CT 53, 928 (P314337)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 928 |
|---|---|
| ID | P314337 |
| 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 [0:5] o 1o 1–o 55 | To the king, my lord: your servant [Marduk-šakin-šumi]. Good health to [the king, my lord]! May Nabû and [Marduk] bless the king, [my lord]! |
| Obverse [5:10] o 66–o 1010 | Con[cerning ...] about whom the king, my lord, [wrote to me]: "Should he enter afterwards, or, in view of ..., [...]?" |
| Obverse [10:20] o 1111– | (11) (Break) |
| Reverse [3:9] r 44–r 99 | The king, my lord, should enter the [...] of Nabû and as soon as the king, my lord, has entered, he should meet him. |
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 ⸢DI⸣-mu ⸢a-na⸣ [LUGAL EN-ia₂] | |
| 4 | {d}PA {d}⸢AMAR⸣.[UTU] | |
| 5 | a-na LUGAL ⸢EN⸣-[ia₂] | |
| 6 | lik-ru-bu ina [UGU x x] | |
| 7 | ša LUGAL be-⸢li₂⸣ [iš-pur-an-ni] | |
| 8 | ⸢ma-a⸣ ina ⸢da-a⸣-[te] | |
| 9 | le-ru-bu ⸢x⸣ [x (x)] | |
| 10 | u₂-la-a ⸢TA@v pa-an⸣ | |
| 11 | ⸢x dan-ni x x x x⸣ | |
| 12 | ša ⸢x⸣ [x x x]-⸢u-ni⸣ | |
| 13 | ma-a [x x x x] | |
| 14 | ina [x x x x x x] | |
| b.e. | ||
| 15 | ⸢x x⸣ [x x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1 | ⸢x⸣ [x x x x] | |
| 2 | ⸢x x⸣ [x x x x] | |
| 3 | ⸢URU x x x x⸣ | |
| 4 | [x]-mur ⸢LUGAL be-li₂⸣ | |
| 5 | [x x] ina ŠA₃ ⸢x⸣+[x] | |
| 6 | {⸢d}PA⸣ le-ru-⸢ub⸣ | |
| 7 | [be₂]-⸢et⸣ LUGAL EN | |
| 8 | ⸢e⸣-ru-ub-⸢u₂-ni⸣ | |
| 9 | ina ir-ti-[šu] | |
| 10 | lil-li-⸢ka⸣ | |
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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