CT 54, 310 (P239355)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 54, 310 |
|---|---|
| ID | P239355 |
| 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 [0:3] o 1o 1–o 33 | [Your servant Marduk: I would gladly] die [for the king, my lord! May] Nabû and [Marduk bless the king, my lord]! Say [to the king, my lord]: |
| Obverse [3:4] o 44–o 44 | [Concerning] what the king wrote: "[...] |
| Obverse [4:5] o 55–o 55 | [...] to Bit-D[akuru ...] |
| Obverse [5:6] o 66–o 66 | [...] like the town [...] |
| Obverse [6:7] o 77–o 77 | [...] he will kill and [...] |
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}mar-duk] a-na di-[na-an LUGAL be-li₂-ia] | |
| 2 | [lul]-lik {d}AG u {d}[AMAR.UTU a-na LUGAL be-li₂-ia] | |
| 3 | [lik]-ru-bu um-ma-a [a-na LUGAL be-li₂-ia-a-ma] | |
| 4 | [a-na UGU] ša₂ LUGAL iš-pur [x x x x x x x x] | |
| 5 | [x x x] a-na E₂—{1}⸢da⸣-[ku-ru x x x x x x] | |
| 6 | [x x x]+⸢x⸣ ki-i {uru}⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x x x x] | |
| 7 | [x x x i]-dak-⸢kam₂-ma⸣ [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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