CT 54, 364 (P239428)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
Open in the reader & map →See it among all tablets
| Designation | CT 54, 364 |
|---|---|
| ID | P239428 |
| 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 [1:5] 2'2'–5'5' | [...] The bread of the te[mple is excellent], the best-quality beer of the temple [is good]. The guard of the school [is well. The king, my lord], ca[n be] very [happy]. |
| Obverse [5:8] 6'6'–8'8' | [...] before the go[ds for the good health] of the ki[ng, my lord]. |
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 x x x] | |
| 2' | [x x x]-ra NINDA-HI.A E₂—[DINGIR-MEŠ] E₂—[DINGIR-MEŠ] | |
| 3' | [ba-ni] KAŠ.SAG E₂—DINGIR-MEŠ E₂—DINGIR-MEŠ [ṭa-a-bi] | |
| 4' | [x x x] ⸢EN⸣.NUN E₂—ṭup-pu E₂—ṭup-pu [x x x x] | |
| 5' | [x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ ma-aʾ-diš ⸢lu⸣-[u₂ x x x] | |
| 6' | [x x x x x x] pa-an ⸢DINGIR⸣-[MEŠ x x x] | |
| 7' | [a-na ba-laṭ nap-ša₂-a]-ti ša₂ ⸢LUGAL⸣ [x x x x] | |
| 8' | [x x x x x x]-⸢na⸣ E₂ [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)
Cite the original edition and translator. Page generated by Unread Atlas from the public corpus export of 2026-10-11.