CT 53, 161 (P313576)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 161 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313576 |
| 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/saa15 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:3] o 1o 1–o 33 | [To the king], my [lo]rd: [your servant Nabû]-remanni. [Good health to] the king, my lord! |
| Obverse [3:6] o 44–o 66 | [Concerning the ...s about whom] the king, my lord, [wrote to me: "W]hy have you not sent [...] until now?" |
| Obverse [7:10] o 88–o 1010 | [...] said [to the gove]rnor: "Make his [...]s enter [...], and make the [depor]tees enter [...]!" |
| Obverse [10:11] o 1111–o 1111 | [......] the h[i]red men |
| Obverse [11:12] o 1212–o 1212 | [...... the depor]tees |
| Reverse [0:1] r 1'1'–r 1'1' | [...... I shall] check it out |
| Reverse [1:3] r 2'2'–r 3'3' | [......] If it is not intact, did my [offi]cial d[o it]? |
| Reverse [3:9] r 4'4'–r 9'9' | [They squan]der [the ...], and the king, [my lord, blames] me! May the king, my lord, write [to Nabû-belu]-ka''in that they should not squander [...], and let [...] my official [sup]ervise his [hir]ed men. |
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}{d}PA]—rem₂-an-ni | |
| 3 | [lu DI-mu a-na] LUGAL be-li₂-ia₂ | |
| 4 | [ina UGU x x ša] LUGAL EN-li\d | |
| 5 | [iš-pur-an-ni ma a]-ta-a a-du-na\t-kan-an-ni | |
| 6 | [x x x x]+⸢x-tu₂ la⸣ tu-še-bi-li | |
| 7 | [x x x x x x x x x]-za-za | |
| 8 | [x x x {lu₂vy}EN].NAM iq-ṭi₂-bi | |
| 9 | [ma-a x x x]-MEŠ-⸢šu₂⸣ še-⸢ri⸣-ba-a | |
| 10 | [x x x ga]-⸢le⸣-e-te še-ri-ba | |
| 11 | [x x x x x] {⸢lu₂vy}ag⸣-ru-te | |
| 12 | [x x x x x x x x ga]-⸢le⸣-e-te | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [x x x x lu]-sa-ni\d-qi₂ | |
| 2' | [x x x x x] šum₂\p-mu la šal-lim | |
| 3' | [x x x {lu₂vy}EN]—⸢pi⸣-qit-te-ia {lu₂vy}EN]—⸢pi⸣-qit-te-ia e-pu\t-[uš] | |
| 4' | [x x x u₂-ba]-du-du a.a-ši LUGAL | |
| 5' | [x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ LUGAL EN-li₂ | |
| 6' | [a-na {1}{d}PA—EN]—GIN-⸢in⸣ liš\d-pu-ra | |
| 7' | [x x x x]-⸢pa⸣-ru\d ⸢lu la u₂⸣-ba-du-du | |
| 8' | [x x x x]+⸢x⸣ {lu₂vy}EN—pi-qit-te-ia {lu₂vy}EN—pi-qit-te-ia | |
| 9' | [ina IGI {lu₂vy}ag]-⸢ru⸣-te-šu₂ li-zi-zi | |
Sources & licences
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