CT 53, 892 (P314301)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 892 |
|---|---|
| ID | P314301 |
| 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 [0:4] o 1o 1–o 44 | [To the king, my lord: your servant] Nabû-belu-[ka''in. Good health] to the kin[g, my lord]! [The land] of the king [my] lo[rd is well]. |
| Obverse [4:6] o 55–o 66 | [New]s of Hu[mbê]: he is still [in] Akk[uddu]. |
| Obverse [6:7] o 77–o 77 | [...... o]f Elam |
| Obverse [7:8] o 88–o 88 | [......] Akk[uddu] |
| Obverse [8:9] o 99–o 99 | [......] them the[re] |
| Obverse [9:10] o 1010–o 1010 | [......] the king, [my lo]rd |
| Obverse [10:11] o 1111–o 1111 | [......] this [...] |
| Obverse [11:12] o 1212–o 1212 | [...... o]f Ašpa-[bari] |
| Reverse [0:1] r 1'1'–r 1'1' | [......] there [...] |
| Reverse [2:3] r 3'3'–r 3'3' | [...] looks [......] |
| Reverse [3:7] r 4'4'–r 7'7' | Concerning [NN about whom the king, my lord], wrote to me: |
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-ia₂] | |
| 2 | [ARAD-ka {1}{⸢d⸣}PA—EN—[GIN] | |
| 3 | [lu DI-mu] ⸢a⸣-na ⸢LUGAL⸣ [EN-a] | |
| 4 | [DI-mu a-na KUR] ša\ydm LUGAL ⸢EN⸣-[a] | |
| 5 | [ṭe₃-e]-⸢mu⸣ ša\ydm {1}hu-⸢um⸣-[be₂-e] | |
| 6 | [ina {uru}ak]-⸢ku⸣-du-ma šu-⸢tu₂⸣ | |
| 7 | [x x x] ⸢ša⸣ {kur}NIM.MA{⸢ki⸣} | |
| 8 | [x x x x] {uru}ak-⸢ku⸣-[du] | |
| 9 | [x x x x]+⸢x⸣-šu₂-nu ina ŠA₃-[bi] | |
| 10 | [x x x x x]+⸢x⸣-ru\d LUGAL ⸢EN⸣ | |
| 11 | [x x x x]-⸢da\d⸣-a an-ni-⸢u₂⸣ | |
| 12 | [x x x x x] ⸢ša\ydm⸣ {1}aš₂-pa—[ba-ri] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [x x x] ma-ka [x x x x] | |
| 2' | [x x x] i-⸢x⸣+[x x x] | |
| 3' | [x x x]-ni i-da\d-⸢gal⸣ [x x x] | |
| 4' | [x x x]+⸢x⸣-da\d ina UGU {1}[x x x] | |
| 5' | [ša LUGAL EN] ⸢iš⸣-pur-an-ni [x x x] | |
| 6' | [x x x]+⸢x⸣ aš₂ ⸢qu⸣ [x x x] | |
| 7' | [x x x]+⸢x⸣ | |
Sources & licences
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