CT 53, 029 (P313444)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 029 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313444 |
| 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 [1:2] o 2'2'–o 2'2' | [...... the] Ru'ua who |
| Obverse [2:3] o 3'3'–o 3'3' | [......] went away |
| Obverse [3:4] o 4'4'–o 4'4' | [...... Kalbi]-Ukû became afraid |
| Obverse [4:5] o 5'5'–o 5'5' | [......] The men of the son of Yakin |
| Obverse [5:6] o 6'6'–o 6'6' | [...... who] are hauling |
| Obverse [6:8] o 7'7'–o 8'8' | [......] has written to me: "Come [to] my help [......]! |
| Obverse [8:10] o 9'9'–o 10'10' | I shall go [... ...] days [...] |
| Reverse [3:4] r 4'4'–r 4'4' | [... brou]ght [...] |
| Reverse [4:7] r 5'5'–r 7'7' | I [...ed and we]nt [...]. News of [the ...s]: all is [well]. They are keeping watch over them. |
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 x x x x] | |
| 2' | [x x x x x x x {lu₂v]}⸢ru\d-ʾu⸣-u₂\m-a ša\dm a-na | |
| 3' | [x x x x x x x x]-⸢ta⸣-ri it-ta-tak-ku | |
| 4' | [x x x ma-a {1}kal-bi]—⸢u₂\m⸣-ku-u-a ip-ta-lah₃ | |
| 5' | [x x x x x x x]-⸢lu⸣-ku ERIM-MEŠ\m ša\dm DUMU—{1}ia-GIN | |
| 6' | [x x x x x x x x] i-šad-da-du-u-ni | |
| 7' | [x x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ ina UGU-hi-ia₂ i-sa-bar | |
| 8' | [ma-a x x x a-na] a.a-li\tt-ia al-⸢ka⸣ | |
| 9' | [x x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ al-lak UD-MEŠ\m [x x] | |
| 10' | [x x x x x x x x x] ⸢x⸣ ba\t ⸢x⸣+[x x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [x x x x x x] ⸢i ra⸣ [x x x] | |
| 2' | [x x x x x]-⸢šu₂⸣ un-[x x x x] | |
| 3' | [x x x]-⸢ih⸣-hu-u-ni [x x x] | |
| 4' | [x x x]+⸢x⸣-bil at-te\t-⸢x⸣+[x x x] | |
| 5' | [at-ta]-lak ṭe₃-mu ša\dm [x x x] | |
| 6' | [DUG₃.GA] a—dan\d-niš EN.NUN-⸢šu₂-nu⸣ | |
| 7' | [i]-⸢na⸣-ṣu-ru\d | |
Sources & licences
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