CT 53, 006 (P313421)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 006 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313421 |
| 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 [0:3] o 1o 1–o 33 | To [the king, my lord]: your servant Šarru-emur[anni]. Good health to the king, my lord! |
| Obverse [3:14] o 44– | Concerning the people of Šamaš-ila'i the servant of Aššur-belu-taqqin about whom the king, my lord, wrote to me [through] Abi-Se', I have inquired and investigated, and it is said that Adad-remanni has made [them ......] |
| Reverse [0:1] r 1r 1–r 1r 1 | they have entered [...]. |
| Reverse [1:2] r 22–r 22 | There [... w]ine |
| Reverse [3:4] r 44–r 44 | [......] him. |
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\p-ka {1}⸢LUGAL⸣—e-mur-[an-ni] | |
| 3 | lu-u DI-mu a-na LUGAL EN-ia₂ | |
| 4 | ina UGU UN-MEŠ\m ⸢ša\t⸣ {1}{d}UTU—DINGIR-a.a | |
| 5 | {lu₂vy}ARAD\p ša\t {1}aš-šur—EN—LAL-in | |
| 6 | ša\ty LUGAL EN [ina ŠU.2 {1}a-bi—si | |
| 7 | iš-pur-an-⸢ni⸣ | |
| 8 | a-⸢sa-ʾa-al⸣ | |
| 9 | ⸢u₂\m-ta⸣-ṣi-ṣi | |
| 10 | ⸢ma-a {1}{d⸣}IM—⸢rem₂-ni⸣ | |
| 11 | ⸢u₂-se⸣-[x x x x] | |
| b.e. | ||
| 12 | [x x x x x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1 | ⸢e-tar⸣-bu | |
| 2 | ina ŠA₃ ⸢x⸣+[x x x] ⸢GEŠTIN⸣ | |
| 3 | [x x x x x]-⸢hu⸣ | |
| 4 | [x x x x x x]-⸢ṣu⸣-šu₂ | |
Sources & licences
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- 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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