CT 53, 115 (P313530)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 115 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313530 |
| 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/saa10 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:6] o 1o 1–o 66 | To the king, our lord: your servants Balasî and Nabû-ahhe-eriba. Good health to the king, our lord! May Nabû and Marduk bl[ess the king], our lord! |
| Obverse [6:14] o 77–o 1414 | [Concerning] the sta[r ... about which the king, our lord, wrote] to us, it is indeed a sta[r which] does not [...] and appear with them. [The] writing-board of Mul Apin says as follows: |
| Obverse [14:20] o 1515– | "On [the 1]st of Nisan (I), Aries appea[rs]; [on] the 20th of Nisan (I), Auriga appears." |
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-ni | |
| 2 | ARAD-MEŠ-ka {1}ba-la-si-i | |
| 3 | {1}{d}PA—PAB-MEŠ—SU | |
| 4 | lu šul-mu a-na LUGAL | |
| 5 | EN-ni | |
| 6 | {d}PA {d}AMAR.UTU a-na [LUGAL] | |
| 7 | EN-ni ⸢lik⸣-[ru-bu ina UGU] | |
| 8 | ⸢MUL⸣ [x x ša LUGAL EN-ni] | |
| 9 | [iš-pur]-an-na-ši-⸢ni⸣ | |
| 10 | [i]-⸢ba⸣-aš₂-ši ka-⸢ku⸣-[bu] | |
| 11 | [ša] ⸢is⸣-se-šu₂-nu la i-[rab-bu-ni] | |
| 12 | ⸢la⸣ in-na-mar-u-ni | |
| 13 | {[giš]}DA {mul}APIN | |
| 14 | [ki]-i an-ni-i-e | |
| 15 | [iq]-⸢ṭi⸣-bi ma-a ina {iti}BARAG | |
| b.e. | ||
| 16 | [UD 01-⸢KAM₂\t⸣ {mul}HUN.GA₂ IGI-⸢mar⸣ | |
| 17 | [ina {iti]}BARAG UD 20-KAM₂\t | |
| 18 | {[mul]}⸢ZUBI⸣ IGI-mar | |
Sources & licences
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- 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) · ORACC project editions, https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ ; cite the individual project (see texts.extra_json.project)
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