CT 53, 008 (P313423)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 008 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313423 |
| 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/saa10 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:4] 11–44 | The 'farmer' should perform the apotropaic ritual against evil of any kind; the 'farmer' should (also) perform the penitential psalms for Nergal and the 'hand-lifting' prayer for Nergal. Let them write in the apotropaic ritual and the prayer as follows: |
| Obverse [4:12] 55– | "In the evil of the planet Mars which exceeded its term and ap[peared] in the constellation Aries: may its evil not [approach], not come near, not press up[on (me)], not affect me, my country, the people of [my pal]ace and my army!" |
| Reverse [4:5] r 55–r 55 | Let them write like this in the apotropaic ritual and the 'hand-lifting' prayer. |
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) |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | NAM.BUR₂.BI HUL DU₃.A.BI {lu₂}ENGAR le-pu-uš | |
| 2 | ER₂.ŠA₃.HUN.GA₂-MEŠ ša₂ {d}U.GUR u₃ šu-il₂-la-ka-nu | |
| 3 | ša₂ {d}U.GUR {lu₂}ENGAR le-pu-uš ina ŠA₃ NAM.BUR₂.BI | |
| 4 | u šu-il₂-la-ka-nu liš-ša₂-⸢ṭir⸣ | |
| 5 | um-ma ina HUL {mul}ṣal-bat-a-⸢nu⸣ | |
| 6 | ša a-dan-šu₂ u₂-še-ti-[qu-u-ni] | |
| 7 | u₃ ina ŠA₃ {mul}{lu₂}HUN.GA₂ ⸢in⸣-[na-mir-u-ni] | |
| r | ||
| 1 | HUL-⸢šu⸣ ia-a-ši KUR-ia ⸢UN⸣-MEŠ E₂.[GAL-ia] | |
| 2 | u₃ e-mu-qi₂-ia ⸢la⸣ [i-ṭe-eh-ha-a] | |
| 3 | NU i-qar-ri-ba la i-sa-an-[ni-qa] | |
| 4 | la i-kaš-ša₂-dan-⸢ni⸣ | |
| 5 | ki-i an-ni-i ina NAM.BUR₂.BI | |
| 6 | u₃ šu-il₂-la-ka-nu liš-ša₂-ṭir | |
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