CT 53, 125 (P313540)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 125 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313540 |
| 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 [0:3] o 1o 1–o 33 | To the kin[g, my lord]: your servant Na'di-ilu. Good health to the king, my lord! |
| Obverse [3:6] o 44–o 66 | As to my army unit about which my lord wrote me: "Your unit should be placed at the head of your ...!" — |
| Obverse [6:10] o 77–o 1010 | now the gods of the [kin]g have taken action: when the king, [my] lo[rd appoin]ted me, [......] to mo[ve on]. |
| Obverse [10:12] o 1111–o 1212 | Otherwise, [......] to Kiṣ[ir-Aššur]. |
| Obverse [12:16] o 1313–o 1616 | As to the wor[k ...] about which the king w[rote me], there is no [...]; the ki[ng ......]. The king, [my lord, can be] gl[ad]. |
| Reverse [2:7] r 5'5'–r 9'9' | Further, they will make the oxen stand in position before all the magnates who are coming. |
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}I—⸢DINGIR⸣ | |
| 3 | lu-u DI-mu a-na LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 4 | ina UGU ki-iṣ-ri-ia ša\y be-li₂ | |
| 5 | iš-pur-an-ni ma-a ⸢ki-ṣar⸣-ka | |
| 6 | ina re-eš ša\yd x-MEŠ-⸢ka⸣ | |
| 7 | lu-u ša₂-ki-ni ⸢u₂-ma⸣-[a] | |
| 8 | DINGIR-MEŠ-ni ša\y ⸢LUGAL⸣ e-⸢tap⸣-šu₂ | |
| 9 | a-ki LUGAL be-[li₂] ⸢ip-qi⸣-[da]-ni-ni | |
| 10 | a-na e-ta-[qi x x x x x] | |
| 11 | u₂\p-la-a a-[x x x x x] | |
| 12 | ina UGU {1}ki-⸢ṣir⸣—[aš-šur x x x] | |
| 13 | ina UGU dul-⸢li⸣ [x x x x x] | |
| 14 | ša\y LUGAL ⸢iš⸣-[pur-an-ni x x] | |
| 15 | la-a-šu₂ ⸢LUGAL⸣ [x x x x x] | |
| 16 | ŠA₃-bi ⸢LUGAL⸣ [EN-ia lu-u DUG₃.GA] | |
| r | ||
| 3' | PAB [x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ | |
| 4' | [x x] ⸢a⸣.a ⸢x⸣ nu ti\t | |
| 5' | u₃ {lu₂vy}⸢GAL⸣-MEŠ mar ša\yd | |
| 6' | i-la-ku-ni-ni | |
| 7' | GUD-MEŠ a-na ma-za-si | |
| 8' | ina pa-na-tu₂-šu₂-nu | |
| 9' | u₂\p-ša₂-za-zu\t | |
Sources & licences
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