CT 53, 001 (P313416)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 001 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313416 |
| 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/saa01 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:3] o 1o 1–o 33 | To the king, my lord: your servant Sin-a[šared]. Good health to the king, my lord! |
| Obverse [3:19] o 44– | 1 big golden box, 1 golden plate, 3 crests of white silver, 1 box of gold scraps, 2 golden goblets, 4 firewood containers (with) golden (weighing) stones, 1 ... overlaid with gold, 1 bronze washing bowl, silver tableware, 1 box containing 153 silver bowls, 1 box (with) 25 bowls of ... silver and 26 silver ...; |
| Reverse [0:1] r 1r 1–r 1r 1 | 1 lion's head (rhyton) of silver, [...... |
| Reverse [1:5] r 22–r 55 | (r 2) (Break) |
| Reverse [5:6] r 66–r 66 | 1 golden [......], 1 [......], [...] golden [...... |
| Reverse [6:11] r 77–r 1111 | (r 7) (Break) |
| Reverse [11:13] r 1212–r 1313 | ... I have just] sent [to] 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 | ⸢a⸣-na LUGAL be-li₂-⸢ia⸣ | |
| 2 | ARAD-ka {1}{⸢d⸣}30—⸢SAG⸣.[KAL] | |
| 3 | lu-u šul\m-mu a-na\y LUGAL be-li₂-ia₂ | |
| 4 | 01 {giš}tup\m-ni\d-nu KALAG KUG.GI | |
| 5 | 01 ZU KUG.GI 03 ⸢ṣip⸣-rat KUG.UD x ⸢x⸣ | |
| 6 | 01 {giš}tup-ni\d-nu hu-ši-e KUG.⸢GI⸣ | |
| 7 | 02 GU₂⸣.ZI KUG.GI | |
| 8 | 04 {giš}E₂—gi-ṣi-te {giš}E₂—gi-ṣi-te | |
| 9 | NA₄-MEŠ\m KUG.GI | |
| 10 | 01 hu-⸢up-pu⸣ KUG.GI uh-hu-zu | |
| 11 | 01 nar-ma-ak\d-tu₂ URUDU | |
| 12 | u₂-de-e KUG.UD ⸢x x⸣ | |
| 13 | 01 {giš}tup\m-ni\d-nu | |
| 14 | 01 me 53 kap-pi KUG.UD ina ŠA₃-bi | |
| b.e. | ||
| 15 | 01 tup\m-ni-nu | |
| 16 | 25 kap-pi KUG.UD x KUG | |
| 17 | 26 HAL KUG.UD | |
| r | ||
| 1 | 01 ⸢SAG⸣.DU UR.MAH KUG.UD | |
| 2 | [x x x] ⸢x⸣ [x x x x] | |
| 3 | [x x x x x x x x] | |
| 4 | 01 ⸢ap-qu⸣ [x x x x]+⸢x⸣ | |
| 5 | [x x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ | |
| 6 | 01 [x x x x x x] KUG.GI | |
| 7 | 01 [x x x x x x x] | |
| 8 | [x x x x x x x x] KUG.GI | |
| 11 | [x x x x x x]+⸢x x⸣ | |
| 12 | [x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ | |
| 13 | [a-na] ⸢LUGAL be-li₂-ia₂⸣ | |
| 14 | [u₂]-se-bi-la | |
Sources & licences
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