CT 53, 027 (P313442)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 027 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313442 |
| 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 [1:6] o 2'2'–o 6'6' | [...... T]his [man] had so[ld his] daug[hters for money i]n Karalla. (Later) he put [...] salt in a bag and put his seal in it, went off, and sent it to his daughter(s), saying: "Run away and come to me!" |
| Obverse [6:13] o 7'7'– | An Itu'ean whom I had appointed as a ... in the fort, and who returned this salt, said it to a bodyguard, and the bodyguard wrote (about it) to the king, my lord. |
| Reverse [0:4] r 1r 1–r 44 | As to what the king, my lord, wr[o]te to me, no Karalleans remained (here so) I (could) not ask them, nor are there corn rations, wine, ... (or) kudimmu (salt) that they would be giving them. |
| Reverse [4:7] r 55–r 77 | Now the gods of the king my lord have made it (happen) that [th]ese Karalleans who [...] to |
| Reverse [9:10] r 1010–r 1010 | [...... whom] they station |
| Edge [0:1] e. 1e. 1–e. 1e. 1 | Zer-[......] |
| Edge [1:2] e. 22–e. 22 | did not [......] |
| Edge [2:3] e. 33–e. 33 | in Ka[ralla ......] |
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' | [x x x x x x x x x x x x]-ni | |
| 2' | ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x x x x an]-⸢ni⸣-u₂\m | |
| 3' | DUMU.[MI₂-MEŠ-šu₂ x x ŠA₃]-bi {kur}kar-la | |
| 4' | i-⸢ti\t⸣-[din x x x]+⸢x⸣ MUN\t ina ŠA₃-bi {kušy}A.⸢GA₂⸣.LAL | |
| 5' | {na₄}KIŠIB-šu₂ ina ŠA₃-bi ik-ta-ra-ar₂ it-⸢ta-lak⸣ | |
| 6' | šu-u₂\m a-na\t DUMU.MI₂-šu u₂\m-se-bi-il ma-a | |
| 7' | hi-il-qa-a-ni al-ka-ni {lu₂vy}i-tu-ʾa-a.a | |
| 8' | ša\ydm a-na\t {giš}⸢TAB⸣.BA ina {uru}HAL.ṢU ap-⸢qi-du⸣-u-ni | |
| 9' | MUN\t an-ni-tu u₂\m-sa-hi-ru-u-ni | |
| b.e. | ||
| 10' | a-na\t {lu₂v}qur-bu-te iq-ṭi₂-bi | |
| 11' | {lu₂vy}qur-bu-te\p ina UGU LUGAL EN-ia | |
| r | ||
| 1 | i-sap-ar₂ ša\ydm LUGAL EN iš\t-[pur]-an-ni | |
| 2 | ⸢la⸣-a-šu₂ {kur}kar-la-⸢a.a la i⸣-ri-hu | |
| 3 | la a-ša₂-al-šu₂-nu ⸢la-a⸣ {še}PAD-MEŠ | |
| 4 | GEŠTIN-MEŠ\m ⸢GAZ⸣-MEŠ\m {u₂m}ku-di-me{sarp} | |
| 5 | ⸢ša\yd⸣ i-dan-ša₂-nu-u-ni\d u₂\m-ma-a | |
| 6 | DINGIR-MEŠ\m ša\yd LUGAL EN-ia e-tap-šu | |
| 7 | {kur}kar-⸢la-a.a⸣ [an]-⸢nu-ti\t⸣ ša\yd ina UGU | |
| 8 | [x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣-nu-ti\t | |
| 9 | [x x x x x x x x x]-nu | |
| 10 | [x x x x x x x x x x]-za u₂\m-ša₂-za-zu-nu | |
| e. | ||
| 1 | {1}NUMUN\d—[x x x x x x x] | |
| 2 | la ⸢u₂\m⸣-[x x x x x x x] | |
| 3 | ina {kur}⸢kar⸣-[la x x x x] | |
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