CT 54, 280 (P239303)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 54, 280 |
|---|---|
| ID | P239303 |
| 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/saa18 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [1:2] o 2'2'–o 2'2' | Aššur-[... ...] |
| Obverse [2:3] o 3'3'–o 3'3' | to [......] |
| Reverse [0:1] r 1r 1–r 1r 1 | Now the king [......] |
| Reverse [1:2] r 22–r 22 | Nobody should [......] |
| Reverse [2:3] r 33–r 33 | they should go [......] |
| Reverse [3:4] r 44–r 44 | in the city [......] |
| Reverse [4:5] r 55–r 55 | upon the dais [......] |
| Reverse [5:6] r 66–r 66 | they should sit [...] |
| Reverse [6:7] r 77–r 77 | Marduk and Za[rpanitu] |
| Reverse [7:8] r 88–r 88 | to [......] |
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] | |
| 2' | {1}AN.ŠAR₂—⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x x] | |
| 3' | a-na ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x x x] | |
| 4' | [x x x x x x x x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1 | en-na LUGAL ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x] | |
| 2 | mam-ma la i-⸢x⸣+[x x x x] | |
| 3 | lil-li-ku ⸢x⸣+[x x x x] | |
| 4 | i-na URU {kur}⸢x⸣+[x x x x] | |
| 5 | i-na UGU BARAG [x x x] | |
| 6 | lu-ši-bu [x x x] | |
| 7 | {d}AMAR.UTU u₃ {d}⸢zar⸣-[pa-ni-tum] | |
| 8 | ⸢a-na bu-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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