CT 53, 936 (P314345)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 936 |
|---|---|
| ID | P314345 |
| 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/saa16 · 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 [PN]. Good health to the king, [my] lord! May Nabû and Marduk very greatly bless the kin[g, my] lord. |
| Obverse [4:7] o 55–o 77 | Concerning the village manager of the Bit-Unqian in Damascus about whom I spoke in the presence of the king, [my] lo[rd], he says: "(One) who is pre[sent] |
| Reverse [0:1] r 1'1'–r 1'1' | [...]â, the [...] (official) |
| Reverse [1:2] r 2'2'–r 2'2' | [...] which we [...] |
| Reverse [2:3] r 3'3'–r 3'3' | [...] of them is bringing [...] |
| Reverse [3:5] r 4'4'–r 5'5' | [The k]ing, my lord, should do as he deems best. |
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 EN-ia ARAD-ka {1}x x x x] | |
| 2 | lu-u šul-mu a-na LUGAL EN-[ia] | |
| 3 | {d}PA u {d}AMAR.UTU a-na ⸢LUGAL EN⸣-[ia] | |
| 4 | a—dan-niš a—dan-niš lik-ru-bu | |
| 5 | ina UGU {lu₂v}GAL—URU-MEŠ {lu₂v}GAL—URU-MEŠ ša E₂—⸢un⸣-qi-a.a | |
| 6 | ša ina {uru}di-maš-qa ša ina IGI LUGAL ⸢EN⸣-[ia] | |
| 7 | ⸢aq⸣-bu-u-ni ⸢ma-a⸣ ša ⸢qur⸣-[x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [x x x]-⸢a.a {lu₂v⸣}[x x x x x] | |
| 2' | [x] ⸢x x⸣ GAL ša ni-⸢za⸣-[x x x] | |
| 3' | ⸢x⸣ [x] ⸢a ina⸣ [ŠA₃]-bi-šu₂-nu na-ṣa | |
| 4' | ⸢LUGAL be-li₂⸣ ki-i | |
| 5' | ⸢ša i-la-u-ni⸣ le-pu-uš | |
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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