CT 54, 405 (P240308)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 54, 405 |
|---|---|
| ID | P240308 |
| 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] o 2'2'–o 2'2' | [... Aššur]-belu-taqqin |
| Obverse [2:3] o 3'3'–o 3'3' | [...] kept guard |
| Obverse [3:4] o 4'4'–o 4'4' | [...] the swordsman |
| Obverse [4:5] o 5'5'–o 5'5' | [...] to the šandabakku |
| Obverse [5:6] o 6'6'–o 6'6' | [...] entered and |
| Obverse [6:7] o 7'7'–o 7'7' | [...] with him |
| Obverse [7:8] o 8'8'–o 8'8' | [...] to Merodach-Baladan |
| Obverse [8:9] o 9'9'–o 9'9' | [...] with the ey[es ...] |
| Reverse [1:2] r 2'2'–r 2'2' | [... d]o and go! |
| Reverse [2:3] r 3'3'–r 3'3' | [...] tell him |
| Reverse [3:4] r 4'4'–r 4'4' | [...] that |
| Reverse [4:5] r 5'5'–r 5'5' | [...] saved me |
| Reverse [5:6] r 6'6'–r 6'6' | [...] lead up |
| Reverse [6:7] r 7'7'–r 7'7' | [... i]n Der |
| Reverse [7:9] r 8'8'–r 9'9' | [...] purse |
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' | [x x x]+⸢x x x x⸣ | |
| 2' | [x {1}aš-šur]—U—LAL-in | |
| 3' | [x x x]+⸢x⸣ EN.NUN iṣ-ṣu-ru | |
| 4' | [x x x]+⸢x⸣ {lu₂}GIR₂.LA₂ | |
| 5' | [x x x]+⸢x⸣ a-na {lu₂}GU₂.EN.NA | |
| 6' | [x x i]-ru-ba-am-ma | |
| 7' | [x x x]+⸢x⸣-di it-ti-šu₂ | |
| 8' | [x x x] ana {1}{d}AMAR.UTU—A—SUM-na | |
| 9' | [x x x x] it-ti IGI.2 [o] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [x x x]+⸢x⸣ ad ⸢x⸣ | |
| 2' | [x x e]-⸢pu⸣-uš u a-lik | |
| 3' | [x x x]+⸢x⸣-nu qi₂-bi-šu₂ | |
| 4' | [x x x] ⸢ul⸣-lu-u₂ | |
| 5' | [x x x]-šu₂ u₂-še-zi-ban-ni | |
| 6' | [x x]-⸢ṣu⸣ ul-li | |
| 7' | [x x i]-⸢na⸣ {uru}de-⸢ri⸣ | |
| 8' | [x x {kuš]}hi-in-du | |
| 9' | [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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