CT 54, 222 (P238937)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 54, 222 |
|---|---|
| ID | P238937 |
| 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 |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:1] o 1'1'–o 1'1' | [...] king who [...] |
| Obverse [1:2] o 2'2'–o 2'2' | [...] Bel-[...] |
| Obverse [2:3] o 3'3'–o 3'3' | "We keep talk[ing ...] |
| Obverse [3:4] o 4'4'–o 4'4' | Esarhaddon [...] |
| Obverse [4:5] o 5'5'–o 5'5' | and the cover that [...] |
| Obverse [5:6] o 6'6'–o 6'6' | I se[e ...] of the king, my lord |
| Obverse [6:10] o 7'7'–o 10'10' | [...] instead of [...] |
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] LUGAL ša₂ ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x x x x] | |
| 2' | [x x]+⸢x⸣{ki} {1}{d}EN—[x x x x x x x x] | |
| 3' | ⸢um-ma ni-da⸣-nab-[x x x x x x x x] | |
| 4' | {1}{d}aš-šur—ŠEŠ—SUM-⸢na⸣ [x x x x x x x] | |
| 5' | u₃ hi-il-lu ša₂ ki-[x x x x x x x] | |
| 6' | ša₂ LUGAL be-li₂-ia am-ma-[ru x x x x x x] | |
| 7' | [x x]+⸢x⸣-u₂ ki-ma ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x x] | |
| 8' | [x x x]+⸢x⸣-ti i-⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x x] | |
| 9' | [x x x] ba-na-[x x x x x x x] | |
| 10' | [x x x] ⸢x⸣ [x x 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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