CT 53, 112 (P313527)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 112 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313527 |
| 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 [0:3] o 1o 1–o 33 | [To the king, my lord: your servant Ṭab-šar-Aššur. Good heal]th to [the king, my lord!] |
| Obverse [3:11] o 44–o 1111 | [As I wrote] to the ki[ng, my lord], I am [receiving] the chariots of the magnates on the afternoon of the 16th and they are giving them over to me — the Comm[ander-in-Chief], the Sartinnu, the Vizier, the Palace Herald, the Chief [Cupbearer], the Treasurer, and the governor of [Calah]; in all 1[00] chariots capable of carrying ...[...]. |
| Obverse [11:20] o 1212– | The chariots of the C[hief Eunuch] and the governor of Nineveh [...] are missing; what does the king my lord say? |
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}DUG₃—IM—aš-šur] | |
| 3 | [lu DI]-⸢mu a⸣-[na LUGAL EN-ia] | |
| 4 | [ki-i] ⸢ša⸣ a-na\t ⸢LUGAL⸣ [EN-ia aš₂-pur-an-ni] | |
| 5 | [UD] 16-KAM ina sa-har [UD-me] | |
| 6 | {[giš]}GIGIR-MEŠ ša\yd {lu₂v}GAL-MEŠ a-[ma-har] | |
| 7 | [i]-da\d-nu-u-ni {lu₂v}tur-[ta-nu] | |
| 8 | {[lu₂v]}⸢sar⸣-tin-nu {lu₂v}⸢SUKKAL⸣ | |
| 9 | {[lu₂v]}⸢NIGIR₂⸣—E₂.GAL {[lu₂v]}⸢NIGIR₂⸣—E₂.GAL {lu₂v}⸢GAL⸣—[KAŠ.LUL] {lu₂v}⸢GAL⸣—[KAŠ.LUL] | |
| 10 | {lu₂v}⸢IGI⸣.DUB\m {lu₂v}EN.NAM ⸢ša\yd⸣ {[uru}kal-ha] | |
| 11 | PAB 01 [me] {giš}GIGIR-MEŠ ša\yd sal ⸢šab⸣ [x x] | |
| 12 | i-ma-tah-ʾu-ni ša\yd {lu₂v}⸢GAL⸣—[SAG] {lu₂v}⸢GAL⸣—[SAG] | |
| 13 | [u] {lu₂v}EN.NAM ša\yd NINA{⸢ki⸣} [x x] | |
| 14 | [x] mu-ṭe-e mi-i-[nu] | |
| 15 | ⸢ša⸣ LUGAL be-li₂ i-qab-⸢bu⸣-[u-ni] | |
| 16 | [x] ⸢a⸣ mu nu ni mar {giš}[GIGIR-MEŠ] | |
| 17 | [x x]-ni-tu tu-[x x x x] | |
| b.e. | ||
| 18 | [x x] u ⸢ni⸣ [x x x] | |
| e. | ||
| 1 | [x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ ša\yd {⸢lu₂v⸣}[x x x x x] | |
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