CT 53, 891 (P314300)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 891 |
|---|---|
| ID | P314300 |
| 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 [0:3] o 1o 1–o 33 | [To the king, my lord: your servant NN. Good health to the king, my] lord! |
| Obverse [3:7] o 44–o 77 | [As to the Urarṭ]ians [about whom the king, my lord], wrote me: "[Whatev]er is the ne[ws about th]em?" — |
| Obverse [7:8] o 88–o 88 | [...] who asked [......]. |
| Obverse [8:9] o 99–o 99 | He is a eunuch [...] |
| Obverse [9:11] o 1010–o 1111 | who in their presence [......] |
| Reverse [0:4] r 1'1'–r 4'4' | their [...] changed [...] for us, [and we took] our replacement from it. [They are] guar[ding him/them] now. |
| Reverse [4:11] r 5'5'– | How [should] we [proceed]? It is a cohort formed by the king, [my] lo[rd]; if it suits the king, [my lord], [let them ...] like [...]; |
| Right [0:2] r.e. 11r.e. 11–r.e. 1212 | [oth]erwise [......] |
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 be-li₂-ia] | |
| 2 | [ARAD-ka {1}x x x x x] | |
| 3 | [lu DI-mu a-na LUGAL] ⸢EN⸣-[ia] | |
| 4 | [ina UGU {kur}URI]-a.⸢a⸣ | |
| 5 | [ša LUGAL be-li₂] iš-pur-an-[ni] | |
| 6 | ⸢ma⸣-[a mi-i-nu]-⸢um⸣-[ma] | |
| 7 | ⸢ṭe₃⸣-[en-šu₂]-⸢nu⸣ i-⸢x⸣+[x x x] | |
| 8 | ša\dm iš-ʾa-⸢al⸣-[x x x] | |
| 9 | {lu₂v}SAG šu-tu₂ ⸢x⸣+[x x x] | |
| 10 | ša\dm ina pa-ni-šu₂\d-nu [x x x] | |
| 11 | [x x x] ina ⸢x⸣ [x x x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | ha-[x]-⸢x⸣-šu₂\d-nu [x x x] | |
| 2' | e-te-nu-na\t-⸢ši⸣ [x x] | |
| 3' | bat-qi\m-ni TA@v\m ŠA₃-bi [ni-ti-ši] | |
| 4' | u₂-ma-a i-na\t-⸢ṣu⸣-[ru-šu₂] | |
| 5' | a-ni-nu a-ke-e [ne₂-pu-uš] | |
| 6' | ki-iṣ-⸢ru ša⸣ LUGAL be-[li₂] | |
| 7' | ik\d-ṣur-u-ni\d šu-u-[tu] | |
| 8' | ⸢šum⸣-mu ina pa-an LUGAL [EN-ia] | |
| 9' | ⸢ta⸣-ri-iṣ ki-⸢i⸣ [x x] | |
| 10' | [lu]-⸢um⸣-mi-[du x x x] | |
| r.e. | ||
| 11 | [u₂]-la-a [x x x x] | |
| 12 | [x x] e [x x x x x] | |
Sources & licences
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