CT 53, 888 (P314297)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 888 |
|---|---|
| ID | P314297 |
| 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 [1:4] o 2'2'–o 4'4' | Right now [......] perhaps [......] the fodder which [...... he]re. |
| Obverse [4:13] o 5'5'– | [......] is demanding the food of the chariot troops saying: "You will give food [......]!" The king [my lord knows that we reaped our] s[own fields] together and st[ored] (the yield) in the villages. Mine is on [...] side, and they do not a[gree to give away] (any of) theirs, saying: "[You will] not [touch] our harvest." |
| Bottom [1:8] b.e. 13'13'– | Whether [......] or not [......]. When [......], 700 (homers) of [......] they reaped [......] their sown fields. |
| Reverse [4:10] r 55–r 1010 | I do want to [feed] the king my lord's hors[es], but all the same they should not introduce [their] chariot troops and their horses [......]. The towns [...... |
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' | ša₂-⸢ki⸣-[x x x x x x x] | |
| 2' | an-nu-rig ⸢x⸣+[x x x x] | |
| 3' | pi-qa-a-ti\t ⸢nu⸣-[x x x] | |
| 4' | ki-su-tu₂ ša\dm an-[na-ka x x] | |
| 5' | NINDA-MEŠ\m ša\dm {lu₂vy}{giš}⸢GIGIR⸣-[MEŠ x x x] | |
| 6' | ⸢e⸣-ri-ši ma-a NINDA-[MEŠ x x x] | |
| 7' | ta-da\d-an LUGAL [be-li₂ u₂-da] | |
| 8' | i-sa-a-hi-ši {še}[x x x x] | |
| 9' | ina ŠA₃-bi URU-ME ni-⸢du⸣-[bu-ku] | |
| 10' | ia-u₂ ina ba-te ⸢x⸣+[x x x x] | |
| 11' | i-šu-nu-u la-a i-⸢ma⸣-[gur₂ la i-du-nu] | |
| b.e. | ||
| 12' | ma-a e-bu-ri-ni ⸢la⸣ [x x x] | |
| 13' | šum-ma u₂-⸢x⸣+[x x x] | |
| 14' | šum-ma la [x x x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1 | ⸢ki⸣-i ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x] | |
| 2 | 07 me ša\dm [x x x x x x] | |
| 3 | {še}NUMUN-MEŠ\m-šu₂-[nu x x x x x] | |
| 4 | e-ta-ṣa-du ⸢x⸣+[x x x x] | |
| 5 | a-na\t-ku a-na\t {anšed}⸢KUR⸣.[RA-MEŠ] | |
| 6 | ša\dm LUGAL EN-ia ⸢lu⸣-[ša₂-kil] | |
| 7 | i-se-niš {lu₂v}{giš}GIGIR-[MEŠ-šu₂-nu] | |
| 8 | {anšed}KUR.RA-MEŠ\m-šu₂-nu [x x x x] | |
| 9 | la-a u₂\m-še-ru-[bu x x x] | |
| 10 | ⸢URU⸣-MEŠ\m-ni ka [x x x x x] | |
Sources & licences
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