CT 53, 579, K 14673 (P397189)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 579, K 14673 |
|---|---|
| ID | P397189 |
| 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/saa05 · 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 Nashir-Bel. Good health to the king, my lord]! |
| Obverse [3:6] o 44–o 66 | [The land of the king is well; the fo]rts [are well. The king, my lord, can be glad]. |
| Obverse [7:8] o 88–o 88 | [... Bit]-Zamani. |
| Obverse [8:9] o 99–o 99 | [...] for the watch |
| Obverse [9:10] o 1010–o 1010 | [... should] come up |
| Obverse [10:11] o 1111–o 1111 | [... should] come out. |
| Obverse [11:13] o 1212– | [... bull] colossus |
| Bottom [0:1] b.e. 13b.e. 13–b.e. 13b.e. 13 | [...] with me |
| Bottom [1:3] b.e. 1414– | [... they should] drag. |
| Reverse [0:1] r 1r 1–r 1r 1 | [... in x] days they should alternate. |
| Reverse [1:2] r 22–r 22 | [...] the bull colossus |
| Reverse [2:3] r 33–r 33 | [...] the stone thresholds |
| Reverse [3:4] r 44–r 44 | [... Se']-gabbar |
| Reverse [4:5] r 55–r 55 | [... the king], my lord |
| Reverse [5:6] r 66–r 66 | [...] I shall forward. |
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}NIGIN—EN] | |
| 3 | [lu DI-mu a-na LUGAL EN-ia₂] | |
| 4 | [DI-mu a-na KUR ša LUGAL] | |
| 5 | [DI-mu a-na {uru}HAL].⸢ṢU⸣-MEŠ\m | |
| 6 | [ŠA₃ ša LUGAL EN-ia lu DUG₃] | |
| 7 | [x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ | |
| 8 | [x x {kur}E₂]—za-ma\p-na\t | |
| 9 | [x x x a]-⸢na⸣ EN.NUN | |
| 10 | [x x x x] ⸢le⸣-li\d-u | |
| 11 | [x x x x] ⸢lu⸣-ṣu-u-ni | |
| 12 | [x x {na₄}{d}ALAD.{d]}LAMA | |
| b.e. | ||
| 13 | [x x x is]-⸢si⸣-ia | |
| 14 | [x x x liš]-du-du | |
| r | ||
| 1 | [x x x x]+⸢x⸣ UD-MEŠ li-te-nu-ni | |
| 2 | [x x x x]+⸢x⸣ {na₄}{d}ALAD.{d}LAMA | |
| 3 | [x x x x] {⸢na₄⸣}I.DIB-MEŠ\m | |
| 4 | [x x {1}se-e]—gab\p-bar | |
| 5 | [x x x LUGAL] EN-ia | |
| 6 | [x x x x] ⸢u₂⸣-qar\p-rab | |
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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