CT 54, 435 (P240285)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 54, 435 |
|---|---|
| ID | P240285 |
| 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 [0:6] o 1o 1–o 66 | Your servant, the šandabakku: I would gladly die for the king, my lord! May Enlil, Ninurta (and) Nusku b[les]s the king, my lord! [Say to] the king, my lord: |
| Obverse [6:7] o 77–o 77 | [...] king, [my] lord[, ...] |
| Reverse [1:4] r 2'2'–r 4'4' | May the king, my lord, send me [n]ew[s] of the king, 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) |
|---|---|---|
| o | ||
| 1 | ARAD-ka {lu₂}GU₂.EN.NA | |
| 2 | a-na di-na-an | |
| 3 | LUGAL be-li₂-ia₂ lul-lik | |
| 4 | d.EN.LIL₂ {d}MAŠ {d}PA.TUG₂ | |
| 5 | a-na LUGAL be-li₂-ia₂ ⸢lik⸣-[ru]-⸢bu⸣ | |
| 6 | [um-ma-a a-na] LUGAL ⸢be⸣-[li₂-ia]-⸢ma⸣ | |
| 7 | [x x x x] ⸢LUGAL⸣ be-[li₂ x] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [x x x x x] ⸢x⸣+[x] ⸢x⸣+[x] | |
| 2' | [x]+⸢x x⸣+[x ṭe₃]-e-[mu] | |
| 3' | ša₂ LUGAL be-li₂-ia | |
| 4' | LUGAL be-li₂-[a] | |
| 5' | liš-⸢pur⸣ | |
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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