CT 53, 153 (P313568)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 153 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313568 |
| 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 Ad[ad-šumu-uṣur]. [May] Nabû and Marduk bless [the king], my lord! |
| Obverse [4:11] o 55–o 1111 | Concerning the crown prince's visiting the king, my lord, is it because of the earthquake that he has said: "The crown prince should not go outdoors"? |
| Obverse [11:26] o 1212– | It is (already) a fortnight today since the earth quaked, the pertinent ritual has been performed twice, and the king, my lord, knows the relevant interpretation. As they say, what has it to do with this? The visit of [the crown] prince would be [perfectly] all right now. |
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]}⸢IM⸣—[MU—PAB] | |
| 3 | {d}⸢AG⸣ {[d]}AMAR.UTU [a-na LUGAL] | |
| 4 | EN-ia ⸢lik⸣-ru-⸢bu⸣ | |
| 5 | ina UGU e-ra-⸢bi⸣ | |
| 6 | ša DUMU—LUGAL DUMU—LUGAL DUMU—LUGAL | |
| 7 | ina IGI LUGAL be-li₂-ia | |
| 8 | TA@v IGI ri-i-bi | |
| 9 | iq-ṭi-bi-i | |
| 10 | ma-a DUMU—LUGAL DUMU—LUGAL DUMU—LUGAL | |
| 11 | KA₂ la uṣ-ṣa | |
| 12 | 14 ina UD-me an-ni-i | |
| 13 | TA@v be₂-et | |
| 14 | ri-i-bi | |
| r | ||
| 1 | i-ru-bu-u-ni | |
| 2 | 02-šu₂ dul-lu-šu | |
| 3 | e-pi-iš | |
| 4 | u₃ pi-šir₃-šu₂ | |
| 5 | LUGAL be-li₂ u₂-da | |
| 6 | ki-i ša qa-bu-u-ni | |
| 7 | ina UGU an-ni-i | |
| 8 | mi-i-nu qur-bu | |
| 9 | u₂-⸢ma⸣-[a] e-ra-bu | |
| 10 | ⸢ša⸣ [DUMU]—LUGAL [DUMU]—LUGAL [DUMU]—LUGAL | |
| 11 | [a—dan-niš] SIG₅-iq | |
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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