CT 53, 042 (P313457)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 042 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313457 |
| 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]-re[ṣuwa]. Good health to the kin[g, m]y [lord]! |
| Obverse [3:6] o 44–o 66 | Adad-aplu-iddina, the ro[yal body]guard who brought me the sealed order concerning the son of [...]urdâ of Halz[iatbar] — |
| Obverse [6:12] o 77–o 1212 | the bodyguard and I got up and [w]ent to Ku[mme]. Ariye [received] us, but did [not] give us any orders; he left and went [to the Pala]ce. |
| Obverse [12:14] o 1313–o 1414 | The king, my lord, should [g]o and speak with him. The [...] officials |
| Obverse [14:15] o 1515–o 1515 | [...] of the king, my lord |
| Obverse [16:17] o 1717–o 1717 | [......] all |
| Reverse [1:6] r 2'2'–r 6'6' | Let the king, my lord, [...] and say to h[im] as follows: "To whomever did you give 6 homers of barley, 4 homers of wine and 20 sheep?" |
| Reverse [6:10] r 7'7'–r 10'10' | Now, this one will be the closest relat[ive] until a (further) sealed order reaches me. |
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\td LUGAL\d EN-ia | |
| 2 | ARAD-ka {1}[aš-šur]—re-[ṣu-u-a] | |
| 3 | lu DI\d-mu ⸢a-na\td LUGAL⸣ [EN]-⸢ia⸣ | |
| 4 | {1}{d}IM—A—AŠ {lu₂vy}⸢qur-bu⸣-ti\t | |
| 5 | ša\y un-qu ⸢ina UGU⸣-[hi]-⸢ia⸣ na\td-ṣa-ni\d | |
| 6 | ina UGU ⸢DUMU⸣ {1}⸢x⸣-[x]-ur-da-a | |
| 7 | ša\y {kur}⸢hal-zi⸣—[AD.BAR a]-na\td-ku | |
| 8 | u₃ {⸢lu₂vy⸣}[qur-bu]-⸢ti\t⸣ ni\d-tab-ba | |
| 9 | ina {uru}ku-⸢um⸣-[me ni]-tal-ka | |
| 10 | {1}a-ri-e ⸢x⸣-[x]-⸢x⸣-na\td-ši | |
| 11 | ṭe₃-e-mu-⸢ma⸣ [la] ⸢iš⸣-kun-⸢na\td⸣-na\td-ši | |
| 12 | i-tab-ba [ina E₂].GAL i-tal-ka | |
| 13 | LUGAL\dp be-li₂ [lil]-⸢li⸣-ka i-si-šu₂ | |
| 14 | lid-bu-ub {⸢lu₂v⸣}[x-x]-⸢MEŠ⸣ | |
| 15 | bi ⸢x⸣ [x x x x]+⸢x ša⸣ LUGAL\d be-li₂\d-ia | |
| 16 | ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x x] ⸢ri⸣ | |
| 17 | [x x x x x x x x] ⸢gab⸣-bi | |
| r | ||
| 1' | ma-⸢a⸣ [x x x x x x] | |
| 2' | LUGAL\d be-li₂ lu [x x x x] | |
| 3' | ki-i an-ni-e ⸢li-iq⸣-ba-⸢šu⸣ | |
| 4' | ma-a a-na\td man-ni\d-ma | |
| 5' | 06 ANŠE {še}PAD-⸢MEŠ⸣ 04 ANŠE GEŠTIN-MEŠ\m | |
| 6' | 20 UDU.HI.A-MEŠ\m ta-din | |
| 7' | u₂-ma-a {lu₂vy}qur-⸢bu⸣ | |
| 8' | an-ni-iu-ma šu-u-tu | |
| 9' | a-du be₂-et ⸢un⸣-qu | |
| 10' | ina UGU-hi-ia tal-lak-an-ni | |
Sources & licences
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