CT 54, 303 (P239347)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 54, 303 |
|---|---|
| ID | P239347 |
| 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' | [...] let [him/them ...] |
| Obverse [1:2] o 2'2'–o 2'2' | [...] here [...] |
| Obverse [2:3] o 3'3'–o 3'3' | [...] went up [to ...]. |
| Obverse [3:4] o 4'4'–o 4'4' | [N]ow [...] to Babylon. |
| Obverse [4:8] o 5'5'–o 8'8' | [From thi]s the king may find out w[hether Bel ... will com]e to Babylon [i]n Nisan (I) and whether he will tell him (= the king): "Go to Babylon [...]!" He has (already) entered [...]. |
| Obverse [8:10] o 9'9'–o 10'10' | As to the orac[le query, ...] and their brother will enter and [...] |
| Obverse [10:11] o 11'11'–o 11'11' | [...] the rest of the words [...] |
| Obverse [11:12] o 12'12'–o 12'12' | [...] the king [...] |
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⸣{ki} liš-⸢x x⸣ [x x] | |
| 2' | [x x x x] ⸢a⸣-kan-na iš-⸢x⸣+[x x] | |
| 3' | [x x x x]+⸢x⸣{ki} i-lu-⸢u₂⸣ [x x] | |
| 4' | [x x x] ⸢en⸣-na a-na TIN.TIR{[ki} x x] | |
| 5' | [ina ŠA₃ an-ni]-i LUGAL lu-mas-si ⸢ki⸣-[i] | |
| 6' | [x x x x] ⸢ina⸣ {iti}BARAG a-na TIN.TIR{⸢ki⸣} | |
| 7' | [x x il-la]-⸢kam₂⸣-ma i-qab-ba-aš₂-šu₂ ⸢um⸣-[ma] | |
| 8' | [x x x x] a-na TIN.TIR{ki} a-lik a-⸢na⸣ | |
| 9' | [x x]{⸢ki⸣} i-ter-ba aš₂-šu₂ ta-⸢mi⸣-[tu₂] | |
| 10' | [x x x]-ni u ŠEŠ-šu₂-nu ir-ru-ub-ma [x] | |
| 11' | [x x x]+⸢x⸣ si-it-ti dib-bi ⸢x⸣+[x x] | |
| 12' | [x] ⸢x x x-ia LUGAL 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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