CT 53, 096 + (P313511)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 096 + |
|---|---|
| ID | P313511 |
| 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 |
|---|---|
| Reverse [1:7] r 22–r 77 | No Bel-i[qbi] (is telling me): "Bring me the barley I gave to your [...] and let me give it to the king's captives!" |
| Reverse [7:17] r 88–r 1717 | Has the king my lord sent a messenger, and [has he s]een their houses and silos? They have weakened me, and no matter what is told them, they refuse to listen to me. |
| Reverse [17:20] r 1818–r 2020 | Aššur-ašared, a bea[rded] (courtier) [...] in the city of Ni[......]. |
| Edge [0:1] e. 1e. 1–e. 1e. 1 | [The container]s of water [......] have been finished [.....] |
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' | [x x x x x x]-⸢e⸣ | |
| 2' | [x x x x x x] tu₂ | |
| 3' | [x x x x x]-⸢u₂⸣-ni | |
| 4' | [x x x x {lu₂vy]}⸢EN⸣.NAM\p | |
| b.e. | ||
| 5' | [x x x x x]-MEŠ\m | |
| 6' | [x x x x na]-⸢a⸣-ṣa | |
| 7' | [x x x x]-⸢ta\p⸣ a\d-di | |
| r | ||
| 1 | [x x x x x]-i-ni\d | |
| 2 | [x x x x x] ⸢a⸣-nu-rig | |
| 3 | {1}{d]}EN—⸢iq\d⸣-[bi ma]-⸢a⸣ {šep}PAD-MEŠ\m | |
| 4 | ⸢ša\yd⸣ ina UGU [x x]-⸢ka⸣ | |
| 5 | a-di-nu-u-ni\d | |
| 6 | bi-la a\d-na hu-ub\m-te\p | |
| 7 | ša\yd LUGAL la-di-i-ni | |
| 8 | LUGAL be-li\d {lu₂vy}DUMU—šip-ri {lu₂vy}DUMU—šip-ri | |
| 9 | iš-pur-ra | |
| 10 | be₂-ta\p-a\d-ti\t-šu₂-nu | |
| 11 | pa-da\y-ka-a\d-ti\t-šu₂-nu | |
| 12 | [e]-mu\d-u-ru\d | |
| 13 | [a]-na ia-a\d-ši | |
| 14 | ⸢u₂\m⸣-ta\p-ni-šu₂-u-ni\d | |
| 15 | [ina] UGU ša\ydm qa-ba\t-šu₂-nu-u-ni\d | |
| 16 | ⸢la⸣-a\d i-ma-gur₂-ru\d | |
| 17 | ⸢la⸣-a\d i-ša₂-mu\d-u-ni\d | |
| 18 | {1}aš-šur—MAŠ {lu₂vy}ša₂—⸢ziq⸣-[ni] | |
| 19 | ⸢ina⸣ {uru}ni-[x x x x x] | |
| 20 | [x] ⸢bi⸣ EN [x x x x x] | |
| e. | ||
| 1 | [x x x]-MEŠ-ni\d ša\ydm A-MEŠ\m i-[x x x x] | |
| 2 | [x x x x x] gam-ru\m ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x] | |
Sources & licences
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