CT 53, 056 (P313471)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 056 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313471 |
| 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 Šarru-emuranni. Good health to the king, my lord]! |
| Obverse [3:5] o 44–o 55 | [The forts and the land of the king, my lord, are well]. |
| Obverse [5:11] o 66–o 1111 | [As to those] words which the king, my lord, sent [us] through [Nabû-ahu-uṣur], the royal bodygu[ard]: "Send in this way to the son of Inṣabri" — |
| Obverse [11:19] o 1212– | when Nabû-ahu-uṣur arrived, on that very same d[a]y Šamaš-ukin, a trustworthy and chosen [man] of the fort commander, able in words — |
| Reverse [0:6] r 1r 1–r 66 | we implanted the very words that the king, my lord, sent us, in the mouth of (this) messenger of the fort commander; he left on the 4th day and went to Izirtu. |
| Reverse [6:10] r 77–r 1010 | As soon as he returns, [I] shall write [t]o the king, my lord, everything that he tells us. |
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}LUGAL—IGI.LAL-ni] | |
| 3 | [lu DI-mu a-na LUGAL EN-ia] | |
| 4 | [DI-mu a-na {uru}HAL.ṢU-MEŠ] | |
| 5 | [a-na KUR ša LUGAL EN-ia] | |
| 6 | di-⸢ib-bi⸣ [am-mu-u-te] | |
| 7 | ša\dm ina ŠU.2 {1}{d}PA—PAB—PAB] | |
| 8 | {lu₂v}qur-bu-[tu₂] ⸢LUGAL be-li₂⸣ | |
| 9 | ina UGU-hi-ni iš-pur-⸢an⸣-[ni] | |
| 10 | ma-a ki-i ha-an-ni-⸢i⸣ | |
| 11 | ina UGU DUMU {1}in-ṣab-ri | |
| 12 | šup-ra ⸢ki⸣-i {1}{d}PA—PAB—⸢PAB⸣ | |
| 13 | iq-rib-an-ni | |
| 14 | ina ⸢ŠA₃⸣-bi UD-mi₃-[im]-ma | |
| 15 | {1}{d]}⸢UTU⸣—GIN-⸢in⸣ | |
| 16 | [LU₂] tak-lu u₂-mu-ru | |
| 17 | ⸢ša\dm dib-bi⸣ i-la-u-ni | |
| 18 | ša\dm {lu₂vy}GAL—bir-te {lu₂vy}GAL—bir-te | |
| r | ||
| 1 | dib-bi ki-i ša\d ⸢LUGAL⸣ | |
| 2 | be-li₂ iš-pur-an-⸢ni⸣ | |
| 3 | ina pi-i {lu₂v}A—KIN\t {lu₂v}A—KIN\t | |
| 4 | ša\y {lu₂vy}GAL—bir-te {lu₂vy}GAL—bir-te ni-sa-kan | |
| 5 | UD 04-KAM₂ it-tu-uṣ-ṣi | |
| 6 | a-na {uru}i-zir-te it-ta-⸢lak⸣ | |
| 7 | GIM is-suh-ra mi₃-nu | |
| 8 | ša\dm i-qab-ba-na-ši-ni\d | |
| 9 | [ina] UGU LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 10 | [a]-šap-pa-⸢ra⸣ | |
Sources & licences
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