CT 53, 266 (P313681)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 266 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313681 |
| 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/saa16 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:1] o 1'1'–o 1'1' | [......] the king, [my] lo[rd, ...] |
| Obverse [1:2] o 2'2'–o 2'2' | [... I sai]d to him, "[...] |
| Obverse [2:3] o 3'3'–o 3'3' | [...] I said, "Soon [...] |
| Obverse [3:4] o 4'4'–o 4'4' | [...] we will [...] with each other." |
| Obverse [4:5] o 5'5'–o 5'5' | [PN ... t]o Nabû-ahhe-šallim, th[e ...], |
| Obverse [5:6] o 6'6'–o 6'6' | [...], saying: "[...] a lamb [...] |
| Obverse [6:7] o 7'7'–o 7'7' | [...] "I am a servant of the king; [if] |
| Obverse [7:8] o 8'8'–o 8'8' | [it] is acceptable [to the king, let] Nabu-taklak, the haruspex [...]." |
| Obverse [8:9] o 9'9'–o 9'9' | [...] they sl[aughtered] lambs [......] |
| Obverse [9:10] o 10'10'–o 10'10' | [...] I raged at h[im], |
| Obverse [10:13] o 11'11'–o 13'13' | [bou]nd [...], and [made] a treaty w[ith him] |
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 x x x x x] LUGAL ⸢EN⸣-[ia₂ x x x] | |
| 2' | [x x x x aq-ṭi]-⸢ba⸣-šu₂ nu-uk [x x x] | |
| 3' | [x x x x x] ⸢nu⸣-uk ba-a-si [x x x] | |
| 4' | [x x x x x]+⸢x⸣-ṣi TA@v a-he-iš ni-[x x x] | |
| 5' | [x x x a]-na {1}{d}PA—PAB-MEŠ—šal-lim {⸢lu₂v⸣}[x x x] | |
| 6' | [x x x]-li ma-a {udu}pu-ha-du ⸢hu⸣-[x x x] | |
| 7' | [x x x] ARAD ša LUGAL a-na-ku ma-a [šum₂-ma ina pa-an] | |
| 8' | [LUGAL ma]-hi-ir {1}{d}PA—tak-lak {lu₂v}HAL [x x x] | |
| 9' | [x x] {⸢udu⸣}pu-ha-da-ni i-tak-⸢su⸣ [x x x] | |
| 10' | [x x x a]-⸢na⸣-ku ar-tu-uʾ-ba-šu₂ [x x x] | |
| 11' | [ar-ta]-ka-as u₃ a-de-e ⸢is⸣-[se-e-šu₂ x x] | |
| 12' | [x x x x x]+⸢x ni u x⸣ du an [x x x] | |
| 13' | [x x x x x x x x x] ⸢x⸣+[x x x x] | |
Sources & licences
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