CT 53, 211 (P313626)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 211 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313626 |
| 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/saa01 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:4] o 1o 1–o 44 | To the king, [my lord]: your servant [...], the [palace] superintendent. Good health to [the king], my lord! |
| Obverse [4:9] o 55–o 99 | As to the deportees about whom the king my lord wrote to his servant, 160 healthy persons have come to me from the city of Si'immê. I have checked and received them. |
| Obverse [9:18] o 1010– | Just as the king my lord wrote to his servant, saying: "You are to settle them in Marqasa, they will eat bread there" — the king my lord knows that in Guzana they ate stored grain, three seahs per person ... — |
| Reverse [0:7] r 1r 1–r 77 | now, just as the king my lord orders, is one really to give them oil as well? Just as the king my lord orders. |
| Reverse [7:13] r 88–r 1313 | The servants of Rahdi-aba about whom the king my lord wrote to me: Aššur-balti-niše the palace superintendent has come, checked and received 277 persons from me. |
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}⸢x⸣+[x x x x] | |
| 3 | {lu₂}ša₂—⸢IGI⸣—[E₂.GAL] | |
| 4 | lu šul-mu a-⸢na⸣ [LUGAL] ⸢EN-ia⸣ | |
| 5 | ina UGU {lu₂}šag\d-lu-u-te | |
| 6 | ⸢ša\d⸣ LUGAL EN ina UGU {lu₂vy}ARAD-šu₂ | |
| 7 | ⸢iš⸣-pur-an-ni 01 me 60 ZI-MEŠ\m | |
| 8 | ⸢šal⸣-mu-te ša TA@v\m {uru}si-ʾi-me-e | |
| 9 | il-li-ku-ni-ni a-ta-⸢aš₂⸣-ra | |
| 10 | at-ta-har a-ki ša\d LUGAL be-li₂ | |
| 11 | ina UGU {lu₂vy}ARAD-šu₂ iš-pur-an-ni | |
| 12 | ma\p-a {kur}mar-qa-si | |
| 13 | tu-ša₂-aš₂-kan-šu₂-nu ma\p-a ina ŠA₃-bi | |
| 14 | NINDA-MEŠ e-ku-lu LUGAL EN u₂-da | |
| 15 | ina {uru}gu-za-na {še}tab-ku | |
| b.e. | ||
| 16 | 3(ban₂)-a.a e li šab | |
| r | ||
| 1 | e-tak-lu u₂-ma-a | |
| 2 | a-ki ša\p LUGAL be-li₂ | |
| 3 | i-qab-bu\tp-u-ni | |
| 4 | I₃-MEŠ i-ba\t-aš₂-ši-i | |
| 5 | i-da-nu-ni-ša₂-nu-u₂ | |
| 6 | a-ki ša\p LUGAL be-li₂ | |
| 7 | i-qab-bu-u-ni | |
| 8 | {lu₂vy}ARAD-MEŠ-ni ša\d {1}ra-ah-di\d-a-ba | |
| 9 | ša\p LUGAL EN iš-pur-an-ni | |
| 10 | {1}aš-šur—TEŠ₂—UN-MEŠ {lu₂vy}ša₂—IGI—KUR | |
| 11 | ⸢i⸣-tal-ka 02 me 77 | |
| 12 | {lu₂vy}ZI-MEŠ\m e-ta\t-šar | |
| 13 | i-tah\d-ra\p-an-ni | |
Sources & licences
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