CT 53, 049 (P313464)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 049 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313464 |
| 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/saa10 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:4] o 1o 1–o 44 | [To the king, my lord: your servant Adad-šumu-uṣur. Good health to the king, my lord! May Nabû and Marduk bless] the king, [my] lord! |
| Obverse [4:6] o 55–o 66 | The charge [of the] re[ar palace is well]. |
| Obverse [6:13] o 77–o 1313 | [Concerning the s]ubstitute [king] about whom the king, [my lord, wrote] to me: "I was told [that he should sit (on the throne) until the] 8th of Elul (VI); is it ... that we shall perform (the ritual) Bīt salā' mê in the month Tishri (VII)?" — when a substitute king was sitting in the month Marchesvan (VIII), in Sivan (III) [...] |
| Reverse [1:4] r 2'2'–r 4'4' | We are [n]ow [waiting for] a [solar] eclipse; [if] it passes by, the king, my lord, should act in t[his way]. |
| Reverse [4:9] r 5'5'–r 9'9' | We will see [...] |
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 be-li₂-ia] | |
| 2 | [ARAD-ka {1}{d}IM—MU—PAB] | |
| 3 | [lu DI-mu a-na LUGAL EN-ia] | |
| 4 | {[d}AG {d}AMAR.UTU a-na] ⸢LUGAL⸣ be-⸢li₂⸣-[ia] | |
| 5 | [lik-ru-bu DI-mu] ⸢a⸣-na pi-qit-te | |
| 6 | [ša E₂—ku-tal]-li E₂—ku-tal]-li | |
| 7 | [ina UGU LUGAL]—⸢pu⸣-u-hi ša LUGAL | |
| 8 | [be-li₂ iš-pur]-⸢an⸣-ni ma-a iq-ṭi-bu-ni | |
| 9 | [ma-a a-du UD] 08-KAM₂ ša₂ {iti}KIN | |
| 10 | [lu-šib] ma-a bi-is ša₂ {iti}DU₆ | |
| 11 | E₂—sa-la—me-e ne₂-pa-šu-u-ni | |
| 12 | a-ki ina {iti}APIN LUGAL—pu-u-hi | |
| 13 | ⸢kam⸣-mu-su-u-ni ina {iti}SIG₄ | |
| r | ||
| 1' | ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x x x] | |
| 2' | AN.⸢MI⸣ {[d}UTU u₂]-⸢ma⸣-a | |
| 3' | ni-[da-gal šum-ma] us-se-ti-iq | |
| 4' | ki-i ⸢an⸣-[ni-ma] ⸢LUGAL⸣ be-li₂ | |
| 5' | le-pu-⸢uš⸣ ne₂-⸢e⸣-mur | |
| 6' | [x x x]+⸢x⸣-qab-bi-u-ni | |
| 7' | [x x x x] šu-u₂ | |
| 8' | [x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ | |
| 9' | [x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ | |
Sources & licences
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