CT 53, 955 (P314364)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 955 |
|---|---|
| ID | P314364 |
| 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 king, my lord: your servant Nabû-n]aṣir. [May Nabû and Mard]uk [greatly ble]ss [the king], my [lord]! |
| Obverse [6:10] o 77–o 1010 | [Aššur]-mukin-palu'a [is ver]y, very [well]; the king, my lord, [can be gl]ad. |
| Obverse [10:12] o 1111–o 1212 | This [... that is being br]ought to us [...] |
| Reverse [1:5] r 2'2'–r 5'5' | [...]yah is very, very [well]. |
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}AG]—⸢PAB-ir⸣ | |
| 3 | {[d}AG u₃ {d}AMAR].UTU | |
| 4 | [a-na LUGAL EN]-ia | |
| 5 | [a—dan-niš lik-ru]-⸢bu⸣ | |
| 6 | [DI-mu ad—dan]-niš MIN | |
| 7 | [a-na {1}aš-šur]—mu-kin—BALA-u-a | |
| 8 | [ŠA₃-bu ša] ⸢LUGAL⸣ EN-ia | |
| 9 | [lu-u DUG₃].⸢GA⸣-šu₂ | |
| 10 | [x x x x] an-ni-u | |
| 11 | [ša u₂-še]-ra-ba-na-še-[ni] | |
| 12 | [x x x x] ṣur [x] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [x x x x] ⸢x x⸣ [x x] | |
| 2' | [DI-mu] ⸢ad⸣—dan-niš MIN | |
| 3' | [x x x x]-⸢ia⸣-ah | |
| 4' | [x x x x]+⸢x⸣ gu | |
| 5' | [x x x x] ⸢x x⸣ | |
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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