CTN 2, 240 (P336167)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Kalhu · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CTN 2, 240 |
|---|---|
| ID | P336167 |
| Museum no. | BM 132008 + |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | Letter |
| Find spot | Kalhu (mod. Nimrūd) |
| Coordinates | 36.1022, 43.3385 |
English translation
By ORACC project saao/saa01 · 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 Ṭab-ṣill-Ešarra. Good health to the king, my lord! May Aššur and Mullissu bless the king, my lord! |
| Obverse [4:9] o 55–o 99 | As to what the king, my lord, wrote to me: "In order to kill locusts go to the villages of Mê-ṭabute and Amante, as far as Kasappa," |
| Obverse [9:15] o 1010–o 1515 | the locusts here in the centre of the land between [...] on the great mountain [......] I have removed [...... |
| Reverse [7:9] r 12'12'–r 13'13' | [......] the Inner City |
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}DUG₃.GA—ṣil\m—E₂.ŠAR₂.RA\t | |
| 3 | ⸢lu⸣ DI-mu a-na\t LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 4 | aš-šur {d}NIN.LIL₂ a-na\t LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 5 | lik-ru-bu ša LUGAL EN iš-pur-ni | |
| 6 | ma-a ina UGU NAM.ERIM du-a-ki | |
| 7 | ma-a a-na\t {uru}A-MEŠ\m—DUG₃.GA-MEŠ\m | |
| 8 | a-na\t {uru}am-an-te | |
| 9 | ma-a a-du {uru}ka-sa-pa a-lik | |
| 10 | NAM.ERIM{mušen} an-na\t-⸢ka⸣ [ina] ⸢ŠA₃⸣-bi KUR | |
| 11 | bir-te [x x x x x] ⸢ina⸣ KUR GAL-e | |
| 12 | ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x x] ⸢u₂⸣-ta\p-li | |
| 13 | [x x x x x x x x x x]-da | |
| 14 | [x x x x x x x x x x] | |
| 15 | [x x x x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [x x x x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣-tu₂ | |
| 2' | [x x x x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣-ta\p | |
| 3' | [x x x x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣-šu₂ | |
| 4' | [x x x x x x x x x x]-a | |
| 9' | [x x x x x x x x x x]-⸢a⸣ | |
| 10' | [x x x x x x x x x x] | |
| 11' | [x x x x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ | |
| 12' | [x x x x x x x x x x] {⸢uru⸣}ŠA₃—URU | |
| 13' | [x x x x 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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