CT 53, 040 (P313455)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 040 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313455 |
| 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 [Na'di]-ilu. Good health to the king, my lord! |
| Obverse [3:8] o 44–o 88 | As to the chariot troops from Que about whom the king, my lord, wrote to me: "Enquire and investigate, and if they [have no] food and seed, write me" — |
| Obverse [8:10] o 99–o 1010 | the people [...] who are with 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}[I]—DINGIR | |
| 3 | lu-u DI-mu a-na LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 4 | ina UGU {lu₂vy}EN—{giš}GIGIR-MEŠ {lu₂vy}EN—{giš}GIGIR-MEŠ | |
| 5 | {kur}qu-u₂\p-a.a ša LUGAL be-li₂ | |
| 6 | iš-pur-an-ni ma-a ša₂-⸢ʾa⸣-al | |
| 7 | u₂\p-ṣi-ṣi šum₂-ma NINDA-[MEŠ-šu₂]-⸢nu⸣ | |
| 8 | {šep}NUMUN-MEŠ-šu₂-nu ⸢la⸣-[aš₂-šu₂] | |
| 9 | ma-a šup-ra UN-⸢MEŠ⸣ [x x x] | |
| 10 | ša\y i-si-šu₂-nu [x x x x] | |
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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