CT 53, 897 (P314306)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 897 |
|---|---|
| ID | P314306 |
| 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/saa10 · 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 Marduk-šakin-šumi. Good health to the king, my lord! May Nabû and Marduk ble]ss [the king, my lord]! |
| Obverse [4:10] o 55–o 1010 | As to [...] about which the king my lord w[rote to me, wh]at else [should we do]? There is no [danger ...] |
| Reverse [1:2] r 2'2'–r 2'2' | [......] commandments |
| Reverse [2:3] r 3'3'–r 3'3' | [......] let them not keep |
| Reverse [3:4] r 4'4'–r 4'4' | [...... let them s]weep |
| Reverse [4:5] r 5'5'–r 5'5' | [......] let him wash his arms |
| Reverse [5:6] r 6'6'–r 6'6' | [......] double-hour(s) [...] |
| Reverse [6:7] r 7'7'–r 7'7' | we sh[all perform before E]nlil [......] |
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}{d}AMAR.UTU—GAR—MU] | |
| 3 | [lu-u DI-mu a-na LUGAL EN-ia₂] | |
| 4 | {[d}PA u {d}AMAR.UTU a-na LUGAL EN-ia₂] | |
| 5 | [lik]-⸢ru⸣-bu ina ⸢UGU⸣ [x x x x] | |
| 6 | ⸢ša⸣ LUGAL be-li₂ ⸢iš⸣-[pur-an-ni] | |
| 7 | [mi-nu]-⸢um⸣-ma ah—hur | |
| 8 | [ne₂-pu-uš] la-aš₂-šu₂ | |
| 9 | [hi-ṭu x x]-⸢ra⸣-a-ni | |
| 10 | [x x x x x]-eš | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [x x x x]-⸢lam⸣ | |
| 2' | [x x x] qi₂-ba-a-ni | |
| 3' | [x x lu] ⸢la⸣ u₂-kal-lu | |
| 4' | [x x lu]-⸢šap⸣-pi-ṭu | |
| 5' | [x x] ⸢A₂⸣.2-šu₂ LUH-⸢si⸣ | |
| 6' | [x x] KASKAL.GID₂ [x x] | |
| 7' | [ina IGI {d]}⸢EN⸣.LIL₂ ne₂-⸢ep⸣-[pa-aš₂] | |
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
- 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) · ORACC project editions, https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ ; cite the individual project (see texts.extra_json.project)
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