CT 53, 033 (P313448)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 033 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313448 |
| 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/saa05 · 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 Aššur-dur-paniya. Good health to the king, my lord! |
| Obverse [3:7] o 44–o 77 | As to the master builders concerning whom the king, my lord, wrote me: "Give junior ones to the magnates, so they can perform their work assignment with their help" — |
| Obverse [7:12] o 88–o 1212 | (out of) my 16 master builders three are with the palace herald, three are working in the centre [of the city], and ten are engaged in bricking my work allocation of the city wall. (This makes) a total of 16 master builders engaged in work. |
| Obverse [12:19] o 1313– | As for their junior sons, [they are] apprenti[ces], incapable of doing any (serious) work; it is not within their understanding. They just carry chests af[ter them]. |
| Reverse [1:8] r 22–r 88 | I said: "The master builders have wo[rk] to do, I cannot give away [any of them]." I have (already) given [six] master builder[s] to the work assignment of the [centre of the city] and the palace herald, and my own w[ork] is a great burden on me. |
| Reverse [8:10] r 99–r 1010 | [The]se ten master builders at my disposal can[not] go out; they will [not] even break a brick [...]. |
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\p be-li₂-ia | |
| 2 | ARAD-ka {1}aš-šur—BAD₃—IGI-ia | |
| 3 | lu-u₂\m šul-mu a-na LUGAL\p be-li₂-ia | |
| 4 | ina UGU {lu₂p}TIN-MEŠ\t ša\dy LUGAL\p be-li₂ | |
| 5 | iš-pur-an-ni ma-a a-na {lu₂p}GAL-MEŠ QAL₃-MEŠ\p | |
| 6 | di-i-ni ma-a ⸢pil⸣-ku-šu₂-nu ina ŠA₃-bi | |
| 7 | le\p-pu-uš 16 {lu₂}TIN-MEŠ-ni-ia | |
| 8 | 03 ina pa-⸢an⸣ {lu₂}600—E₂.GAL {lu₂}600—E₂.GAL | |
| 9 | 03 ina MURUB₄ [URU] dul₆-lu e-pu-uš | |
| 10 | 10 ša\d pil-ki [o] ina BAD₃\p | |
| 11 | i-ra\p-ṣip\p-u-ni ⸢PAB⸣ 16 {lu₂}TIN-MEŠ | |
| 12 | ša dul₆-lu e-⸢pa⸣-aš₂-šu₂\d-u-ni | |
| 13 | u₃ DUMU-MEŠ-šu₂-nu QAL₃-MEŠ\tp | |
| 14 | {lu₂}tal-mi-da-[ni šu-nu] | |
| 15 | dul₆-lu mi-mi-[ni la e-pu-šu₂] | |
| 16 | ina ŠA₃-bi-šu₂-[nu] | |
| 17 | la ha-ki-[im] | |
| r | ||
| 1 | u₂\m-ni-na-a-te ina i—⸢da⸣-[tu-šu₂-nu] i—⸢da⸣-[tu-šu₂-nu] | |
| 2 | i-za-bi-lu mu-ku dul₆-[lu ša] | |
| 3 | {lu₂p}TIN-MEŠ i-ba\t-aš₂-ši [mi-mi-ni] | |
| 4 | la a-dan-na {lu₂p}TIN-[MEŠ 06 | |
| 5 | ina UGU pil-ki ša\d [MURUB₄ URU] | |
| 6 | ša\d {lu₂}600—E₂.GAL {lu₂}600—E₂.GAL [a]-na-ku | |
| 7 | a-ti\t-din u₃ ⸢dul₆⸣-[lu] ia-u | |
| 8 | ina UGU-hi-ia KALAG-[an] a—dan-niš | |
| 9 | 10 {lu₂p}TIN-MEŠ\t-ni [an]-nu-ti\t | |
| 10 | ša\d ina pa-ni-ia [la] u₂\dm-ṣu-u | |
| 11 | SIG₄-⸢ma⸣ [x x]+⸢x⸣ [i]-ha-pi-u | |
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