CT 53, 028 (P313443)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 028 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313443 |
| 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/saa10 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:6] o 1o 1–o 66 | To the king, my lord: your servant Adad-šumu-uṣur. Good health to the king, my lord! May Nabû and [Marduk] bless the king, my lord! |
| Obverse [6:15] o 77– | The c[har]ge of the rear palace is well. We are doing (our) work and stay awake (with him) unremittingly, and we pray to the gods. |
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-ia | |
| 2 | ARAD-ka {1}{d}IM—MU—PAB | |
| 3 | lu-u šul-mu ana LUGAL | |
| 4 | be-li₂-ia {d}AG | |
| 5 | u {⸢d⸣}[AMAR.UTU] a-na LUGAL | |
| 6 | be-li₂-⸢ia lik⸣-ru-bu | |
| 7 | DI-mu a-na ⸢pi-qit⸣-ti | |
| 8 | ša₂ E₂—ku-tal-li E₂—ku-tal-li | |
| 9 | a-ni-nu dul-lu | |
| 10 | ne₂-ep-pa-aš₂ | |
| 11 | ni-da-lip | |
| b.e. | ||
| 12 | la ni-ši-aṭ | |
| r | ||
| 1 | DINGIR-MEŠ nu-ṣal-la | |
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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