CT 53, 232 (P313647)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 232 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313647 |
| 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/saa15 · 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 ki]ng, my lord: [your servant Nabû-belu-ka''in. Good h]ealth to [the king, my lord]! The land of the k[ing my lord is well]. |
| Obverse [3:4] o 44–o 44 | [I have received the (following) new]s of [NN]: |
| Obverse [4:8] o 55–o 88 | "Belšunu, [NN, and ...]ri, servants [of ...], thr[ew ...] against him [and] went down [...] his [...]. |
| Obverse [8:13] o 99–o 1313 | ["He (however) set out ea]rly [and ...ed] with them. When they saw [that] he had heard [...], they got up and [retur]ned to the [Puq]udu |
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\t⸣ be-li₂-⸢ia₂⸣ [ARAD-ka {1}{d}PA—EN—GIN] | |
| 2 | [lu-u] ⸢DI⸣-mu a-na [LUGAL be-li₂-ia₂] | |
| 3 | [DI-mu a]-⸢na⸣ KUR ša ⸢LUGAL⸣ [EN-ia₂] | |
| 4 | [ṭe₃-e]-⸢mu⸣ ša {1}[x x x x] | |
| 5 | [ma-a {1}EN-šu₂-nu {1}⸢x⸣+[x x x] | |
| 6 | {1}x x x]-ri ARAD-MEŠ [x x] | |
| 7 | [x x ina] UGU-hi-šu₂ ik-⸢ta⸣-[ru] | |
| 8 | [x x x]-ki-šu₂ i-tu-ur-du [o] | |
| 9 | [ih-tu]-ru\d-up i-si-šu₂-nu | |
| 10 | [x x x]+⸢x⸣ ki-i e-ma-ru\d-u-ni | |
| 11 | [x x x]+⸢x⸣ iš-ši-mu-u-ni | |
| 12 | [ma-a i]-ba\t-aš₂-ši it-ta-ab-bu | |
| 13 | [i-su-uh]-⸢ru\d⸣ a-na {lu₂v}[pu]-⸢qu-di⸣ | |
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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