CT 53, 184 (P313599)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 184 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313599 |
| 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 [0:5] o 1o 1–o 55 | [To the king, my lord: your servant Adad-šumu-uṣur. Good health to the king, my lord! May Nabû and Marduk bl]ess the k[ing, my lord]! |
| Obverse [5:10] o 66–o 1010 | As to what the king, my lord, wrote to me: "Concerning the time of the 'watch of Asalluhi,' about which you wrote to me, I have become afraid [of it]" |
| Reverse [1:2] r 2'2'–r 2'2' | [... Aššur-mukin-p]aleya |
| Reverse [2:3] r 3'3'–r 3'3' | [... Sin-per'u-u]kin |
| Reverse [3:4] r 4'4'–r 4'4' | [... k]ept |
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 | [lu DI-mu a-na LUGAL EN-ia] | |
| 4 | {[d}AG {d}AMAR.UTU] a-na ⸢LUGAL⸣ [EN-ia] | |
| 5 | [lik]-ru-bu | |
| 6 | ša LUGAL be-li₂ iš-pur-an-ni | |
| 7 | ma-a ina UGU a-da-an-ni | |
| 8 | EN.NUN {d}⸢ASAR⸣.LU₂~v.HI | |
| 9 | [ša] ⸢taš⸣-pur-an-ni | |
| 10 | [x x x x x] ⸢ap⸣-ta-lah₃ | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ | |
| 2' | [x {1}aš-šur—GIN]—⸢BALA⸣-MEŠ-a | |
| 3' | [x {1}30—NUNUZ]—⸢GIN⸣-in | |
| 4' | [x x x x u₂]-kil-lu-ni | |
| 5' | [x x x 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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