CT 53, 136 (P313551)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 136 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313551 |
| 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/saa01 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:6] o 1o 1–o 66 | [To ..., to] ..[..., to] ..[..., to] Reman[ni-...] and to [...]: a royal order of [great urgency]. |
| Obverse [6:13] o 77– | Get together your prefects plus the h[orses] of your cavalry collection points immediately! Whoever is late will be impaled in the middle of his house, |
| Reverse [0:3] r 1r 1–r 33 | and who(ever) changes the [... of] the city will also be impaled in the middle of his house, and his sons and daughters will be slaughtered by his (own) order. |
| Reverse [3:10] r 44–r 1010 | Don't delay; leave your business and come straight away! |
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 | [x x x x x x x] | |
| 2 | [a-na {1}⸢x⸣-[x x x x] | |
| 3 | [a-na {1}{d}[x x x x] | |
| 4 | [a-na {1}rem₂-⸢a⸣-[ni—{d}x] | |
| 5 | ⸢a-na\t⸣ {1}⸢ka⸣-[x x x] | |
| 6 | a-bat LUGAL\d ⸢ša⸣ [x x x] | |
| 7 | {lu₂vy}GAR-nu-ku-nu a-⸢du KUR⸣.[RA]-⸢MEŠ⸣ | |
| 8 | ša\ydm pi-ri BAD-HAL-ku-nu | |
| 9 | ki-ir\d-ka-ni\d ar₂\d-hiš | |
| 10 | man-nu ša₂ i-mar-ku-ni | |
| 11 | a-na\t za-qi₂-pi qa\d-ab-si | |
| 12 | ⸢E₂⸣-šu i-ša₂-ku-⸢nu⸣ | |
| r | ||
| 1 | ša\y a-na ⸢x⸣+[x x x]+⸢x⸣ | |
| 2 | [ša] ⸢URU u₂\m-na\t-ka-ar₂-u⸣-ni | |
| 3 | ⸢a-na ša₂⸣-šu₂-ma a-na za-qi₂-pi | |
| 4 | qa-[ab]-si E₂-šu | |
| 5 | i-ša₂-kun-šu₂ DUMU-MEŠ\m-šu₂ | |
| 6 | DUMU.MI₂-MEŠ\m-šu₂ ina pi-i-šu | |
| 7 | u₂\m-ṭa-bu-hu | |
| 8 | la ta-ka-la | |
| 9 | ⸢dul-la⸣-ku-nu ra-me-a | |
| 10 | ⸢et⸣-qa\d al-ka-ni\d | |
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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