CT 53, 840 (P314249)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 840 |
|---|---|
| ID | P314249 |
| 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/saa05 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [1:2] o 2'2'–o 2'2' | [......] in the city [...]. |
| Obverse [2:6] o 3'3'–o 6'6' | I have several times [told him to go] to Baqar to the [...] and bring down ice, but he does not obey me. |
| Obverse [6:12] o 7'7'– | [When the king], my lord, [was] in C[alah], I gave to the king, my lord, the following [report]: "I have ap[pointed ... in the Pa]lace [...] |
| Reverse [2:4] r 33–r 44 | "He has not opened [...], nor giv[en or]ders [to ......]." |
| Reverse [4:8] r 55–r 88 | The king, my lord, (then) se[nt] word; [he] was brou[ght] to Calah, and the king, my lord, order[ed] him be whipped with [...] leather straps. |
| Reverse [8:10] r 99–r 1010 | I (however) said to [the king, my lord]: "[......] |
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 x] | |
| 2' | ⸢ina {uru⸣}[x x x x x x x] | |
| 3' | 02-šu₂ 03-šu₂ ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x] | |
| 4' | nu-uk\dp pa-an {⸢lu₂⸣}[x x x] | |
| 5' | a-na {uru}ba\td-qar ⸢x⸣+[x x x x] | |
| 6' | ku-pu-u še-ri-⸢da\d⸣ [x x x] | |
| 7' | la i-ša\ydm-ma-a-ni [ki-i LUGAL] | |
| 8' | be-li₂ a-na\t {uru}⸢kal⸣-[hi šu-tu₂-ni] | |
| 9' | pa-an LUGAL EN-ia [ṭe₃-mu] | |
| 10' | u₂-te-re nu-⸢uk\dp⸣ [x x] | |
| b.e. | ||
| 11' | [ina E₂].⸢GAL ap⸣-[x x x] | |
| 12' | [x x x x x x x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1 | [x x x x x x x x x] | |
| 2 | [x]+⸢x⸣ [x x x x x x x x] | |
| 3 | ⸢la⸣ ip-ti\t nu-⸢uk\dp⸣ [x x x x] | |
| 4 | ⸢ṭe₃⸣-mu la iš-⸢kun⸣ [x x] | |
| 5 | LUGAL be-li₂ i-sa-⸢ap⸣-[ra] | |
| 6 | a-na\t {uru}kal-hi na-⸢ṣu⸣-[ni-šu] | |
| 7 | LUGAL be-li₂ iq-ṭi₂-⸢bi⸣ | |
| 8 | ma-a ŠA₃ {kuštd}mar-ša₂-⸢ni⸣ [x x] | |
| 9 | li\d-ṭu-šu₂ ana-ku\m pa-an [x x x] | |
| 10 | aq-ṭi₂-bi nu-[uk\dp x x x x] | |
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
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