CT 53, 396 (P313810)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 396 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313810 |
| 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 [0:3] o 1o 1–o 33 | [To the king, my lord: your servant NN. Good health to] the king, my lord! |
| Obverse [3:10] o 44–o 1010 | A certain [NN ... along with] his [ca]ptives has deserted [to me]. I attended [... th]e Hamranean(s) [... and s]poke [with him thus]: "You are a deserter — [...] you?" |
| Obverse [10:14] o 1111–o 1414 | [He said]: "Why [...]? |
| Reverse [0:2] r 1'1'–r 2'2' | "[......] the men [...] |
| Reverse [2:3] r 3'3'–r 3'3' | "[......] Jupiter [...] |
| Reverse [3:4] r 4'4'–r 4'4' | "[...] among the magnates [...]. |
| Reverse [4:6] r 5'5'–r 6'6' | "[I want to tel]l it in the [king's] presence." |
| Reverse [6:9] r 7'7'–r 9'9' | Now then he is on his way to [the king], my [lo]rd. [The king, my lord, should] question 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 | [a-na LUGAL be-li₂-ia] | |
| 2 | [ARAD-ka {1}x x x x] | |
| 3 | [lu DI-mu a-na] ⸢LUGAL⸣ EN-ia | |
| 4 | {1}x x x x x] šu-u₂ | |
| 5 | [a-di {lu₂}hu]-ub-te-šu₂\d | |
| 6 | [ina pa-ni-ia] i-tuq\d-ta | |
| 7 | [x x x x] {⸢kur⸣}ha-am-ra-na-a.a | |
| 8 | [x x x x] ⸢ah⸣-ti\t-ri-di | |
| 9 | [is-si-šu₂ ad]-du-bu-ub\m | |
| 10 | [mu-uk] {⸢lu₂⸣}ma-aq\t-tu₂ at-ta | |
| 11 | [x x x]-sa-na-ka | |
| 12 | [x x x] ⸢ma⸣-a UGU mi-ni | |
| 13 | [x x x x x] ⸢ni\d⸣ | |
| 14 | [x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [x x x x x x] {lu₂v}ERIM-MEŠ | |
| 2' | [x x x x]-ni\d-ni\d | |
| 3' | [x x x] {⸢mul⸣}SAG.ME.GAR | |
| 4' | [x x x]-⸢ni⸣ ma-a | |
| 5' | [x x x x] ina ŠA₃ {lu₂}GAL-MEŠ | |
| 6' | [x x x x] ma-a ina IGI | |
| 7' | [LUGAL la-aq]-⸢bi⸣ an-nu-rig\t | |
| 8' | [ina UGU LUGAL] ⸢EN⸣-ia i-tal-ka | |
| 9' | [LUGAL be-li₂] ⸢liš⸣-al-šu₂ | |
Sources & licences
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