CT 53, 349 (P313763)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 349 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313763 |
| 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/saa13 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:10] o 1o 1–o 1010 | [To the king, my lord: your servant, Urdu-Nabû. The ve]ry [best of he]alth t[o the king, my lord]. May Aššur, [Sin], Šamaš, Bel, Zarpanitu, Nabû, and Tašmetu allow the king, m[y lord], to live 100 years. M[ay they grant the king], my lord, [the satisfaction of ol]d age, extreme old age. |
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 EN-ia] | |
| 2 | [ARAD-ka {1}ARAD—{d}PA] | |
| 3 | [lu] ⸢DI-mu a⸣-[na LUGAL EN-ia] | |
| 4 | [a—dan]-niš a—dan-niš {d}aš-⸢šur⸣ | |
| 5 | {[d}30 {⸢d⸣}UTU {d}EN {d}zar-pa-⸢ni⸣-[tum] | |
| 6 | {[d]}⸢PA⸣ {d}taš-me-tum | |
| 7 | 01 me] ⸢MU⸣.AN.NA-MEŠ a-na LUGAL | |
| 8 | [EN]-⸢ia⸣ lu-bal-li-ṭu | |
| 9 | [ši-bu]-tu lit-tu-tu | |
| 10 | [a-na LUGAL] ⸢EN-ia x⸣+[x x x] | |
Sources & licences
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