CT 53, 044 (P313459)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
Open in the reader & map →See it among all tablets
| Designation | CT 53, 044 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313459 |
| 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/saa16 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [1:2] o 2'2'–o 2'2' | ["]He gave [......]. |
| Obverse [2:11] o 3'3'– | "The governor of Que hates me. May the king ask Sasî, just as the king wrote to us in Harran. The king [ra]ged at me and I got very scared." |
| Bottom [1:9] b.e. 11'11'– | [...... who] brought [...], says: "I am a servant of the king; his [fat]her [made] me enter the treaty. You will h[ear w]hatever [I he]ar in Go[mer] |
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' | ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x x x] | |
| 2' | ⸢i⸣-tan-⸢na x⸣+[x x] ⸢x⸣+[x x] | |
| 3' | {lu₂v}EN.NAM ša {kur}qu-⸢e⸣ | |
| 4' | i-zi-ir-ra-an-ni | |
| 5' | ma-a LUGAL a-na {1}sa-si-i | |
| 6' | liš-al ki-i ša LUGAL a-na {uru}KASKAL{⸢ki⸣} | |
| 7' | ⸢iš⸣-pur-an-na-ši-i-ni | |
| 8' | [ma]-a LUGAL ina UGU-hi-ia | |
| 9' | [ir]-⸢tu⸣-u₂-bu | |
| b.e. | ||
| 10' | [ma-a] ⸢a—dan⸣-niš ⸢ap⸣-ta-lah₃ | |
| 11' | [x x]+⸢x⸣-hi ⸢x⸣+[x x x]+⸢x⸣ ti ⸢x x⸣ | |
| r | ||
| 2 | ⸢u₂⸣-bi-lu-u₂-⸢ni i⸣-qab-bi ⸢ma-a⸣ {lu₂}ARAD ša LUGAL a-na-ku | |
| 3 | [ma-a] ⸢AD⸣-šu₂ ina ŠA₃-bi a-de-e | |
| 4 | [u₂]-⸢se⸣-ri-ba-an-⸢ni⸣ | |
| 5 | [ma-a mi₃]-i-nu ša ina {kur}gi-[mir] | |
| 6 | [a-šam]-mu-u₂-ni ta-⸢šam⸣-[me] | |
| 7 | [x x x] ⸢x x na⸣ [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)
Cite the original edition and translator. Page generated by Unread Atlas from the public corpus export of 2026-10-11.