CT 54, 513 (P336158)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 54, 513 |
|---|---|
| ID | P336158 |
| 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/saa03 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [1:2] o 2'2'–o 2'2' | [......] is veiled in darkness. |
| Obverse [2:3] o 3'3'–o 3'3' | [......] he looks on, the magnates [...] towards him. |
| Obverse [3:4] o 4'4'–o 4'4' | [......] of kusītu and sāgu garments |
| Obverse [4:5] o 5'5'–o 5'5' | [......] holding [...], wailed like an ecstatic. |
| Obverse [5:6] o 6'6'–o 6'6' | [......]... his ... and his mouth |
| Obverse [6:8] o 7'7'– | [......] is in labour, screaming |
| Bottom [0:1] b.e. 8'b.e. 8'–b.e. 8'b.e. 8' | [......] her [...]: "Oh magnates [...]! |
| Bottom [1:2] b.e. 9'9'–b.e. 9'9' | [......]... the king, your lord |
| Bottom [2:3] b.e. 10'10'–b.e. 10'10' | [......]... the land and the king |
| Bottom [3:4] b.e. 11'11'–b.e. 11'11' | [......]... like a snake" |
| Bottom [4:6] b.e. 12'12'– | [......]... he has put on [...]... |
| Reverse [0:1] r 1r 1–r 1r 1 | [......]... and the lower side |
| Reverse [1:2] r 22–r 22 | [......] tears rolled down [the cheeks] of his mother: |
| Reverse [2:3] r 33–r 33 | "[......]... you, I glance |
| Reverse [3:4] r 44–r 44 | [......] Who taught you [the ...] of kingship?" |
| Reverse [4:5] r 55–r 55 | [......] her beautiful figure, has taught me her weeping, |
| Reverse [5:6] r 66–r 66 | [......] has put wailing on my lips |
| Reverse [6:7] r 77–r 77 | not to harm ...[......] |
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' | [x x x]+⸢x⸣+[x x x]+⸢x⸣+[x x x x x] | |
| 2' | [x x]+⸢x⸣ ta-di-ir-tu₂ ku-ut-⸢tu-um⸣ | |
| 3' | [x] ⸢x⸣ i-dag-gal GAL-MEŠ ⸢ina ir⸣-ti-šu₂ ⸢x⸣+[x] | |
| 4' | [x]-nu-te ša₂ {tug₂}BAR.DIB-MEŠ {tug₂}sa-gat-MEŠ | |
| 5' | [x x x x x] u₂-ka-lu a-ki mah-he-e id-⸢mu⸣-[mu] | |
| 6' | [x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ lu ⸢x x-šu₂⸣ u KA-šu₂ | |
| 7' | [x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ ta-hi-al ina ṣi-ri-ih-te | |
| b.e. | ||
| 8' | [x x x x x x]-ša₂ ma-a GAL-MEŠ MU [x x] | |
| 9' | [x x x x x]-⸢ri⸣-ba ⸢LUGAL⸣ EN-ku-[nu] | |
| 10' | [x x x x x x]-⸢lu⸣-šu₂ KUR u LUGAL-⸢ma⸣ | |
| 11' | [x x x x x]-⸢bu-ub⸣ ṣir-⸢riš⸣ | |
| 12' | [x x x x x] ⸢it⸣-ti-bi il-te-biš | |
| r | ||
| 1 | [x x]-⸢it⸣-te-ia u₃ it-te KI.⸢TA-nu⸣ | |
| 2 | [x x] AMA-šu₂ it-ta-aš₂-ki-na di-in-tu₂ | |
| 3 | [x x]+⸢x⸣-nu-te at-ta at-ta-pal-lis | |
| 4 | [x]-⸢ut⸣ LUGAL-te man-nu u₂-lam-mid-ka-a | |
| 5 | [x]+⸢x⸣ ba-ni-e la-ni-ša₂ ba-ku-ša₂ ul-tam-mid-an-ni | |
| 6 | ⸢il-ta-kan⸣ nu-bu-u ina ša₂-pa-tu-u₂-a | |
| 7 | [x x x x]-⸢ta⸣-ha la <$u$> ha-ba-la | |
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)
- electronic Babylonian Library (eBL), LMU Munich · MIT (eBL Zenodo dataset); platform terms unverified · electronic Babylonian Library (eBL), LMU Munich, https://www.ebl.lmu.de/ ; Zenodo dataset (MIT)
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