CT 53, 357 (P313771)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 357 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313771 |
| 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/saa10 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:1] o 1'1'–o 1'1' | I [......] took |
| Obverse [1:2] o 2'2'–o 2'2' | [...... the fe]ver seized him |
| Obverse [2:3] o 3'3'–o 3'3' | [n]ow they have performed [...] |
| Obverse [3:4] o 4'4'–o 4'4' | [...] Šamaš-šumu-ukin |
| Obverse [4:5] o 5'5'–o 5'5' | [...] let the king, my lord, write |
| Obverse [5:6] o 6'6'–o 6'6' | [......] they should not pull out |
| Reverse [2:3] r 3'3'–r 3'3' | The gods, [will ...] on account of t[his]. |
| Reverse [3:7] r 4'4'–r 7'7' | [The king], my [lor]d, knows that [...] are [...]; for fear [of...] they [do not] wait (but) do what is [not good] for them. |
| Reverse [7:8] r 8'8'–r 8'8' | [The king, my lord], should give an order [...] |
| Reverse [9:10] r 10'10'–r 10'10' | [..] their flesh |
| Reverse [10:11] r 11'11'–r 11'11' | [...] I, who [am] (but) a dog |
| Reverse [11:13] r 12'12'–r 13'13' | [...] not good |
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-an-ni⸣ i-si-qi | |
| 2' | [x x x x x x hu]-⸢un⸣-ṭu iṣ-ṣa-bat-su | |
| 3' | [x x x an-nu]-rig e-tap-šu₂-ma | |
| 4' | [x x x x x] {1}{d}GIŠ.NU₁₁—MU—GI.NA | |
| 5' | [x x x x] ⸢LUGAL⸣ be-li₂ liš-pu-ra | |
| 6' | [x x x x x] lu la i-⸢ša₂-lu-pu⸣ | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [x x x x x] ⸢i⸣ [x x x x x] | |
| 2' | [x x x x x] ⸢x x x⸣ [x x x] | |
| 3' | [x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ u DINGIR-MEŠ pu-ut ha-[an-ni-i] | |
| 4' | [x x x LUGAL be]-li₂ u₂-da ki-i | |
| 5' | [x x x x x]-nu-ni ina pu-luh-⸢ti⸣ | |
| 6' | [x x x x mi₃]-i-nu ša ina UGU-hi-šu₂-nu | |
| 7' | [x x x x x] i-kat₃-te-ru ep-pu-šu | |
| 8' | [LUGAL be-li₂] ⸢ṭe₃⸣-e-mu liš-ku-un | |
| 9' | [x x x x x]-i-šu₂-nu bu-ur-ba-ni | |
| 10' | [x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ UZU-MEŠ-šu₂-nu | |
| 11' | [x x x x x] a-na-ku ša kal-bu | |
| 12' | [x x x x x x x]-ri la ṭa-ban-ni | |
| 13' | [x x x x x x x x] ⸢šu⸣-u | |
Sources & licences
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