CT 53, 022 (P313437)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 022 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313437 |
| 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 [0:3] o 1o 1–o 33 | To the king, my lord: your servant Ṭab-šar-Aššur. Good health to the king, my lord! |
| Obverse [3:8] o 44–o 88 | On the 17th I and Kiṣir-Aššur went to the Zab river and inspected the timber; the logs were many, [as many] as we could possibly desire. |
| Obverse [8:11] o 99–o 1111 | [...] towers [......]. The men [...] who w[ent] with us [...] the king's. |
| Obverse [11:16] o 1212– | Kiṣir-Aššur [...] the timber, (whereas) I went to Dur-Šarruken [...... |
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}DUG₃—IM—aš-šur | |
| 3 | lu DI\d-mu a-na LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 4 | UD 17-KAM a-na-ku u₃ {1}ki-ṣir—aš-šur | |
| 5 | ina UGU {id₂}za-ba ni-⸢ta-lak⸣ | |
| 6 | {giš}UR₃\m-MEŠ ne₂-ta-⸢mar⸣ | |
| 7 | [ma]-aʾ-du {giš}UR₃\m-MEŠ\m | |
| 8 | [am—mar] ⸢ša⸣ ṣa-hi-ti-ni | |
| 9 | [x x x] ⸢i⸣-si-ta-⸢te⸣ | |
| 10 | [x x x]+⸢x⸣-u-ni ERIM-MEŠ [o] | |
| 11 | [x] ⸢ša\d⸣ i-si-ni il-[lik-u-ni] | |
| 12 | [x] ša\d LUGAL {1}ki-ṣir—aš-⸢šur⸣ | |
| 13 | {⸢giš⸣}UR₃-MEŠ it-ta-⸢x⸣+[x x] | |
| 14 | [a]-na-ku a-na {uru}BAD₃—[MAN—GIN] | |
| 15 | [at]-⸢ta⸣-al-ka re-[eh-ti] | |
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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