CT 53, 140 (P313555)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 140 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313555 |
| 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/saa21 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:2] o 1o 1–o 22 | To Assurbani[pal, king of Assyria]: your brother, La[kû]. Good health to [my brother]! |
| Obverse [2:6] o 33–o 66 | [I have heard] that as [...] my brother [......] |
| Reverse [0:1] r 1'1'–r 1'1' | they say [......] |
| Reverse [1:2] r 2'2'–r 2'2' | [is] we[ll ......] |
| Reverse [2:3] r 3'3'–r 3'3' | May [...... be we]ll. |
| Reverse [3:4] r 4'4'–r 4'4' | Now [then] let me hear that my brother is [we]ll! |
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 {1}aš-šur—DU₃—[A LUGAL KUR—aš-šur{ki]} | |
| 2 | ŠEŠ-ka {1}la-[ku-u₂ x x] | |
| 3 | lu DI-mu a-na [ŠEŠ-ia a-se-me] | |
| 4 | ma-a a-ki ša [x x x x x] | |
| 5 | ŠEŠ-u₂-⸢a⸣ [x x x x x x] | |
| 6 | ma-a [x x x x x x x x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | ma-[x x x x x x x x] | |
| 2' | DI-[mu a-na x x x x x] | |
| 3' | lu DI-[mu a-na x x x x x] | |
| 4' | u₂-ma-⸢a⸣ [an-nu-rig DI]-⸢mu⸣ | |
| 5' | ša PAB-ia ⸢la⸣-aš₂-me | |
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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