CT 54, 375 (P239449)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 54, 375 |
|---|---|
| ID | P239449 |
| 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 [0:4] 11–44 | [Your servant NN: I would gladly die for the king, m]y [lord! S]ay to the ki[ng, my lord]: |
| Obverse [4:6] 55–66 | [x] men with 3 ho[rses] have [...]ed [...]. |
| Obverse [6:8] 77–88 | [Th]ey are [...] m[en of] Merodach-Bal[adan ...]. |
| Obverse [8:10] 99–1010 | On the 24[th] day [...] |
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 | [ARAD-ka {1}x x x x] | |
| 2 | [a-na di-na-an LUGAL] | |
| 3 | [be-li₂]-⸢ia lul⸣-[lik] | |
| 4 | [um]-⸢ma⸣-a a-na ⸢LUGAL⸣ [be-li₂-ia-a-ma] | |
| 5 | [x] ⸢ERIM⸣-MEŠ 03 {⸢anše⸣}[KUR.RA-MEŠ] | |
| 6 | [it]-ti-šu₂-nu ⸢x⸣+[x x x] | |
| 7 | [x]-ʾu-u₂ {lu₂}[x x-MEŠ] | |
| 8 | [ša₂ {1}{d}AMAR.UTU—DUMU.⸢UŠ⸣—[SUM-na] | |
| 9 | [šu₂]-nu UD 24-[KAM₂ x x x] | |
| 10 | [x x]+⸢x⸣-an-ni ša₂ ⸢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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