CT 53, 052 (P313467)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 052 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313467 |
| 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 [0:5] o 1o 1–o 55 | [To the 'farmer,' my lord: your servant Urad-Nanaya. The very best of health to the 'farmer,' my lord!] May [Ninurta and Gula] gi[ve happiness and physical well-being to the 'farme]r,' my lord! |
| Obverse [5:8] o 66–o 88 | [As to the cure] of the blotches [......], they should let me enter [...] |
| Obverse [8:9] o 99–o 99 | seed of the beet plant [...] |
| Obverse [9:10] o 1010–o 1010 | whose mouth [......] |
| Obverse [10:11] o 1111–o 1111 | in water [......] |
| Reverse [0:1] r 1'1'–r 1'1' | is good [......] |
| Reverse [1:2] r 2'2'–r 2'2' | they should do it regularly [......]. |
| Reverse [2:8] r 3'3'–r 8'8' | Perhaps my lord will sa[y]: "This is a gloo[my] day — [it is n]ot auspicious for performing (that)!" — this [treatment] which we are performing [...] a gloom[y day ......] |
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 {lu₂}ENGAR EN-ia] | |
| 2 | [ARAD-ka {1}ARAD—{d}na-na-a] | |
| 3 | [lu šul-mu ad—dan-niš ad—dan-niš] | |
| 4 | [a-na {lu₂}ENGAR EN-ia {d}MAŠ u {d}gu-la] | |
| 5 | [DUG₃-ub lib-bi DUG₃-ub UZU-MEŠ a-na] | |
| 6 | {[lu₂]}⸢ENGAR⸣ EN-ia ⸢lid⸣-[di-nu ina UGU bu-ul-ṭi] | |
| 7 | ša pi-ʾa-ri ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x] | |
| 8 | lu-še-ri-bu-u-[ni x x x x x] | |
| 9 | NUMUN GAZI{sar} ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x] | |
| 10 | ⸢ša⸣ pi-i-šu₂ [x x x x x x x x] | |
| 11 | ina A-⸢MEŠ⸣ [x x x x x x x x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | ⸢de⸣-ii-qi 03 [x x x x x x] | |
| 2' | li-is-di-ru [x x x x x x] | |
| 3' | i—su-ur-ri be-li₂ ⸢i⸣-[qab-bi] | |
| 4' | ma-a UD-mu an-ni-u ša₂ ta-⸢dir⸣-[ti] | |
| 5' | šu-u₂ a-na e-pa-ši ⸢la⸣ [ṭa-a-ba dul-lu] | |
| 6' | an-ni-u ša ne₂-pa-aš₂-[u-ni x x x] | |
| 7' | [UD-mu] ša ta-dir-[te x x x x x] | |
| 8' | [x x] ⸢x x⸣ [x x x x x x x] | |
Sources & licences
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