CT 53, 061 (P313476)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 061 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313476 |
| 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/saa15 · 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 NN]. Good [health to the king, my lord]! |
| Obverse [3:19] o 44– | Concerning [what the king, my lord], wrote me: "Give [master builders] to [the magnates] who have no master builders; let [them ...]!" — there are six mas[ter builders] with me, and [we] are doing the king's work. From the beginning I have constantly been writing to Bad[â] and Lans[î]: "[Everybody] should bring a m[aster builder] for his work assignment, not one master builder should [be missing]!" |
| Bottom [0:11] b.e. 19b.e. 19– | The king, my lord, [knows] that there is a runaw[ay] master builder, a Kassi[te], in our presence. I have [now] brought the six master builders and the Kas[site] with me. If I give one to Badâ and one to Lansî, there will be four (only) at my disposal to [d]o the work. |
| Reverse [8:15] r 99–r 1515 | Let them send [the Kassi]t[e] to the offi[cial] of Lansî: "Is [he] a master buil[der of yours?]" If he is, [let] the king, my lord, [...]. |
| Edge [0:1] e. 1e. 1–e. 1e. 1 | I will do the work and del[iver] it to the king, my lord. |
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}x x x x x] | |
| 3 | lu [DI-mu a-na LUGAL EN-ia] | |
| 4 | ina UGU [ša LUGAL be-li₂] | |
| 5 | iš\t-pur\p-an-[ni ma-a {lu₂v}TIN-MEŠ] | |
| 6 | di-i-ni a-⸢na⸣ {[lu₂v}GAL-MEŠ] | |
| 7 | ša\d {lu₂v}TIN-⸢MEŠ⸣-[šu₂-nu] | |
| 8 | la-aš₂-šu₂-ni\d lu [qur-bu] | |
| 9 | 06 šu₂\d-nu {lu₂v}⸢TIN⸣-[MEŠ] | |
| 10 | ša\dm i-se-e-a [x x] | |
| 11 | ⸢dul₆⸣-lu ša\dd ⸢LUGAL\d⸣ | |
| 12 | [ne₂]-pa-aš₂ TA\d ⸢SAG⸣ | |
| 13 | [ina] UGU {1}ba-⸢da⸣-[a] | |
| 14 | ina UGU {1}la-an-⸢si⸣-[i] | |
| 15 | a-sa-ta\d-bar mu-[ku ia-mut-tu] | |
| 16 | a-na\t pil-ki-šu₂ {⸢lu₂v⸣}[TIN] | |
| 17 | lu-u-bi-la 01.⸢en⸣ | |
| 18 | {lu₂v}TIN la [i-ma-ṭi] | |
| b.e. | ||
| 19 | LUGAL be-li₂ [u₂-da] | |
| 20 | {lu₂v}TIN hal-[qu] | |
| r | ||
| 1 | {lu₂v}kaš-ša₂-[a.a] | |
| 2 | ina pa-ni\d-ni\d [u₂-ma-a] | |
| 3 | 06 {lu₂v}TIN-MEŠ\mm {lu₂v}kaš-[ša₂-a.a] | |
| 4 | i-se-e-a na-ṣa-ka ⸢ki⸣-[ma] | |
| 5 | 01.en a-na\t {1}ba-da-a | |
| 6 | 01.en a-na\t {1}la-an-si-i | |
| 7 | a-ti-⸢din⸣ 04 ina pa-ni\d-ia₂ | |
| 8 | dul₆-⸢li⸣ [e]-⸢pu⸣-šu₂ [o] | |
| 9 | liš\d-pa-ru-[ni {lu₂v}kaš-ša₂]-⸢a⸣.[a] | |
| 10 | a-na\t {lu₂v}EN—pi-[qit-ti] {lu₂v}EN—pi-[qit-ti] | |
| 11 | ša\dm {1}la-an-si-⸢i⸣ | |
| 12 | ma-a {lu₂v}e\d-tin-[na-ka] | |
| 13 | i-ba-aš₂-[ši-i] | |
| 14 | šum₂\m-ma i-ba-aš₂-⸢ši⸣ | |
| 15 | LUGAL be-li₂ ⸢x⸣+[x x x] | |
| e. | ||
| 1 | dul-lu le-pu\t-šu₂ a-na\y LUGAL be-li₂\d-ia₂ la-[din] | |
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