CT 53, 903 (P314312)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 903 |
|---|---|
| ID | P314312 |
| 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 [0:2] o 1'1'–o 2'2' | (I swear) I have finis[hed] the wo[rk assignment ...] |
| Obverse [2:3] o 3'3'–o 3'3' | of Nis[an (I) ...] |
| Obverse [3:6] o 4'4'–o 6'6' | and have given him the [...] of ...[...]. |
| Obverse [6:9] o 7'7'–o 9'9' | Now, in accordance with [what the king, my lord] wrote me, [I shall be] before the king, my lord, b[y ...]. |
| Obverse [9:18] o 10'10'– | As long as the king, my lord, [...], let the king my lord summon [...] and see (for himself that) it is beyond my power, and let the king my lord support me. [I]f it is beyond my power, [the king] my lord himself should see it. |
| Reverse [0:1] r 1r 1–r 1r 1 | [Sho]uld I be able to finish it, [...] |
| Reverse [1:2] r 22–r 22 | [...] fish [...] |
| Reverse [3:4] r 44–r 44 | [...] Rimutu has taken |
| Reverse [4:5] r 55–r 55 | [......] Babylon |
| Reverse [5:6] r 66–r 66 | [......] boats |
| Reverse [6:7] r 77–r 77 | [......] before |
| Reverse [7:12] r 88–r 1212 | [......] it is |
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' | [šum]-ma ⸢pil⸣-[ku x x x] | |
| 2' | ⸢la⸣ ag-⸢ma⸣-[ru-ni x x] | |
| 3' | ša {iti}⸢BARAG⸣ [x x x x] | |
| 4' | u₃ gu-⸢x⸣+[x x x x] | |
| 5' | ša EN ša [x x x x] | |
| 6' | la ad-din-šu₂ [x x x x] | |
| 7' | u₂-ma-a ki-⸢i⸣ [ša LUGAL be-li₂] | |
| 8' | iš-pur-an-ni a-[x x x] | |
| 9' | ina pa-nat LUGAL ⸢EN⸣-[ia x x] | |
| 10' | a-du E₂ LUGAL be-[li₂ x x x] | |
| 11' | ⸢LUGAL\t⸣ be-li₂ re-eš [x x x] | |
| 12' | liš\d-ši le-mu-ru\d ⸢la⸣ | |
| 13' | e-mu-qa\d-a.a LUGAL\t be-li₂ | |
| 14' | ⸢le⸣-mi-id-da-an-ni\d | |
| b.e. | ||
| 15' | [šum]-ma la e-<mu>-qa\d-a.a | |
| 16' | [LUGAL]-ma be-li₂ le-e-mu-ru\d | |
| r | ||
| 1 | [lu]-u a-gam-ma-a-[ra x]+⸢x⸣-ti\t-ma | |
| 2 | [x x]-mu KU₆-HI.⸢A⸣ [x x x x] | |
| 3 | [x x] bi ni mut [x] ⸢x x⸣ | |
| 4 | [x x x] {1}ri-mu-tu₂ ⸢it⸣-ti\t-ši | |
| 5 | [x x x x] ⸢KA₂⸣.DINGIR.RA{ki} | |
| 6 | [x x x x x] {giš}MA₂-MEŠ | |
| 7 | [x x x x x] ⸢a-na⸣ pa-an | |
| 8 | [x x x x x x]-ma ⸢ši⸣-i | |
| 9 | [x x x x x x] ša is-si-i | |
| 10 | [x x x x x x x]-MEŠ-⸢ni⸣ | |
| 11 | [x x x x x x x] ⸢al⸣ | |
| 12 | [x x x x x x x] mu | |
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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