CT 53, 124 (P313539)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 124 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313539 |
| 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 [0:1] 1'1'–1'1' | [...... I said]: "100 |
| Obverse [1:2] 2'2'–2'2' | [......]ed |
| Obverse [2:3] 3'3'–3'3' | [......] placed |
| Obverse [3:4] 4'4'–4'4' | [......] day |
| Obverse [4:5] 5'5'–5'5' | [...... be]ams |
| Obverse [5:6] 6'6'–6'6' | [......] his messenger |
| Bottom [2:3] b.e. 10'10'–b.e. 10'10' | [...] I [...]. |
| Bottom [3:6] b.e. 11'11'– | [By the go]ds of the kin[g, my lord], |
| Reverse [0:1] r 1r 1–r 1r 1 | [......] 1,000 Itu'eans |
| Reverse [1:2] r 22–r 22 | [...... Ṭ]urušpâ |
| Reverse [2:3] r 33–r 33 | [will] call [... to account]. |
| Reverse [3:4] r 44–r 44 | I have sent [my messenger to ...]; |
| Reverse [4:5] r 55–r 55 | [having g]one [...], he [sent] back [...], saying: |
| Reverse [5:6] r 66–r 66 | "The king of Urarṭu has written [to] his [governors]: |
| Reverse [6:8] r 77–r 88 | "Your [troops] should go and [...]." |
| Reverse [8:10] r 99–r 1010 | The Urarṭian [......] |
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) |
|---|---|---|
| 1' | [x x x x x x x] nu-uk\dt 01 me | |
| 2' | [x x x x x x x]-u-ni | |
| 3' | [x x x x x x x]-sa-kan | |
| 4' | [x x x x x x x] ⸢UD⸣-me | |
| 5' | [x x x x x x {giš]}⸢UR₃⸣-MEŠ | |
| 6' | [x x x x x x {lu₂]}⸢A⸣—KIN-šu₂ {lu₂]}⸢A⸣—KIN-šu₂ | |
| 7' | [x x x x x x x] x [x] | |
| b.e. | ||
| 8' | [x x x x x x x x x] | |
| 9' | [x x x x x x] ⸢mu⸣ na ⸢an⸣ | |
| 10' | [x x x x x x] ana-ku | |
| 11' | [x x x x] ⸢DINGIR⸣-MEŠ-ni ša ⸢LUGAL⸣ | |
| 12' | [be-li₂-ia] ⸢lu⸣-u-du-u | |
| r | ||
| 1 | [šum-ma x x x] 01 lim {lu₂}i-tu₂-ʾu | |
| 2 | [x x x x {uru]}⸢ṭu⸣-ru-uš-pa-a | |
| 3 | [x x x x u₂]-ba\t-ʾu-u-ni | |
| 4 | [x x x x x] ⸢a⸣-sap-ra\p | |
| 5 | [x x il]-⸢lik⸣-u-ni u₂-sa-hi-ir | |
| 6 | [x x x ma]-⸢a⸣ LUGAL {kur}URI\dp-a.a | |
| 7 | [x x x x]-⸢te⸣ i-sap-ra | |
| 8 | [ma-a x x]-⸢ku⸣-nu lil-⸢li-ku⸣ | |
| 9 | [x x x x] {kur}URI\d-a.[a x x] | |
| 10 | [x x x x x] ⸢ša⸣ [x x x] | |
Sources & licences
- Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative · CDLI: reuse of catalogue/transliteration data with citation of CDLI; images restricted (not fetched) · Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI), https://cdli.earth/ ; cite CDLI and the P-number
- 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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