CT 54, 252 (P239186)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 54, 252 |
|---|---|
| ID | P239186 |
| 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 [4:5] r 5'5'–r 5'5' | [...] letter [...] |
| Reverse [5:6] r 6'6'–r 6'6' | [...] Esarhaddon |
| Reverse [6:7] r 7'7'–r 7'7' | [...] many soldiers |
| Reverse [7:8] r 8'8'–r 8'8' | [...] love [...] |
| Reverse [8:9] r 9'9'–r 9'9' | [...] his fault [...] |
| Reverse [9:10] r 10'10'–r 10'10' | [... has] hated [...] |
| Reverse [10:13] r 11'11'–r 13'13' | [...] I sent [...] |
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] | |
| 2' | [x x x]-ma 02 [x x x] | |
| 3' | [x x] ⸢li x⸣+[x x x] | |
| 4' | [x x]-⸢bu⸣-ma ⸢x x⸣ [x x x] | |
| 5' | [x x x]+⸢x⸣ ši-pir-ti [x x x] | |
| 6' | [x x {1}{d]}aš-šur—ŠEŠ—SUM-[na] | |
| 7' | [x x x]+⸢x⸣ ERIM-MEŠ ma-aʾ-[du-ti] | |
| 8' | [x x x] ⸢ra⸣-a-mu ⸢id⸣-[x x] | |
| 9' | [x x x] hi-ṭu-šu₂ i-[x x x] | |
| 10' | [x x i]-zi-ir [x x x] | |
| 11' | [x x] ⸢al⸣-tap-ra [x x x] | |
| 12' | [x x x x]-ik [x x x] | |
| 13' | [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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