CT 53, 005 (P313420)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 005 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313420 |
| 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/saa15 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:7] o 1o 1–o 77 | [To the k]ing, my lord: [yo]ur [servant] Il-yada[']. Go[od heal]th to the king, [my] lord! The lan[d] and the forts of the king my lord are well. The king, my lord, can be glad. |
| Obverse [7:11] o 88–o 1111 | A [...] of [x] mou[n]ted men from Dur-Kurigalzu was in [...]. I [...]ed them [with ......] of the town [...r]ani. |
| Obverse [11:12] o 1212–o 1212 | Of the 200 men of |
| Obverse [12:13] o 1313–o 1313 | [...] my [...] |
| Obverse [13:14] o 1414–o 1414 | anxiety before them |
| Reverse [2:3] r 3'3'–r 3'3' | went and [reported back]: |
| Reverse [3:8] r 4'4'–r 8'8' | "The people [...] have got scared and go[ne] to the other side of the river. Nobody is left on this side of the river." |
| Reverse [8:15] r 9'9'–r 15'15' | I heard it being reported of the king, my lord: "The king has been blocked and is going (away)," so I went with Aššur-belu-taqqin as far as the town Dar[...]. There I heard the king, my lord, is moving on, so I turned and went back to my guard. |
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\t⸣ be-li₂-ia₂ | |
| 2 | [ARAD]-⸢ka⸣ {1}DINGIR—ia-da-⸢aʾ⸣ | |
| 3 | ⸢lu⸣-[u DI]-⸢mu⸣ a-na LUGAL be-li₂-[ia₂] | |
| 4 | ⸢DI-mu⸣ a-na ma-a-⸢ti\t⸣ | |
| 5 | {uru}bi-ra-a-⸢te⸣ | |
| 6 | ⸢ša⸣ LUGAL\t be-li₂-⸢ia₂⸣ ŠA₃-bu\t | |
| 7 | [ša LUGAL\t] ⸢be⸣-li₂-ia₂ ⸢lu⸣ DUG₃.GA-šu₂ | |
| 8 | {kur}⸢x⸣+[x x x] ⸢ša⸣ [x] ERIM-MEŠ\m | |
| 9 | ⸢rak-ku-bu-ti\t⸣ ša\y BAD₃—{1}ku-ri-gal-⸢zi⸣ | |
| 10 | ⸢ina x x⸣ ana-ku ⸢TA x⸣-MEŠ\m | |
| 11 | ⸢du-nu ša⸣ {uru}⸢x⸣+[x]-⸢ra⸣-a-ni | |
| 12 | ⸢bu x x⸣-šu₂-nu ⸢ša 2-me ERIM⸣-MEŠ\m-ni | |
| 13 | ⸢ša x x x⸣+[x x x]+⸢x-x⸣-ia | |
| 14 | ⸢ni-kit-ti⸣ ina pa-⸢ni-šu₂-nu⸣ | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [x x x x x x x x x x] | |
| 2' | ⸢x x x x⸣ [x x x x x] | |
| 3' | i-tal-ku ⸢i-x x⸣+[x x] | |
| 4' | ma-a UN-MEŠ\m ⸢x x x⸣ [x] | |
| 5' | ig\d-du-⸢ru⸣ ina bat-⸢te⸣ [o] | |
| 6' | am-me-te ša\yd ID₂ ⸢it-tal⸣-[ku] | |
| 7' | ma-a mi-nim-mi-ni ina ⸢bat-ti⸣ | |
| 8' | an-ni-⸢te⸣ ša\yd ID₂ la ⸢re-e-he⸣ | |
| 9' | ṭe₃-e-mu ša\yd LUGAL\t be-li₂-⸢ia₂⸣ | |
| 10' | a-se-me ma-a LUGAL\t ka-ri-im | |
| 11' | il-⸢lak⸣ TA\m {1}aš-šur—⸢U⸣—LAL-in | |
| 12' | a-di ŠA₃-<$bi$> {uru}da\d-ar-⸢x⸣ | |
| 13' | at-tal-ka ina ŠA₃-bi a-se-me ⸢ma-a⸣ | |
| 14' | LUGAL\t be-li₂ uk\dp-ku-uš\d | |
| 15' | a-su\t-hur a-na ⸢EN.NUN\m-ia⸣ | |
| 16' | at-ta-lak [o] | |
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