CT 53, 087 (P313502)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 087 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313502 |
| 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/saa01 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:2] o 1o 1–o 22 | To the king, my lord: your servant Samnuha-[beli-uṣur]. |
| Obverse [2:3] o 33–o 33 | Good health to the king, my lord! |
| Obverse [3:15] o 44–o 1515 | The king, my lord, knows that the Šadikanneans are hirelings; they work for hire all over the king's lands. They are no runaways; the perform the ilku duty and supply king's men from their midst. The king [...... |
| Reverse [6:13] r 7'7'–r 13'13' | May [the king my lord] not give [such] a command! Otherwise, let the king my lord command that each should go to his government department — the army must not be weakened, not a single man [should be missing] from the campaign, they should all together come t[o 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⸣-a | |
| 2 | ARAD-ka {1}{d}sa-am-nu-ha—[U—PAB] | |
| 3 | DI-mu a-na LUGAL EN-a | |
| 4 | LUGAL be-li₂ u₂-da\d | |
| 5 | ki-i {uru}⸢še-di⸣-kan-a.a | |
| 6 | {lu₂vy}mu-un-⸢na⸣-[ag]-⸢ru⸣-te | |
| 7 | šu-nu-u-ni | |
| 8 | ina KUR.KUR-MEŠ\d ša\yd LUGAL | |
| 9 | in-na-gu-ru | |
| 10 | ⸢la⸣ hal-qu-te šu₂-nu | |
| 11 | ⸢il⸣-ku il-lu-ku | |
| 12 | [TA@v] ⸢ŠA₃⸣-bi-šu₂-nu {lu₂vy}ERIM-MEŠ\d—MAN {lu₂vy}ERIM-MEŠ\d—MAN | |
| 13 | [id]-⸢du⸣-nu | |
| 14 | [x x x x]-⸢hu⸣-ti\t LUGAL | |
| 15 | [x x x x x]+⸢x x⸣-te | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ | |
| 2' | [x x x x x x] | |
| 3' | [x x x x x x] | |
| 4' | [x x x x x]-na-te | |
| 5' | ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x] hal | |
| 6' | ⸢x x⸣+[x x x x] | |
| 7' | lu la ⸢i-qab-bi⸣ | |
| 8' | u₂-la-a ⸢LUGAL EN liq⸣-bi | |
| 9' | ma-a i-⸢mut⸣-tu₂ | |
| 10' | a-na\t E₂—EN-MEŠ\m-šu₂ E₂—EN-MEŠ\m-šu₂ lil\m-lik | |
| 11' | {lu₂}ERIM-MEŠ lu la un-nu-uš | |
| 12' | LU₂ 01 TA@v\m KASKAL [lu] ⸢la⸣ [i-ma-ṭi] | |
| 13' | TA@v\m-e-⸢niš⸣ ina ⸢UGU⸣ [LUGAL EN-a] | |
| 14' | lil\m-[li-ka] | |
Sources & licences
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