CT 53, 152 (P313567)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 152 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313567 |
| 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/saa10 · 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: your servant] Marduk-šakin-šumi. [Good health] to the king, my lord! [May Nabû and] Marduk [bles]s the king, my lord! |
| Obverse [4:14] o 55–o 1414 | Concerning what the king, my lord, [wrote] to me: "Is this the [tru]th?" — may Bel and Nabû, [your gods], call to account [the one] who is [not honest] with the king, his lord! [...] recently [......; I] was confused. I did not see his [...], (but) perhaps the king, my lord, saw. What can I say? |
| Obverse [14:19] o 1515– | In any case, I guarantee under oath: it shall be a great success. |
| Reverse [0:6] r 1r 1–r 66 | If the king, my lord, had not attained his desire and i[f] he had not gone safely and happily where he had to go! Why (is the king) [like th]is? |
| Reverse [6:13] r 77–r 1313 | [When] the king, my lord, [former]ly two or three times asked his servant about malformed births or anything at all, did I conceal (anything), be it good or bad, from the king, my lord? |
| Reverse [13:14] r 1414–r 1414 | After me [...] |
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}{d]}AMAR.UTU—GAR—⸢MU⸣ | |
| 3 | [lu-u DI-mu] ⸢a⸣-na LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 4 | {[d}PA u] {⸢d⸣}AMAR.UTU a-na LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 5 | [lik-ru]-⸢bu⸣ ina ⸢UGU⸣ ša LUGAL be-li₂ | |
| 6 | [iš-pur]-⸢an⸣-ni ⸢ma⸣-a an-ni-tu-u ši-i | |
| 7 | [ket]-⸢tu⸣ ša TA@v LUGAL EN-šu₂ | |
| 8 | [la ke-nu-u]-ni {d}EN u {d}PA | |
| 9 | [DINGIR-MEŠ-ka ina] ŠU.2-šu₂ lu-ba-ʾi-iu-u | |
| 10 | [x x x is]-su ha-ra-am-me | |
| 11 | [x x x ad]-da-la-ah | |
| 12 | [x x x x]+⸢x⸣-ti-šu₂ la a-mur | |
| 13 | is—⸢su-ri LUGAL⸣ be-li₂ e-ta-mar | |
| 14 | ana-ku mi₃-i-nu la-aq-bi | |
| 15 | [ket]-tu ana-ku pu-tu-hu | |
| 16 | [a-na-aš₂]-ši šum-ma la ⸢du⸣-un-qu | |
| 17 | ⸢ša⸣ a—dan-niš | |
| 18 | šu-tu-u-ni | |
| r | ||
| 1 | ⸢šum⸣-ma LUGAL be-li₂ | |
| 2 | ṣa-hi-it-tu-šu₂ | |
| 3 | la ik-šu-ud u₃ ⸢šum⸣-[ma] | |
| 4 | E₂ hu-ul-šu-u-ni | |
| 5 | ina DI-me u DUG₃-ub ŠA₃-bi | |
| 6 | ⸢la il⸣-lik a-ta-a | |
| 7 | [ki-i an-ni]-im-ma 02-šu₂ 03-šu₂ | |
| 8 | [E₂ lu-u ša₂] iz-bi lu-u ša₂ me-me-ni | |
| 9 | [ina pa-ni-ti]-im-ma LUGAL be-li₂ | |
| 10 | [a-na] ⸢ARAD⸣-šu₂ iš-al-u-ni | |
| 11 | [lu-u] ⸢du⸣-un-qu lu-u lum-nu | |
| 12 | TA@v IGI LUGAL-e EN-ia | |
| 13 | up-ta-az-zi-ir | |
| 14 | [x x x]+⸢x i—da⸣-tu-u-a i—da⸣-tu-u-a | |
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)
- electronic Babylonian Library (eBL), LMU Munich · MIT (eBL Zenodo dataset); platform terms unverified · electronic Babylonian Library (eBL), LMU Munich, https://www.ebl.lmu.de/ ; Zenodo dataset (MIT)
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