CT 53, 032 + 380 (P313447)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 032 + 380 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313447 |
| 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 | As to what the king, my lord, wrote to me: "The new boat which is coming from the Inner City — is there any (other) boat you are bringing in addition to it?" — |
| Obverse [8:11] o 99–o 1111 | Six Assyrian boats have been launched on the river. I showed them to the boatmen, but they said: "We won't go near them." |
| Obverse [11:22] o 1212– | Now, I am going to bring two of these boats and, going back and forth, [use them to transport] the stone steps and thresholds [of] the watchtowers, until I can make [the remaining] boats available. |
| Reverse [4:9] r 55–r 99 | [I once committed] a deadly sin, but the king, my lord, let me live. And th[is one] — now, I suggested it to the king, the king my lord has [...]ed his soul. |
| Reverse [9:15] r 1010–r 1515 | Until I have these boats ready, I will bear the responsibility for the stone colossi in Adia. [I will ...] them [...] this [....] and [bring] them [over to] this bank (of the river). |
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 | ⸢ša⸣ LUGAL be-li₂ iš-pur-an-ni | |
| 5 | ⸢ma⸣-a {giš}MA₂ GIBIL\d-tu₂ | |
| 6 | ⸢ša⸣ TA@v\m {uru}ŠA₃—URU tal-lak-a-ni | |
| 7 | i-ba-aš₂-ši-i {giš}MA₂ ša i-si-ša₂ | |
| 8 | tu-qar-ra\t-bu\p-ni 06 ši\d-na {gišd}MA₂-MEŠ | |
| 9 | [aš]-šur-a.a-te ša\ym ina ID₂ kar-ra\td-ni | |
| 10 | uk-ta-li-im a-na {lu₂v}MA₂.DU.DU-MEŠ | |
| 11 | iq-ṭi₂-bi-u ma-a la-aš₂-šu₂ | |
| 12 | la ni-qar-ri-bi u₂-ma-a | |
| 13 | {giš}MA₂-MEŠ an-na-te | |
| 14 | 02 TA@v\m ŠA₃-bi-ši-na | |
| b.e. | ||
| 15 | ⸢u₂⸣-qar-rab u₂-ta-⸢ra⸣ | |
| 16 | {na₄}mi₃-il-[a-ni] | |
| r | ||
| 1 | {na₄}I.DIB-MEŠ [ša a-na] | |
| 2 | na\y-me-ri ⸢u₂⸣-[qar-ra-ba] | |
| 3 | a-di {giš}MA₂-MEŠ [re-ha-te] | |
| 4 | u₂-šak\td-ša₂-du-ni [x x] | |
| 5 | hi-ṭu ša\dt mu-a-ti ⸢x⸣+[x x] | |
| 6 | LUGAL be-li₂ ⸢ub-ta⸣-li-ṭa-ni | |
| 7 | ⸢u₃ an⸣-[ni-tu₂] u₂-ma-a | |
| 8 | a-na LUGAL [EN]-⸢ia⸣ aq-⸢ṭi₂-bi⸣ | |
| 9 | LUGAL be-li₂ ZI-šu₂ ⸢u₂-x⸣-ki | |
| 10 | a-di {giš}MA₂-MEŠ an-na-te | |
| 11 | a-ga-mar-u-ni pu-tu\tt-hu | |
| 12 | {[na₄]}{⸢d⸣}ALAD.{d}LAMA-MEŠ an-nu-te | |
| 13 | [ša ina] {uru}a-di-a na-ṣa-ku | |
| 14 | [a-na bat]-⸢te⸣ an-ni-te | |
| 15 | [x x x]+⸢x⸣-šu₂-nu ina bat-te an-ni-te | |
| 16 | [x x x]+⸢x⸣-šu₂-nu | |
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