CT 53, 201 (P313616)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 201 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313616 |
| 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 |
|---|---|
| Reverse [0:6] r 1r 1–r 66 | [As to the wo]rk to [be done about which the ki]ng, my lord, wrote [me]: "You shall exec[ute] it by the patte[rn] of the [...] bull colossus [of Du]yanusi" — I am do[ing acco]rdingly. |
| Reverse [6:9] r 77–r 99 | [The w]ork looks [good]; [i]t is being done. The king, [my] lord, [can] be glad. |
| Reverse [9:15] r 1010–r 1515 | The bull colo[ssus of] Duyanusi [is finished] and we have l[oaded] it [on] a boat. [Let them w]ri[te me wh]at the king my lord's [orders are]. |
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' | [x ma]-⸢a⸣-te ⸢ša⸣ [x x x] | |
| 2' | [x x x] {1}U—DU₃\d [x x x x] | |
| 3' | [x x x] ša₂ [x x x x] | |
| 4' | [x x x] ⸢iš⸣ [x x x x] | |
| 5' | [x x x] ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x] | |
| 6' | [x x x] ⸢LUGAL⸣ [x x x] | |
| 7' | [x x x] ku [x x x x] | |
| b.e. | ||
| 11' | [x x x] ⸢ni⸣ [x x x x] | |
| 12' | [x] ⸢ub\d te⸣ hi [x x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1 | [dul]-lu ša\tym in-ne₂-[pa-šu-ni] | |
| 2 | [ša] ⸢LUGAL⸣ EN iš-pur-⸢an⸣-[ni] | |
| 3 | [ma]-⸢a⸣ pi-it-⸢ti⸣ | |
| 4 | [x] {⸢na₄⸣}{d}ALAD.{d}LAMA [ša] | |
| 5 | {1}du]-⸢ia⸣-nu-si te-pa-[aš₂] | |
| 6 | [ina] ⸢pi⸣-it-ti e-[pa-aš₂] | |
| 7 | ⸢dul⸣-lu pa-ni-šu ⸢da⸣-[an-qu] | |
| 8 | ⸢dul⸣-lu-ša₂ in\d-ne₂-[pa-aš₂] | |
| 9 | [ŠA₃]-⸢bu⸣ ša₂ LUGAL\d EN-[ia] | |
| 10 | [lu] DUG₃.GA {na₄}{d}⸢ALAD⸣.{[d}LAMA] | |
| 11 | [ša] {1}du⸣-ia-nu-si [ga-mur] | |
| 12 | [ina] ⸢ŠA₃⸣ {giš}MA₂ nu-[sar-kib-šu₂] | |
| 13 | [mi-nu] ša₂ LUGAL EN [i-qa-bu-ni] | |
| 14 | [liš]-⸢pa⸣-[ru-u-ni] | |
| 15 | [x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ [x x x] | |
Sources & licences
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