CT 53, 768 (P314178)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 768 |
|---|---|
| ID | P314178 |
| 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 [0:8] o 1o 1–o 88 | [To the king, my lord: your servant] Nabû-ahhe-šallim. [Good heal]th [to the king], my lord! [May Nabû and Mar]duk [very grea]tly [bless the king], my lord. |
| Reverse [1:6] r 2'2'–r 6'6' | [The moment] is good [for ent]ering [into the presence of the king], my [lord]. [If the king], my lord, [says, let] him enter, and may he (= the king) see [him prosper]! |
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}{d]}PA—PAB-MEŠ—⸢DI⸣ | |
| 3 | [lu-u DI]-⸢mu⸣ | |
| 4 | [a-na LUGAL] EN-ia | |
| 5 | {[d}PA {d]}⸢AMAR⸣.UTU | |
| 6 | [a-na LUGAL] ⸢EN⸣-ia | |
| 7 | [a—dan-niš a—dan]-niš | |
| 8 | [lik-ru-bu] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ [x] | |
| 2' | [x x x x]+⸢x⸣ DUG₃.GA | |
| 3' | [a-na e]-⸢ra⸣-bi | |
| 4' | [ina IGI LUGAL] ⸢EN⸣-ia | |
| 5' | [šum-ma LUGAL] be-li₂ | |
| 6' | [i-qab-bi le]-e-ru-ub | |
| 7' | [ne₂-ma]-⸢al-šu₂⸣ le-e-mur | |
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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