CT 54, 342 (P239403)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 54, 342 |
|---|---|
| ID | P239403 |
| 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' | Now then they are in [...] |
| Obverse [2:3] 3'3'–3'3' | The ne[ws ...] |
| Obverse [3:4] 4'4'–4'4' | of Bit-Ya[kin ...] |
| Obverse [4:5] 5'5'–5'5' | I have as[ked ...] |
| Obverse [5:6] 6'6'–6'6' | They have fini[shed ...] |
| Obverse [6:7] 7'7'–7'7' | saying, "[...] |
| Reverse [0:1] r 1r 1–r 1r 1 | have [...] |
| Reverse [1:2] r 22–r 22 | after u[s ...] |
| Reverse [2:3] r 33–r 33 | in the shadow [...] |
| Reverse [3:4] r 44–r 44 | of the king, (my) lo[rd, ...] |
| Reverse [4:6] r 55–r 66 | 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) |
|---|---|---|
| 1' | [x]+⸢x x⸣+[x x x x] | |
| 2' | a-du-u₂ ina [x x x] | |
| 3' | šu-nu ṭe₃-[e-mu] | |
| 4' | ša₂ E₂—{1}ia-[GIN] | |
| 5' | al-ta-aʾ-[al x x] | |
| 6' | iq-ta-⸢tu⸣-[u₂ x x] | |
| 7' | um-ma [x x x x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1 | i-šu-u₂ [x x x x] | |
| 2 | ar₂-ki-⸢ni⸣ [x x x] | |
| 3 | ina GIŠ.MI [x x x x] | |
| 4 | ša₂ LUGAL ⸢EN⸣-[ia x x x] | |
| 5 | u₃ ⸢x⸣+[x x x x] | |
| 6 | [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)
- electronic Babylonian Library (eBL), LMU Munich · MIT (eBL Zenodo dataset); platform terms unverified · electronic Babylonian Library (eBL), LMU Munich, https://www.ebl.lmu.de/ ; Zenodo dataset (MIT)
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