CT 53, 137 (P313552)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 137 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313552 |
| 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 [NN]. Go[od health to the king, my lord]! |
| Obverse [5:6] o 66–o 66 | with me [......] |
| Obverse [6:8] o 77–o 88 | gave me the oxen and sheep [......] |
| Obverse [8:9] o 99–o 99 | neither wine [nor ......] |
| Obverse [9:10] o 1010–o 1010 | from [......] |
| Obverse [10:11] o 1111–o 1111 | which [......] |
| Obverse [11:12] o 1212–o 1212 | oxen [......] |
| Bottom [0:1] b.e. 16b.e. 16–b.e. 16b.e. 16 | t[o ......] |
| Bottom [1:3] b.e. 1717– | my lord [......]. |
| Reverse [0:5] r 1r 1–r 55 | The king, my lord, sh[ould] posthaste [send] a [......]; by what means can I [...]? The one-ye[ar-old] mares that I have [......]. |
| Reverse [5:10] r 66–r 1010 | Now, an offi[cial of mine] is leaving with a scribe; let them enter into the presence of the king, my lord, and let the king, my lord, ask them what I/he/they left in the fort. |
| Reverse [10:12] r 1111–r 1212 | May the king, my lord, not say: "I appointed him, and he did not achieve (anything)!" |
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}x x x x x] | |
| 3 | ⸢lu⸣ [šul-mu a-na LUGAL EN-ia] | |
| 4 | ⸢x⸣+[x]-⸢MEŠ\m⸣ a-⸢x⸣+[x x x x x] | |
| 5 | ⸢x⸣+[x]+⸢x⸣ da [x x x x x] | |
| 6 | ⸢i⸣-si-ia [x x x x x] | |
| 7 | GUD-MEŠ UDU-MEŠ [x x x x]-ni | |
| 8 | it-tan-na [x x x x x] aš | |
| 9 | la-a {giš}GEŠTIN [x x x x x] | |
| 10 | TA@v\m ŠA₃ ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x] | |
| 11 | ša\d ⸢e-x⸣+[x x x x x x x] | |
| 12 | GUD-MEŠ [x x x x x x x] | |
| 13 | ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x x x x] | |
| 14 | [x x x x x x x x x] | |
| 15 | [x x x x x x x x x] | |
| b.e. | ||
| 16 | a-⸢na⸣ [x x x x x] | |
| 17 | be-⸢li₂⸣ [x x x x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1 | LUGAL EN {lu₂}⸢x⸣+[x x x x] | |
| 2 | a-na\t ka-li-e ⸢x⸣+[x x x] | |
| 3 | ina ŠA₃ mi-i-ni lu-šal-[x x] | |
| 4 | {anšey}SAL.HUB₂-MEŠ\m DUMU MU.⸢AN⸣.[NA] | |
| 5 | ša ina pa-ni\d-ia u₂-⸢x⸣+[x x x] | |
| 6 | an-nu-rig {lu₂}EN—⸢pi⸣-[qit-ti-ia] {lu₂}EN—⸢pi⸣-[qit-ti-ia] | |
| 7 | {lu₂}A.BA i-si-šu₂\d il-⸢lak⸣ | |
| 8 | ina pa-an LUGAL\d EN-ia le-ru-bu\t | |
| 9 | LUGAL EN liš\d-al-šu₂-nu mi-i-nu | |
| 10 | ina {uru}bir-te u₂-ra\p-mu-u-ni\d | |
| 11 | LUGAL EN lu-u la i-qab-bi | |
| 12 | ma-a ap-ti\d-qi\t-su la e-pu\tp-uš | |
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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