CT 53, 969 (P314378)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 969 |
|---|---|
| ID | P314378 |
| 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/saa13 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:9] o 1o 1–o 99 | To the king, my lord: your servant, Nabû-reši-išši. Good health to the king, my lord. May Aššur, Ištar, Nabû, and Marduk let the king, my lord, live 100 years. |
| Obverse [9:15] o 1010– | The sacrifices of the king [...] have been performed on the [14]th [day], the 16th, [the 18th], the 20th [......] |
| Reverse [1:2] r 22–r 22 | [... ] will go |
| Reverse [4:5] r 55–r 55 | [...] within [...] |
| Reverse [6:19] r 77– | she prophesied: "Why did you give the [...]-wood, the grove, and the ... to the Egyptians? Say in the king's presence that they should be given back to me. I will (then) give total abundance [to] his [...]." |
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}{d}⸢PA—SAG⸣—i-ši | |
| 3 | lu-u DI-mu ⸢a-na⸣ LUGAL | |
| 4 | EN-ia | |
| 5 | aš-šur {d}15 {d}PA | |
| 6 | u₃ {d}AMAR.UTU | |
| 7 | 01-me MU.AN.NA-MEŠ | |
| 8 | a-na LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 9 | lu-u-bal-li-ṭu | |
| 10 | {⸢udu⸣}SISKUR-MEŠ ša LUGAL | |
| 11 | [x x]-⸢ru ep-ša₂-ni⸣ | |
| 12 | [UD 14-KAM₂ UD 16-KAM₂ | |
| 13 | [UD 18-KAM₂] UD 20-KAM₂ | |
| 14 | [x x x x]+⸢x⸣-is | |
| r | ||
| 1 | [x x x x]+⸢x x⸣+[x x] | |
| 2 | [x x] ⸢il-lak⸣ | |
| 3 | [x x]-me-ka-a.a | |
| 4 | [x x] za nu kid [x] | |
| 5 | [x] ina ŠA₃ il-[x] | |
| 6 | ha i tu₂ ⸢ru⸣ [x] | |
| 7 | ta-ru-gu-⸢um⸣ | |
| 8 | ma-a a-ta-⸢a⸣ {giš}ni-⸢x⸣+[x] | |
| 9 | {giš}qab-lu li-⸢du-x⸣ | |
| 10 | a-na {lu₂v}mu-ṣur-a-a | |
| 11 | ta-a-din | |
| 12 | ma-a pa-an LUGAL | |
| 13 | qi-bi-⸢a⸣ | |
| 14 | lu-u-sa-hi-ru | |
| 15 | lid-nu-ni | |
| r.e. | ||
| 16 | ma-a gab-bi | |
| 17 | nu-uh-šu₂ | |
| e. | ||
| 1 | [x x x x]-šu₂ a-⸢da-na⸣ | |
Sources & licences
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