CT 53, 834 (P314243)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 834 |
|---|---|
| ID | P314243 |
| 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/saa01 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:6] 1'1'–6'6' | ...] stay [in ......]. Now he has do[ne the work (incumbent) up]on you plus the work ass[ignment that was ... to] your [...]; [your servants tra]ded [the work ass]ignment with 21 [...] and shirked doing the work. |
| Obverse [6:21] 7'7'– | [You wrote me] that in addition to the 500 [logs of ...] and the 500 of [..., another ...] have been piled up on the river bank. [That's exactly] why the governor of Til-Barsip did [...]! I (gave the order): "These [should g]o to [...] Aššur-šarru-uṣur plus the [...] who are with him, and [...] the l[ogs into ...] of 40 (pieces) each." To no avail; [they did] not [do] any [work ... (break of two lines) ...] have rebelled [...]. |
| Reverse [2:6] r 33–r 66 | Now then [I am writing to y]ou: your [ass]ociates are absolutely no [..., they are] unreliable [...] people. [The gov]ernor [...... |
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) |
|---|---|---|
| 1' | [x x x x x]-ba\t ⸢i-ti⸣-[iz] | |
| 2' | [x x x x]-⸢bi⸣ an-nu-⸢rig⸣ | |
| 3' | [dul-lu ša ina] ⸢UGU⸣-hi-ka a-du ⸢pil⸣-[ki] | |
| 4' | [ša\m x x x x]-ka-ni e-⸢ta⸣-[pa-aš₂] | |
| 5' | [x x pi]-⸢il⸣-ku TA@v\m 21 [x x] | |
| 6' | [x u₂-sa]-⸢pi-lu⸣ dul-lu ⸢la e⸣-[pu-šu] | |
| 7' | [ta-sap-ra] ma-a ina UGU 05 me {[giš}UR₃-MEŠ] | |
| 8' | [x x x] ina UGU 05-me-ma ša\dm [x x] | |
| 9' | [x x x ina] ⸢UGU⸣ ID₂ ⸢kar-ru⸣ ina UGU [an-nim-ma] | |
| 10' | {[lu₂v]}EN.NAM ša\dm {uru}tar-bu-si-bi | |
| 11' | [x x] e-ta-pa-aš₂ nu-uk\td an-nu-ti | |
| 12' | [lil-li]-ku ina UGU {1}aš-šur—MAN—PAB a-du | |
| 13' | {[lu₂v}A]—⸢KIN⸣ {[lu₂v}A]—⸢KIN⸣ ša\dm is-se-e-šu₂ | |
| 14' | [x x x]-me-hu\d a-na ⸢e⸣-[x x] | |
| b.e. | ||
| 15' | [x x x]-ni ša\dm 40-TA.⸢AN⸣ | |
| 16' | [x x x]+⸢x⸣ la DUG₃.GA [o] | |
| 17' | [dul-lu]-⸢um⸣-ma la [e-pu-šu] | |
| r | ||
| 1 | [x x] bur ⸢bat⸣-ti-⸢bat⸣-[ti x x x] | |
| 2 | [x x] ti ⸢x⸣ [x]+⸢x x⸣+[x x x] | |
| 3 | [i-ta]-⸢bal⸣-[ki]-tu₂ u₂-ma-a an-nu-[rig] | |
| 4 | [as-sap-rak]-⸢ka ša⸣ [is]-si-ka la-aš₂-šu₂ | |
| 5 | [la x x x]-ti UN-MEŠ\m la ke-nu-ti | |
| 6 | [šu-nu x x]+⸢x⸣ {[lu₂v]}⸢EN⸣.NAM | |
Sources & licences
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