CT 53, 079 (P313494)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 079 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313494 |
| 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 Adad-issiya. Good health to] the king, [my] lo[rd]! |
| Obverse [3:9] o 44–o 99 | [As to] the seed corn [about wh]ich the king, my lord, wr[ote me]: "Nabû-[...] must cultivate 1,000 (homers of) seed, Mannu-ki-Adad must cultivate [1],000, and you too must cultivate [1],000 (homers of) seed corn" — [wh]ere? I cannot do it! |
| Obverse [9:15] o 1010–o 1515 | [I] cultivate corn in the face of harsh [...]. They, by contrast, having planted their seed, [e]at from it, feed [their] horses [fr]om it, and (even) cultiva[te s]eed fro[m it]. |
| Obverse [15:18] o 1616–o 1818 | [They] have seized [...] from the Med[es ......] |
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 EN-ia] | |
| 2 | [ARAD-ka {1}{d}IM—KI—ia] | |
| 3 | [lu DI-mu a-na] LUGAL ⸢EN⸣-[ia] | |
| 4 | [ina UGU] {še}NUMUN\d ⸢ša\y⸣ LUGAL EN iš-⸢pur⸣-[an-ni] | |
| 5 | [ma-a {1}{d]}AG—⸢x⸣ 01 lim {še}⸢NUMUN⸣ | |
| 6 | ⸢le\d⸣-ru-⸢uš⸣ ma-a {1}man-nu—ki—{⸢d}IM⸣ | |
| 7 | 01 ⸢lim⸣ le\d-ru-uš ma-a ⸢at-ta⸣ | |
| 8 | 01-⸢lim⸣-ma ⸢a⸣-ru-uš | |
| 9 | ⸢ia⸣-a-ka ⸢la mu⸣-qa\d-a.a pu-ut | |
| 10 | [x x]+⸢x⸣-MEŠ\m-te ⸢dan⸣-na-te a-na-ku | |
| 11 | [e]-ra-aš₂ šu-nu {še}NUMUN\d | |
| 12 | [e]-ta\p-ar₂-šu₂ TA@v\m ŠA₃-bi ⸢i-ku⸣-ul | |
| 13 | [TA@v\m] ŠA₃-bi KUR.RA-MEŠ\m-[šu₂-nu] | |
| 14 | ⸢u₂⸣-ša₂-ku-ul TA@v\m [ŠA₃-bi] | |
| 15 | {[še]}NUMUN\d i-ru-[šu] | |
| 16 | [x] ⸢x x TA⸣ {kur}ma-⸢da⸣-[a.a] | |
| 17 | [u₂]-ṣa-bi-tu TA@v\m ⸢ur⸣ [x x x] | |
| 18 | [x x] ⸢x x x⸣ [x x x x x] | |
Sources & licences
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