CT 53, 197 (P313612)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 197 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313612 |
| 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/saa05 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:1] o 1'1'–o 1'1' | in [......] |
| Obverse [1:2] o 2'2'–o 2'2' | Šarru-iqbi [......] |
| Obverse [2:3] o 3'3'–o 3'3' | where there is water [...] |
| Obverse [3:4] o 4'4'–o 4'4' | their rear side [...] |
| Obverse [4:5] o 5'5'–o 5'5' | We waited there. |
| Obverse [5:11] o 6'6'–o 11'11' | On the night of the 4th day an extremely strong wind was bl[owing]. The sto[rm] was so (strong) it tor[e off] all the tents; people got panicked, horses piled together making a heap. |
| Obverse [11:16] o 12'12'–o 16'16' | It started at (the culmination of) the Circle star (Corona) and subsided at (the culmination of) the Triplet star (α Herculis). [All is well]; the king, my lord, [can be at ease.] |
| Reverse [1:2] r 2'2'–r 2'2' | there [......] |
| Reverse [2:3] r 3'3'–r 3'3' | all [......] |
| Reverse [4:5] r 5'5'–r 5'5' | I [......] |
| Reverse [5:6] r 6'6'–r 6'6' | of the son of B[el-iddina ......] |
| Reverse [6:7] r 7'7'–r 7'7' | on the 4th day in [......] |
| Reverse [7:8] r 8'8'–r 8'8' | watch with him [......] |
| Reverse [8:9] r 9'9'–r 9'9' | going [......] |
| Reverse [9:11] r 10'10'–r 11'11' | arrived [......] |
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' | ina [x x x x x x x x] | |
| 2' | {uru}MAN—⸢iq-bi x⸣+[x x x x] | |
| 3' | ša\dm A-MEŠ ina ŠA₃-bi ⸢a⸣-[x x x] | |
| 4' | ku-tu-li\d-šu-nu ša\dm ⸢ina⸣ [x x] | |
| 5' | ina ŠA₃-bi ni\d-ik-te-ti\t-[ir] | |
| 6' | ina MI ša\d UD 04-KAM ša₂-a-⸢ru\d⸣ | |
| 7' | dan\d-nu ša a—dan\d-niš i-⸢zi⸣-[qa] | |
| 8' | {tug₂}maš-kan-MEŠ gab-bu mi-[hu-u] | |
| 9' | i-ba-aš₂-ši u₂-ta\d-⸢si⸣-[hi] | |
| 10' | UN-MEŠ ip-tal-hu a—dan\d-⸢niš⸣ | |
| 11' | {anše}KUR-MEŠ ina ŠA₃\p-bi a-ha-[iš] | |
| 12' | it-ta\p-ad-bu-ku ina ⸢UGU⸣ | |
| 13' | {mul}kip-pi-te u₂\p-⸢sar⸣-[ri] | |
| 14' | ina UGU {mul}taš-ka-[a-ti] | |
| 15' | ⸢it⸣-tu-u₂\m-ah [x x] | |
| 16' | [ŠA₃-bu] ša\d LUGAL EN-[ia lu DUG₃] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | ⸢uk-ta⸣-[x x x x x x] | |
| 2' | ina ŠA₃-bi [x x x x x] | |
| 3' | ⸢gab-bu⸣ [x x x x x] | |
| 4' | ⸢am-x-u-ni⸣ [x x x x x] | |
| 5' | a-na-ku [x x x x x x] | |
| 6' | ša\dm DUMU {1}⸢EN⸣—[SUM-na x x x] | |
| 7' | ina UD 04-KAM ina ⸢x⸣+[x x x x] | |
| 8' | EN.NUN\m i-si-šu₂ [x x x x] | |
| 9' | il-lak-u-ni [x x x x] | |
| 10' | iq-⸢ṭar-bu⸣-u-ni [x x x x] | |
| 11' | i-[x x x]+⸢x 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
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