CT 53, 943 (P314352)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 943 |
|---|---|
| ID | P314352 |
| 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 [0:6] o 1o 1–o 66 | [To] the ki[ng, my lord]: you[r servant Issar-šumu-ereš. Good hea]th to [the king, my lord]! May [Na]bû and Mard[uk] bless [the king], my lord! |
| Obverse [6:9] o 77–o 99 | It is [not] propitious [to] go out [to]morrow. |
| Obverse [9:10] o 1010–o 1010 | [...] as long as |
| Obverse [10:12] o 1111–o 1212 | [...... s]peech |
| Reverse [1:2] r 2'2'–r 2'2' | [Wha]t is it th[at the king my lo]rd [orders]? |
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] | |
| 2 | [ARAD]-⸢ka⸣ {1}15—MU—KAM-eš] | |
| 3 | [lu DI]-mu a-na [LUGAL EN-ia] | |
| 4 | {[d]}⸢PA⸣ {d}AMAR.[UTU] | |
| 5 | [a-na LUGAL] EN-ia | |
| 6 | [lik]-⸢ru⸣-bu | |
| 7 | [ina] ⸢ši⸣-a-⸢ri⸣ | |
| 8 | [a-na] ⸢u₂⸣-ṣe-⸢e⸣ | |
| 9 | [la-a] ⸢ṭa⸣-a-⸢ba⸣ | |
| 10 | [x x x] ⸢ki⸣ ma-⸢ṣi⸣ | |
| 11 | [x x x x] ⸢da⸣-ba-bi | |
| 12 | [x x x x x x x] ta ⸢na⸣ [x] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [x x x] lak [x x x] | |
| 2' | [mi-i]-nu ⸢ša⸣ [LUGAL] | |
| 3' | [be]-⸢li⸣ [i-qab-bu-u-ni] | |
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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