CT 54, 218 (P238858)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 54, 218 |
|---|---|
| ID | P238858 |
| 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 |
|---|---|
| Reverse [0:1] r 1'1'–r 1'1' | [......]: ther[e will be ...] in the land. |
| Reverse [1:3] r 2'2'–r 3'3' | [If Venus in Ab (V) descends darkly to the horizon and sets]: there will be a fall of Elam. |
| Reverse [3:4] r 4'4'–r 4'4' | [.....] Ela[m ......]. |
| Reverse [4:5] r 5'5'–r 5'5' | [If the moon is red at its appearance] and its left horn is blu[nt, its right horn pointed: you will drive back the enemy land; Adad will devastate]. |
| Reverse [5:6] r 6'6'–r 6'6' | [In A]b [the moon will be seen together with the sun] on the 14th day. |
| Reverse [6:7] r 7'7'–r 7'7' | [......] Now [......] |
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' | [x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x x x] | |
| 2' | [x x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ ina KUR ⸢GAL₂⸣-[MEŠ 1 {mul}dil-bat ina {iti}NE ad-riš] | |
| 3' | [uš-tak-ti-it-ma ir-bi] ŠUB-tim {kur}NIM.MA{⸢ki⸣} [GAL₂-ši x x x x] | |
| 4' | [x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ {kur}NIM.[MA{ki} x x x x x] | |
| 5' | 1 30 ina IGI.LAL-šu₂ SA₅]-ma SI KAB-šu₂ ⸢ke⸣-[pat SI ZAG-šu₂ ed-de-et KUR—KUR₂] KUR—KUR₂] | |
| 6' | [ta-sa₃-kip {d}IM RA 1 ina] {⸢iti}NE UD⸣ 14-KAM₂ 30 KI 20 in-nam-mar] | |
| 7' | [x x x x x x] en-⸢na⸣ [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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