CT 53, 131 (P313546)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 131 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313546 |
| 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 king, my lord: your servant Š[ulmu-be]li. [Good] heal[th to the king], my [lo]rd! |
| Obverse [3:12] o 44–o 1212 | As regards [NN], the 'third [man' ...] of [NN] son of [NN], about whom the k[ing, my lord], wro[te me]: "Sum[mon him; ...] with [...]" |
| Reverse [0:6] r 1r 1–r 66 | [They told m]e: "The chariot owner [who go]es [wi]th him will summ[on him]; he has gone to Arbela." |
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\t LUGAL EN-ia₂ | |
| 2 | ARAD\p-ka {1}⸢DI⸣-[mu]—⸢EN⸣ | |
| 3 | lu-u ⸢DI⸣-[mu a-na LUGAL] ⸢EN⸣-ia₂ | |
| 4 | UGU {1}[x x x x] | |
| 5 | {lu₂vy}03.[U₅ x x x] | |
| 6 | ša\ydm {1}x x x x] | |
| 7 | DUMU [x x x x] | |
| 8 | ša\ydm ⸢LUGAL⸣ [be-li₂] | |
| 9 | iš-⸢pur⸣-[an-ni ma-a] | |
| 10 | re-⸢su⸣ [i-ši] | |
| 11 | ma-a ⸢x⸣+[x x x x] | |
| 12 | ⸢TA x⸣+[x x x x] | |
| 13 | ⸢i-x⸣+[x x x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1 | [iq-ṭi₂-bu]-⸢ni⸣ ma-a EN—{giš}⸢GIGIR⸣ EN—{giš}⸢GIGIR⸣ | |
| 2 | [ša i]-si-šu₂ | |
| 3 | [i]-⸢lu-ku⸣-u-ni | |
| 4 | [x] ⸢x⸣ i-na\t-ši | |
| 5 | [ma] ina {uru}⸢arba-il₃⸣ | |
| 6 | ⸢i-ta⸣-lak | |
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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