a ip-pu-uš-ma a-⸢na⸣ [x x x x] | |
| 5' | [x] ⸢pa⸣-an ⸢ša₂⸣ [x x x]+⸢x ta⸣ qab-li-⸢ta⸣ [x x x x] | |
| 6' | [x] il-[x x x x x x]-ni ul-te-⸢en⸣-[ni x x x] | |
| 7' | [x] a-⸢na⸣ [x x x x x x] ⸢id⸣-bu-bu [x x x x] | |
| 8' | [x]-⸢na⸣ pa-an {⸢lu₂⸣}[x x x]-⸢na⸣ E₂ ⸢LUGAL⸣ [x x x x] | |
| 9' | [x] ⸢SUHUŠ⸣-ia a-⸢na⸣ [x x x]-id-di ⸢ul⸣-[x x x x] | |
| 10' | [x x] ⸢um⸣-ma a-na {1}{d}[x x] ⸢x x x⸣ na [x x x x] | |
| 11' | [x x x] ⸢um⸣-ma ARAD ša₂ LUGAL a-na-ku-⸢ma⸣ [x x x x] | |
| 12' | [x x x] ki-i pi-i an-ni-⸢i⸣ [x x x x x] | |
| 13' | [x x x x x x]-⸢ti mi⸣ [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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