CT 53, 306 (P313721)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 306 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313721 |
| 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 [3:4] o 4'4'–o 4'4' | [...... ha]ve become hostile |
| Obverse [4:5] o 5'5'–o 5'5' | [...... R]apâ-il |
| Obverse [7:12] o 8'8'–o 12'12' | [...... ha]ve become hostile |
| Reverse [0:4] r 1r 1–r 44 | [...] they brought [bef]ore me with their letter a messenger [who carried the lett]er of the king of Elam. |
| Reverse [4:9] r 55–r 99 | [As to what the king, m]y [lord], wrote to me: "Bel-iqb[i ......] the Babylonian should be [in D]er" — I [we]nt and told it to them, [but they said to me]: "He should not come! |
| Reverse [9:10] r 1010–r 1010 | [... will wri]te to him |
| Reverse [10:11] r 1111–r 1111 | [...] "I shall go |
| Reverse [11:12] r 1212–r 1212 | [......] I have been sent |
| Reverse [12:13] r 1313–r 1313 | [...... No]w then |
| Reverse [13:14] r 1414–r 1414 | [......] with me |
| Reverse [14:15] r 1515–r 1515 | [...... Now th]en |
| Reverse [15:16] r 1616–r 1616 | [...... is comin]g |
| Reverse [16:17] r 1717–r 1717 | [...... the kin]g, my lord |
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 x x x]-⸢x⸣-nu | |
| 2' | [x x x x x x x x x] ⸢i⸣ | |
| 3' | [x x x x x x x x]-nu | |
| 4' | [x x x x x x x it]-tak-ru | |
| 5' | [x x x x x x x {1}⸢ra-pa-a⸣—DINGIR | |
| 6' | [x x x x x x x x x x] ⸢qi⸣ | |
| 7' | [x x x x x x x x x] kur | |
| 8' | [x x x x x x x x it]-tak-ru | |
| 9' | [x x x x x x x x x] | |
| 10' | [x x x x x x x x x]-ši | |
| 11' | [x x x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ | |
| 12' | [x x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ | |
| r | ||
| 1 | [x x x x] {lu₂v}A—šip-ri {lu₂v}A—šip-ri | |
| 2 | [ša e-gir₂]-tu₂ ša LUGAL {kur}NIM.MA{[ki]} | |
| 3 | [x x x] TA\m e-gir₂-ti\t-šu-⸢nu⸣ | |
| 4 | [ina pa]-ni-ia na-aṣ\tdp-ṣu-ni | |
| 5 | [ša LUGAL be]-⸢li₂⸣ iš-pur-an-ni ma-a {1}EN—iq-⸢bi⸣ | |
| 6 | [x x x] {⸢lu₂v⸣}DUMU—KA₂\d.DINGIR.RA{ki} {⸢lu₂v⸣}DUMU—KA₂\d.DINGIR.RA{ki} | |
| 7 | [ina ŠA₃ {uru]}⸢de⸣-ri-ma lu šu-u₂\m | |
| 8 | [x x x]-la-ka\d aq-ti\t-ba-aš₂-⸢šu₂⸣-nu | |
| 9 | [iq-ti-bu-ni] ma-a lu la il\y-la-⸢ka\d⸣ | |
| 10 | [x x x x]-par-aš₂-šu-un-ni | |
| 11 | [x x x x]+⸢x⸣ ma-a al\t-lak\d | |
| 12 | [x x x x x] ⸢šap⸣-ra-ku-u-ni | |
| 13 | [x x x x u₂\m]-⸢ma⸣-a an-nu-rig\t | |
| 14 | [x x x x x x x] is-se-e-a | |
| 15 | [x x x x x x an-nu]-⸢rig⸣ | |
| 16 | [x x x x x x x x x]-⸢ka⸣ | |
| 17 | [x x x x x x x x x] ⸢LUGAL⸣ be-li₂-ia | |
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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