CT 54, 308 (P239352)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 54, 308 |
|---|---|
| ID | P239352 |
| 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 [0:7] o 1o 1–o 77 | [Your servant Bel-iqiša]: I would gladly die for [the king of the universe], m[y lord! May] Nabû and Marduk bless [the king of the universe], my [lo]rd! In the morning and in the evening I pray to [Bel and] Nabû for the good [health of the k]ing, my lord. |
| Obverse [7:11] o 88–o 1111 | [As soon as I] heard that ... |
| Reverse [4:6] r 5'5'–r 6'6' | [Perhaps the king, my lord], will say: "I did not agree [...]." |
| Reverse [6:7] r 7'7'–r 7'7' | [...] an inauspicious time |
| Reverse [7:8] r 8'8'–r 8'8' | [...] Let me send/write [to the king], my [lord] |
| Reverse [8:9] r 9'9'–r 9'9' | [...] and Bel-iqiša |
| Reverse [9:11] r 10'10'– | [...]: the king will kill me. |
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 | [ARAD-ka {1}{d}EN—BA-ša₂] a-na di-na-an | |
| 2 | [LUGAL ŠU₂ be-li₂]-⸢ia⸣ lul-lik {d}AG u {d}AMAR.UTU | |
| 3 | [a-na LUGAL ŠU₂ be]-li₂-ia lik-ru-bu | |
| 4 | [i-na ŠA₃-bi] ⸢ša₂⸣ še-e-ru | |
| 5 | [u₃ ka]-⸢ṣu⸣ UD-mu a-na ba-laṭ | |
| 6 | [ZI-MEŠ ša₂] ⸢LUGAL⸣ be-li₂-ia | |
| 7 | [d.EN u₃] {d}AG u₂-ṣal-li | |
| 8 | [a-ki-i aš₂]-mu-u₂ um-ma šar-⸢x⸣ | |
| 9 | [x x x]-ma ⸢x⸣+[x x]-⸢us⸣-su | |
| 10 | [x x x x]+⸢x⸣ a [x x x]-ru | |
| 11 | [x x x x]+⸢x⸣+[x x x] ⸢x x⸣ | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [x x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ | |
| 2' | [x x x x x x x x] ⸢x x⸣ | |
| 3' | [x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ šu₂-u₂ | |
| 4' | [x x x x x x] ⸢x x⸣ ru | |
| 5' | [x x x x x x] i-qab-bi um-ma | |
| 6' | [x x x x x]+⸢x x x⸣ la am-gur | |
| 7' | [x x x x x] si-man la šal-mu | |
| 8' | [x LUGAL be-li₂]-ia₂ lu-uš-pu-ru | |
| 9' | [x x x x x]-ma {1}{d}EN—BA-ša₂ | |
| 10' | [x x x x x]-ma-a LUGAL i-dak-an-ni | |
| r.e. | ||
| 11 | [x x x x x]-⸢x⸣-ma-a | |
Sources & licences
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