CT 53, 884 (P314293)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 884 |
|---|---|
| ID | P314293 |
| 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 [0:1] o 1'1'–o 1'1' | [...... wh]at |
| Obverse [1:2] o 2'2'–o 2'2' | [......] the Ru['uean(s)] |
| Obverse [2:3] o 3'3'–o 3'3' | [...... sp]eak |
| Obverse [3:4] o 4'4'–o 4'4' | [Now the]n to |
| Obverse [4:5] o 5'5'–o 5'5' | [...... we]nt |
| Obverse [5:6] o 6'6'–o 6'6' | [......] the me[ss]enger |
| Obverse [6:7] o 7'7'–o 7'7' | [......] (He said): "I shall send |
| Obverse [7:8] o 8'8'–o 8'8' | [...... Mero]dach-Baladan |
| Obverse [8:9] o 9'9'–o 9'9' | [......] I shall fetch |
| Reverse [0:1] r 1'1'–r 1'1' | [......] we arri[ved] |
| Reverse [1:2] r 2'2'–r 2'2' | [......] said to me. |
| Reverse [2:4] r 3'3'–r 4'4' | [Now then] I have written [to] the king, my lord; [the king, my lord], may do [as] he deems best. |
| Reverse [4:8] r 5'5'–r 8'8' | [Perhaps the king], my [lo]rd, will say: "[Wh]ere is [the king of Elam]?" He has set out [......] and gone [......] |
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 mi]-i-nu | |
| 2' | [x x x x x x x] {lu₂v}ru-[u₂-a.a] | |
| 3' | [x x x x x x x]-bu\p-bu\p | |
| 4' | [u₂-ma-a an-nu]-⸢rig⸣ ina UGU | |
| 5' | [x x x x x x x]-lik-a-ni | |
| 6' | [x x x x x x x] {⸢lu₂v⸣}[A]—KIN {⸢lu₂v⸣}[A]—KIN | |
| 7' | [x x x x x x x] ma-a a-šap-par | |
| 8' | [x x x x {1}{d}AMAR].UD—A—SUM\m-na | |
| 9' | [x x x x x x x]-⸢a⸣ a-mat-tah | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [x x x x x x x] ni-iq-ṭi\d-[rib] | |
| 2' | [x x x x x x x] iq-ṭi-bi-ia | |
| 3' | [u₂-ma-a an-nu-rig a-na] LUGAL EN-ia₂ a-sap-ra | |
| 4' | [LUGAL be-li₂ ki-i ša] i-la-u-ni le-pu\p-uš | |
| 5' | [is—su-ri LUGAL be]-li₂ i-qab-bi | |
| 6' | [ma-a LUGAL {kur}NIM.MA a]-a-ka šu-u | |
| 7' | [x x x x x x x x] u₂\m-tam-me-iš | |
| 8' | [x x x x x x x x] it-ta-lak | |
Sources & licences
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