CT 53, 159 (P313574)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 159 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313574 |
| Museum no. | BM 099253 |
| 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 [0:5] o 1o 1–o 55 | To the king, my lord: your servant Akkullanu. [Good] health to the king, my lord! May [Na]bû and Marduk bless [the king], my lord! |
| Obverse [5:7] o 66–o 77 | [......] the month Adar (XII) [......] |
| Reverse [3:4] r 4'4'–r 4'4' | [...... c]ome |
| Reverse [4:5] r 5'5'–r 5'5' | [...] and your temples |
| Reverse [5:6] r 6'6'–r 6'6' | [...] eats me up ... |
| Reverse [6:14] r 7'7'– | [The king] should ask the official [o]f the Arrapheans [who] brings the leftovers: "How many oxen and sheep in oil [....] to the Inner City ...[...]?" |
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 EN-ia₂ | |
| 2 | ARAD-ka {1}ak-kul-la-nu | |
| 3 | [lu] šul-mu a-na LUGAL EN-ia₂ | |
| 4 | {[d]}⸢PA⸣ u {d}AMAR.UTU | |
| 5 | [a-na LUGAL] EN-ia₂ lik-ru-bu | |
| 6 | [x x x x x x] {⸢iti⸣}ŠE | |
| 7 | [x x x x x x x]-bu | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [x x x x x]+⸢x⸣+[x x x x] | |
| 2' | [x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ šu₂ ⸢x⸣+[x x x] | |
| 3' | [x x x x] ⸢x x x x⸣ [x x] | |
| 4' | [x x x il]-la-ku-u-ni | |
| 5' | [x x x]-zi u₃ E₂—DINGIR-MEŠ-ka E₂—DINGIR-MEŠ-ka | |
| 6' | [x x x] ⸢ek⸣-kal-an-ni ⸢tu-ra⸣-ma | |
| 7' | [LUGAL] liš-al a-na EN—pi-qit-ti EN—pi-qit-ti | |
| 8' | ⸢ša⸣ {uru}ar-rap-ha-a.a | |
| 9' | [ša] re-ha-a-ti na-aṣ-ṣa-an-ni | |
| r.e. | ||
| 10 | [ma]-a ki ma-ṣi GUD-MEŠ UDU-ME | |
| 11 | ina ⸢ŠA₃⸣ I₃.GIŠ ša tu₂ ⸢x⸣ [x x] | |
| 12 | a-na {uru}ŠA₃—⸢URU x x⸣-MEŠ [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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