CT 53, 026 (P313441)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 026 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313441 |
| 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/saa16 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:4] o 1o 1–o 44 | To the king, my lord: [your servant Assurbanipal]. Good health to [the king, my lord]! May Nabû and Marduk bless [the king, my lord]. |
| Obverse [4:7] o 55–o 77 | I rejected the [...] assembly of Bel-šallim, the chief of trade. Thereafter [...] |
| Reverse [1:5] r 2'2'–r 5'5' | I spoke to Milki-nuri as the king, my lord, had told me; he looked at the feet, and was trembling with fear. |
| Reverse [5:9] r 6'6'– | I said to him: "Remove the sash from (your) waist and stri[ke] blood!" |
| Right [0:5] r.e. 9r.e. 9– | He said: "May not the king[ship be granted] to the crown prince [...... the y]ears that I live." |
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 MAN EN-⸢ia⸣ [ARAD-ka {1}aš-šur—DU₃—A] | |
| 2 | lu-u DI-mu a-na [MAN EN-ia] | |
| 3 | {d}PA u {d}AMAR.UTU a-⸢na⸣ [MAN EN-ia] | |
| 4 | lik-⸢ru⸣-bu | |
| 5 | ⸢x {lu₂}ki⸣-na-⸢al⸣-ti | |
| 6 | ša {1}EN—šal-lim {lu₂}GAL—KAR {lu₂}GAL—KAR | |
| 7 | ⸢ur-ta-am-me id⸣—da-tu₂ id⸣—da-tu₂ | |
| r | ||
| 1' | ⸢x⸣+[x x x] ⸢x x⸣ | |
| 2' | aq-ṭi-bi a-na {1}mil-ki—ZALAG₂ | |
| 3' | a-ki ša LUGAL be-li₂ iq-ban-ni | |
| 4' | ina UGU GIR₃.2 it-ta-gal | |
| 5' | it-at-na-ag-ra-ra | |
| 6' | aq-ṭi-ba-aš₂-šu₂ nu-uk | |
| 7' | sa-gu ina MURUB₄ ul-li | |
| 8' | MUD₂-MEŠ-ka mi₃-⸢hi⸣-[iṣ] | |
| r.e. | ||
| 9 | iq-ṭi-bi ⸢ma⸣-[a] | |
| 10 | lu la LUGAL-⸢tu⸣ | |
| 11 | a-na A—MAN A—MAN [x x x x] | |
| e. | ||
| 1 | [x x x x x x] ⸢MU⸣.AN.NA-MEŠ ša TI-ku-ni | |
Sources & licences
- Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative · CDLI: reuse of catalogue/transliteration data with citation of CDLI; images restricted (not fetched) · Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI), https://cdli.earth/ ; cite CDLI and the P-number
- 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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