CT 53, 225 (P313640)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 225 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313640 |
| 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 [0:3] o 1o 1–o 33 | To the king, my lord: your servant Šarru-emuranni. Good health to the king, my lord! |
| Obverse [3:7] o 44–o 77 | On the 27th day, at dawn, we opened the treasury of metal scraps at the entrance to the house in the palace upon the terrace. |
| Obverse [7:10] o 88–o 1010 | [We] weighed 420 talents of bronze scraps and plac[ed] it in the storehouse [of] the cupbearer. |
| Obverse [10:13] o 1111–o 1313 | We also weighed [x talen]ts of bronze objects [...] |
| Reverse [0:1] r 1'1'–r 1'1' | [......] city, |
| Reverse [1:2] r 2'2'–r 2'2' | [...... of the R]eview [Palace]. |
| Reverse [2:7] r 3'3'–r 7'7' | Alternatively, we can do the (inventory) of the Review Palace on the 29th and go in the remaining days to Dur-Šarruken, to seal those tunics. |
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\p-ka {1}LUGAL—e-mur-an-ni | |
| 3 | lu-u šul-mu a-na LUGAL be-li₂-ia₂ | |
| 4 | UD 27-KAM TA@v\m sa-an-ti\t | |
| 5 | E₂—na-kam-ti\t E₂—na-kam-ti\t ša\d hu-še-e | |
| 6 | ša\dm ina ne₂\d-ri-bi ša\d E₂ ina E₂.GAL | |
| 7 | ša\dm ina UGU tam-le-e ni\d-ip-te-te | |
| 8 | 04 me 20 GU₂\t.UN URUDU hu-še-e | |
| 9 | ⸢ni⸣-ih-ti\t-aṭ ina E₂—ŠU.2 E₂—ŠU.2 | |
| 10 | [ša] {⸢lu₂v⸣}KAŠ.LUL ni-is-sa-⸢kan⸣ | |
| 11 | [x GU₂].⸢UN⸣ u₂\m-de-e URUDU | |
| 12 | [x x x x] ⸢ni⸣-ih-[ti]-⸢aṭ⸣ | |
| 13 | [x x x x x] ⸢ud⸣ [x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [x x x]-⸢an⸣ URU | |
| 2' | [x x E₂.GAL]—⸢ma⸣-šar-ti\t E₂.GAL]—⸢ma⸣-šar-ti\t | |
| 3' | [x x x x] ⸢u₂⸣-la-a | |
| 4' | UD 29-KAM ⸢ša\m⸣ E₂.GAL—ma-šar-ti\t E₂.GAL—ma-šar-ti\t | |
| 5' | ne₂\d-ep-pa-aš₂ ina re-eh-ti\t | |
| 6' | UD-me-ni\d a-na {uru}BAD₃—MAN—GIN | |
| 7' | ni-il\t-lak {tug₂}GADA-MEŠ | |
| 8' | am-ma-ti\t ni\t-kan-na-ak | |
Sources & licences
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