CT 53, 019 (P313434)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 019 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313434 |
| 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 | [T]o the king, my lord: your [servant] Nabû-belu-ka''in. Good health to the king, [my] lord! |
| Obverse [3:17] o 44–o 1717 | The messenger of Il-yada' told me this news: "An expedition of 3,000 men has come up to me." All the men and horses are in the mountain; I am 'clean.' (If) I go all the way to them to Zabban, as far as Daduni, attend to them, put up guards, and return from there going to the piedmont, surely these men [......] |
| Reverse [3:9] r 44–r 99 | [Perh]aps [the king], my [lor]d, [will say]: "[Are] all the m[en (and horses) ......] until [......]?" |
| Reverse [9:11] r 1010–r 1111 | [... x h]orses (and) some [...] m[en ...] in [...]. |
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-⸢ia₂⸣ | |
| 2 | [ARAD]-ka {1}{d}PA—EN—GIN | |
| 3 | lu-u DI-mu a-na\t LUGAL EN-[ia₂] | |
| 4 | {lu₂vy}A—KIN {lu₂vy}A—KIN ša\y {1}DINGIR—ia-da-aʾ | |
| 5 | ṭe₃-e-mu šu-u₂\m | |
| 6 | iq-ṭi\d-bi-ia ma-a har-ra-nu | |
| 7 | ša 03 lim {lu₂v}ERIM-MEŠ\m te-te-li\d-ia | |
| 8 | {lu₂v}ERIM-MEŠ {anše}KUR.RA\p-MEŠ gab-bu | |
| 9 | ina KUR-i šu₂-nu a-na-ku zak-ku-u₂\m | |
| 10 | a-du UGU-šu₂-nu a-na {uru}zab-ban | |
| 11 | a-du {kur}da-du-ni al-lak | |
| 12 | u₂\m-ta-ak\t-šu₂-nu EN.NUN\m-MEŠ | |
| 13 | u₂\m-še-il-la TA@v am-ma-ka | |
| 14 | a-sa-hu-ra ina GIR₃ KUR-i | |
| 15 | al-la-ka pi-iq-ta-te | |
| 16 | {lu₂v}ERIM-MEŠ an-nu-te | |
| 17 | <$x x x x$> | |
| r | ||
| 1 | [ina] UGU ša [x x x x] | |
| 2 | [x x x x] x [x x x x] | |
| 3 | [x x x]-me il-[x x x] | |
| 4 | [x x x] x [x i—su]-ri | |
| 5 | [LUGAL be]-li₂ [i-qab-bi] | |
| 6 | ma-a {⸢lu₂v⸣}[ERIM-MEŠ] | |
| 7 | gab-bu [x x x x x] | |
| 8 | ⸢ša⸣ [x x x x] ⸢a⸣-du | |
| 9 | [x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ | |
| 10 | [x x]+⸢x⸣ [x x x] {⸢anše⸣}KUR-MEŠ | |
| 11 | {lu₂v}[ERIM-MEŠ x] ⸢i⸣-ba-ši | |
| 12 | ina ⸢x⸣+[x x x]-u | |
Sources & licences
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