CT 54, 419 (P240408)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 54, 419 |
|---|---|
| ID | P240408 |
| 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/saa18 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Reverse [1:2] r 2'2'–r 2'2' | [......] he say[s to him] |
| Reverse [2:3] r 3'3'–r 3'3' | [...... Ba]bylon and |
| Reverse [3:4] r 4'4'–r 4'4' | [......] the commandant [...] |
| Reverse [4:5] r 5'5'–r 5'5' | [......] Bel and Nab[û ...] |
| Reverse [5:6] r 6'6'–r 6'6' | [... ...]-ukin [...] the work |
| Reverse [6:7] r 7'7'–r 7'7' | [... the B]abylonians [...] |
| Reverse [7:8] r 8'8'–r 8'8' | [......] and him (and) his skull |
| Reverse [8:9] r 9'9'–r 9'9' | [...] tore down his [...] an[d ...] |
| Reverse [9:11] r 10'10'–r 11'11' | [......] my [lo]rd to [...] |
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) |
|---|---|---|
| r | ||
| 1' | [x x x x x x x x x x] ⸢x x⸣ [x x] | |
| 2' | [x x x x x x x x x x] i-qab-⸢ba⸣-[aš₂-šu₂] | |
| 3' | [x x x x x x x x x] ⸢TIN⸣.TIR{ki} ⸢u₃⸣ | |
| 4' | [x x x x x x x x x] {lu₂}GAR—UMUŠ {lu₂}GAR—UMUŠ a-⸢na⸣ [x x] | |
| 5' | [x x x x x x x x x] {d}EN u {d}⸢AG⸣ [x x] | |
| 6' | [x x x x x] ⸢x x—GI⸣.NA dul-lu ⸢x⸣+[x x x] | |
| 7' | [x x x x] {⸢lu₂⸣}TIN.TIR{ki}MEŠ ina hu-⸢x⸣+[x x x] | |
| 8' | [x x x x]-⸢ru⸣-ma u ša₂-a-šu₂ UGU-ha-šu₂ [x x] | |
| 9' | [x x x x]-⸢x x-su⸣ ip-pu-lu-⸢ma⸣ [x x] | |
| 10' | [x x x x x x x be]-⸢li₂⸣-ia₂ a-na ⸢x⸣+[x x x] | |
| 11' | [x x x x x x x x 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)
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