CT 54, 248 (P239180)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 54, 248 |
|---|---|
| ID | P239180 |
| 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 [1:2] 2'2'–2'2' | [...] all ... [...] |
| Obverse [2:3] 3'3'–3'3' | [...] the towns of the fortress of [Yakin] |
| Obverse [3:4] 4'4'–4'4' | [...] concerning all not [...] |
| Obverse [4:6] 5'5'–6'6' | [Perhaps the king], my lord, will say: "[...] 1,000 of yo[ur] men [...]" |
| Obverse [6:7] 7'7'–7'7' | [...] man[y ...] |
| Obverse [7:8] 8'8'–8'8' | [...] of the king, my lord, [...] |
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) |
|---|---|---|
| 1' | [x x] ⸢x⸣ a ⸢x⸣ ar [x x x x x] | |
| 2' | [x]-ri-nu gab-bi [x x x x x] | |
| 3' | [x x] URU-MEŠ ša₂ BAD₃ ⸢ša₂⸣ [x x x x] | |
| 4' | [x x ina] UGU gab-bi ul [x x x x] | |
| 5' | [x x] ⸢be⸣-li₂-a i-qab-bi [x x x x] | |
| 6' | [x x x]-lim ERIM-MEŠ-⸢ka⸣ [x x x] | |
| 7' | [x x x x x] ma-aʾ-da-[ti x x x] | |
| 8' | [x x x x x] ⸢LUGAL⸣ be-li₂-⸢ia⸣ [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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