CT 53, 039 (P313454)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 039 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313454 |
| 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 [0:3] o 1o 1–o 33 | [To the king, my lord: your servant NN. Good health to the king, my lord]! |
| Obverse [5:21] o 66– | [... I departed from] Zabban [and en]tered [GN on the x]th. [The magnate]s had passed on [be]fore me, saying: "Keep (going)!" I went after them, moving on. Those Tabaleans, Pišermu and [...]kuka, are [in] my [pr]es[ence. If the ki]ng, my lord, commands, they may stay behind [here]. |
| Reverse [5:10] r 66–r 1010 | [Alte]rn[atively, let] them [g]o with me to where the camp is being assembled, so that their animals [...]. In whose care [should I l]eave 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 | [a-na LUGAL EN-ia] | |
| 2 | [ARAD-ka {1}x x x x] | |
| 3 | [x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ | |
| 4 | [x x x x x x] mu | |
| 5 | [x x x x x x] a | |
| 6 | [x x x x TA] {⸢uru⸣}za-ban | |
| 7 | [u₂-ta-mi₃-iš UD x]-KAM | |
| 8 | [ina {uru}x x e]-⸢tar⸣-ba | |
| 9 | [x x x x x]+⸢x⸣-MEŠ | |
| 10 | [ina pa]-na-tu₂-u-a e\d-ta-at-qu | |
| 11 | ⸢ma⸣-a ke-e-le | |
| 12 | ina da\d-tu₂-šu₂-nu a-ta-lak | |
| 13 | e-te-te-qe | |
| b.e. | ||
| 14 | {kur}ta-bal-a.a am-mu-te | |
| r | ||
| 1 | {1}⸢pi⸣-še-er-mu | |
| 2 | {1}x]+⸢x-ku⸣-u-ka | |
| 3 | [ina] ⸢IGI⸣-ia šu₂-nu | |
| 4 | [šum-ma] ⸢LUGAL⸣ EN i-qa-bi | |
| 5 | [an-na-ka] ⸢li⸣-mar-ku-u | |
| 6 | [u₂]-⸢la⸣-[a] i-⸢si⸣-ia | |
| 7 | [lil]-⸢li⸣-ku ina E₂\t ma-dak-tu₂ | |
| 8 | ⸢u₂⸣-pa-hu-ru\d-u-ni | |
| 9 | ⸢ba-si⸣ {anše}u₂-ma-me-šu₂-nu | |
| 10 | [x] ⸢x⸣ ina pa-an ma-ni | |
| 11 | [lu]-⸢ra⸣-me-šu₂-nu | |
Sources & licences
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- 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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