CT 53, 020 (P313435)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 020 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313435 |
| 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 [0:5] o 1o 1–o 55 | To the king, my lord: your servant Nabû-pašir. Good health to the king, my lord! May Sin and Nikkal bless the king, my lord! |
| Obverse [5:12] o 66–o 1212 | [As to] what the king, my lord, [wrote to m]e: "Give 200 homers of oil [i]n Til-Barsip to Kiṣir-Aššur, governor of Dur- Šarruken," — [I set asi]de 200 homers of oil and delivered it. |
| Obverse [12:19] o 1313– | I have now written the oil consumption and the oil remaining on a writing-board and am herewith sending it 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 EN-ia | |
| 2 | ARAD-ka {1}{d}AG\d—pa-šir | |
| 3 | lu DI-mu a-na LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 4 | {d}30 u {d}NIN.GAL | |
| 5 | [a-na] LUGAL EN-ia lik-ru-bu | |
| 6 | [ina UGU]-⸢hi⸣ ša LUGAL EN | |
| 7 | [iš-pur-an]-⸢ni⸣ ma-a 02 me ANŠE I₃-MEŠ | |
| 8 | [ina] ⸢ŠA₃⸣ {uru}DU₆—bur-si-⸢ba⸣ | |
| 9 | a-na {1}ki-ṣir—aš-šur | |
| 10 | {lu₂}EN.NAM ša {uru}BAD₃\p—{1}MAN—⸢GIN⸣ | |
| 11 | [di]-⸢e⸣-ni 02 me ANŠE I₃-MEŠ | |
| 12 | [u₂-ta]-⸢li⸣ a-ti-din | |
| 13 | [u₂-ma-a an]-nu-rig | |
| r | ||
| 1 | ⸢a⸣-kil-tu₂ ša I₃-MEŠ | |
| 2 | u₃ I₃-MEŠ\p am—mar | |
| 3 | re-hu-ni ina ŠA₃-bi | |
| 4 | {giš}LI.U₅.UM\y a-sa-ṭar | |
| 5 | ina UGU-hi LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 6 | u₂-se-bi-⸢la⸣ | |
Sources & licences
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