CT 53, 237 (P313652)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 237 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313652 |
| 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 [1:3] o 2'2'–o 3'3' | "We shall write ...[......]. It is a town outside the border; [......] will not go [...]. |
| Obverse [3:6] o 4'4'–o 6'6' | "When ...[......], the centres of all his cities [...]. They washed [the fac]es of the people with water [...]. |
| Obverse [6:8] o 7'7'–o 8'8' | [NN will h]ear that this village has been captured, (and) [...] the whole city of Iqbi-Bel will give their word t[o the servant of the k]ing, my lord. |
| Obverse [8:9] o 9'9'–o 9'9' | The town Rahbâ [...] |
| Obverse [9:10] o 10'10'–o 10'10' | [...] one league [from the v]illage as far as [...] |
| Obverse [10:11] o 11'11'–o 11'11' | [NN] the prefect, accompanied by my prefects |
| Obverse [11:12] o 12'12'–o 12'12' | [......] town [...] |
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 x]-⸢bi ta la x x x x⸣ [x x x x] | |
| 2' | [x]-⸢u₂⸣ ma-a ni-šap-par kit-⸢x⸣+[x x x x] | |
| 3' | [x x x]-u URU ša\dm qa-ni ta-hu-me šu-u ⸢x⸣ [x x] | |
| 4' | [x x]+⸢x⸣-mu-e la il-lak ma-a ki-i su-⸢hi⸣-[x x] | |
| 5' | [x x]-⸢ni⸣ ma-a MURUB₄\m-MEŠ\m ša\dm URU-MEŠ\m-ni-šu₂ gab-bu ⸢ma⸣ [x] | |
| 6' | [x x]-⸢ni⸣-MEŠ\m ša\dm UN-MEŠ A-MEŠ in-ta-si\d-ʾu ⸢x⸣+[x] | |
| 7' | [x x i]-⸢ša₂⸣-me-u ki-i {uru}ŠE an-ni\d-u ṣa-bit-u-ni [o] | |
| 8' | [x x x]+⸢x⸣ {uru}iq\d-bi—⸢EN⸣ gab-bu pi-i-šu₂-nu a-[na] | |
| 9' | [x] ⸢LUGAL⸣ be-li₂\d-ia i-du-nu {uru}ra-ah-ba-a [x x] | |
| 10' | [x x] {⸢uru⸣}ŠE 01 KASKAL.GID₂ kaq-qu-ru a-di [x x] | |
| 11' | {1}x x x] {⸢lu₂v⸣}GAR-nu {lu₂v}GAR-nu-MEŠ-ia i-si-šu [o] | |
| 12' | [x x x x x x x x x]+⸢x u⸣ URU ⸢x⸣+[x x x] | |
Sources & licences
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