CT 53, 015 (P393855)
Administrative Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 015 |
|---|---|
| ID | P393855 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | Administrative Letter |
| Find spot | Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) |
| Coordinates | 36.3582, 43.1621 |
English translation
By ORACC project saao/saa01 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:3] o 1o 1–o 33 | [To the king, my lord: your servant .... Good health to the king], my lord! |
| Obverse [3:10] o 44–o 1010 | [As to ...] the god [about whom the king] my lord wrote to me, I have done [as] the king my lord [wr]ote to me, I have erected a [...] on the river and placed her in it. |
| Obverse [10:14] o 1111–o 1414 | [...] wrote and [as]ked [......] she [.......] she [...... |
| Reverse [0:10] r 1r 1–r 1010 | [As to] Aššur-šarru-uṣur the governor of Que [......] about whom [the king] my lord wr[ote to me]: "What ...... |
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}x x x x] | |
| 3 | [lu DI-mu a-na LUGAL] ⸢EN-ia⸣ | |
| 4 | [ina UGU x x x]+⸢x⸣ DINGIR | |
| 5 | [ša LUGAL be]-li₂ iš-pur-an-ni | |
| 6 | [ki-i] ⸢ša⸣ LUGAL be-li₂ | |
| 7 | [iš]-⸢pur⸣-an-ni e-tap-aš₂ | |
| 8 | [x x]+⸢x⸣-tu ina UGU ID₂ | |
| 9 | ⸢us-sat⸣-pi ina ŠA₃-bi | |
| 10 | ⸢ak-ta⸣-ra-ar₂-ši | |
| 11 | [x x x] i-sa-par-ra | |
| 12 | [ma-a i-sa]-ʾa-al | |
| 13 | [x x x x x]+⸢x⸣-ni ši-i | |
| 14 | [x x x x x x]-MEŠ\t-te ⸢ši⸣-i | |
| 15 | [x x x x x]-din | |
| b.e. | ||
| 16 | [x x x]-⸢i⸣ | |
| r | ||
| 1 | [x] ⸢x x⸣ li\d | |
| 2 | [x x] {1}aš-šur⸣—MAN—PAB | |
| 3 | {[lu₂v]}⸢EN⸣.NAM {kur}qu-e | |
| 4 | [x x] ⸢x⸣ [x x]+⸢x⸣ | |
| 5 | ⸢ša\m⸣ [LUGAL] be-li₂ | |
| 6 | ⸢iš⸣-[pur-an-ni ma-a] ⸢mi⸣-i-nu | |
| 7 | [x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ ma | |
| 8 | [x x x x x x] sa | |
| 9 | [x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ ša₂ | |
| 10 | [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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