CT 53, 129 (P313544)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
Open in the reader & map →See it among all tablets
| Designation | CT 53, 129 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313544 |
| Museum no. | BM 098997 |
| 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/saa13 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:4] o 1o 1–o 44 | [To the king, my lord]: yo[ur servant, Dadî]. Good heal[th to the king, my lord]. May Nabû and [Mardu]k ble[ss] the [king, my lord]. |
| Obverse [4:15] o 55– | Your father ma[de] a decision. The previous year, the king [...]ed 10,000 sheep [...]. Now then, it's been four year[s s]ince they would give (any). The servants o[f the king] have dispersed [the sheep. ....] |
| Bottom [0:7] b.e. 15b.e. 15– | The king, my lord, [commanded]: "[The ...] shall provide these sheep [...]," (but) the [...] are assigning [...] to the prefect and giving [the sheep]. |
| Reverse [4:12] r 55–r 1212 | Now (it is) the second year (that) Raṣappa and Arzuhina refuse to give the tribute sheep. [I have] three times [written] to the king, my lord [......]. |
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 be-li₂-ia] | |
| 2 | [ARAD]-⸢ka⸣ {1}da-di-i] | |
| 3 | ⸢lu šul⸣-[mu a-na LUGAL EN-ia] | |
| 4 | {d}AG {[d}AMAR].⸢UTU⸣ a-[na LUGAL EN-ia] | |
| 5 | lik-ru-[bu] ⸢de⸣-e-[nu] | |
| 6 | AD-ka [ip]-ta-[ra-as] | |
| 7 | 10 lim UDU-MEŠ [x]+⸢x⸣ [x x] | |
| 8 | MU.AN.NA ⸢pa⸣-[ni-tu] | |
| 9 | LUGAL u₂-[x x x x] | |
| 10 | u₂-ma-a ⸢an⸣-[nu]-⸢rig⸣ | |
| 11 | 04 MU.AN.NA-[MEŠ TA] ⸢E₂⸣ | |
| 12 | i-da-⸢nu⸣-[u₂-ni] | |
| 13 | ARAD-MEŠ ⸢ša⸣ [LUGAL UDU-MEŠ] | |
| 14 | ip-ta-⸢ṣu⸣ [x x x] | |
| b.e. | ||
| 15 | LUGAL be-⸢li⸣ [iq-ṭi-bi] | |
| 16 | ma-a UDU-MEŠ [x x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1 | an-nu-ti [x x x] | |
| 2 | i-dan{an} {lu₂v}[x x x] | |
| 3 | ina UGU {lu₂v}ša₂-⸢ak⸣-[ni x x] | |
| 4 | u₂-su-ku [x x x] | |
| 5 | i-du-nu an-nu-rig | |
| 6 | ša-ni-tu MU.AN.NA | |
| 7 | {uru}ra-ṣa-ap-pa | |
| 8 | {uru}ar-zu-hi-na | |
| 9 | UDU-MEŠ ma-da-ti la | |
| 10 | i-ma-gur₂ la i-du-[nu] | |
| 11 | 03-šu₂ a-na ⸢LUGAL⸣ EN-⸢ia⸣ | |
| 12 | [x x x]+⸢x x⸣+[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)
Cite the original edition and translator. Page generated by Unread Atlas from the public corpus export of 2026-10-11.