CT 54, 256 (P239190)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 54, 256 |
|---|---|
| ID | P239190 |
| 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/saa17 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [2:3] 3'3'–3'3' | [...]anni, the so[n of NN] |
| Obverse [3:4] 4'4'–4'4' | [... sa]id to him [...] |
| Obverse [4:5] 5'5'–5'5' | [...] I said [...] |
| Obverse [5:6] 6'6'–6'6' | [... be]fore me: "[...]" |
| Obverse [6:7] 7'7'–7'7' | [...] Lanšê [...] |
| Obverse [7:8] 8'8'–8'8' | [...] and after [...] |
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) |
|---|---|---|
| 1' | [x x x]+⸢x⸣ [x x x x x x x] | |
| 2' | [x x] x ⸢it⸣-[x x x x x x] | |
| 3' | [x x]-⸢an⸣-ni ⸢DUMU⸣ [x x x x x] | |
| 4' | [x iq]-⸢ta⸣-ba-aš₂-⸢šu₂⸣ [x x x x x] | |
| 5' | [x x x] aq-bu-u₂ [x x x x x] | |
| 6' | [i-na] ⸢pa⸣-nu-u₂-a um-⸢ma⸣ [x x x x] | |
| 7' | [x x x]+⸢x⸣ {1}la-an-še-e [x x x x] | |
| 8' | [x x x x] u₃ ul-tu [x x x] | |
| 9' | [x x 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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