CT 53, 158 (P313573)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 158 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313573 |
| Museum no. | BM 099031 |
| 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/saa15 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:2] o 1o 1–o 22 | [To the king, my lord: your servant NN. Good health to] the king, my lord! |
| Obverse [2:13] o 33–o 13'13' | Concern[ing the ... about wh]ich the king, my lord, wrote [to me]: "The houses which are b[eing built] should be coate[d] with [bitumen] as in Ba[qarru]" — the king, my lord, knows that winters (lit. sn[ow] and ice) are very severe her[e]. Burnt bricks do not rem[ain] (whole) but disintegrate. Therefore [we] have built the house[s o]f mud-bricks. |
| Obverse [13:15] o 14'14'–o 15'15' | The depor[tees wh]o came |
| Obverse [15:17] o 16'16'– | [...] to the cit[y ...] |
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-ia₂] | |
| 2 | [ARAD-ka {1}x x x x lu DI-mu] | |
| 3 | [a-na] LUGAL EN-ia₂ ina ⸢UGU⸣ [x x] | |
| 4 | ⸢ša⸣ LUGAL EN iš\d-pur-[an-ni] | |
| 5' | ⸢ma⸣-a E₂-MEŠ\m ša\m e\d-[pu-šu-ni] | |
| 6' | ⸢ki⸣-i ⸢ša⸣ ina {uru}ba-⸢qar⸣-[ri ku-up-ru] | |
| 7' | [ina] UGU-hi-šu₂-nu li-ik-pa-⸢ru⸣-[ni] | |
| 8' | LUGAL EN u₂-da ki-i ku-⸢pu⸣-[u] | |
| 9' | qar-ha-a-te an-na-[ka] | |
| 10' | i-da-ʾi-nu-ni\d la-aš₂-[šu] | |
| 11' | e-bir-tu₂ la ta-ri-[ha] | |
| 12' | ta-ša₂-hu-hu E₂-⸢MEŠ⸣ | |
| 13' | ⸢ša⸣ SIG₄-MEŠ\m ina UGU-hi-šu₂ | |
| 14' | [ni]-ir\d-te-ṣi-bi {lu₂vy}ša₂-ga-⸢lu⸣-[te] | |
| 15' | ⸢ša il⸣-li-ku-ni\d-ni\d | |
| 16' | [x x x x] a-na {⸢uru⸣}[x x] | |
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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