CT 54, 314 (P239359)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 54, 314 |
|---|---|
| ID | P239359 |
| 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] 2'2'–2'2' | [...] sen[t ...] |
| Obverse [2:3] 3'3'–3'3' | [... the k]ing of Babyl[on ...] |
| Obverse [3:4] 4'4'–4'4' | [...] their [...] |
| Obverse [4:5] 5'5'–5'5' | [...] to [...] |
| Obverse [5:6] 6'6'–6'6' | [...] bac[k ...] |
| Obverse [6:7] 7'7'–7'7' | [...] I s[ent to] the king [...] |
| Obverse [7:13] 8'8'–13'13' | [...] in [...] |
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⸣ ki [x x x x x x x] | |
| 2' | [x] ⸢iš⸣-pu-⸢ra⸣ [x x x x x x] | |
| 3' | [x x x] ⸢LUGAL⸣ TIN.⸢TIR⸣{[ki} x x x x] | |
| 4' | [x x x x]+⸢x⸣-šu₂-nu ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x] | |
| 5' | [x x] ⸢x⸣ [x x]+⸢x⸣ a-⸢na⸣ [x x x x] | |
| 6' | [x x] ⸢a⸣-na ku-ta-⸢al⸣-[li x x x] | |
| 7' | [x x x] LUGAL al-[tap-ra x x x] | |
| 8' | [x x x]+⸢x⸣-is ina ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x] | |
| 9' | [x x x]+⸢x⸣ u₂ ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x] | |
| 10' | [x x x x]+⸢x ki⸣ [x x x x x x] | |
| 11' | [x x x]-i ša₂ ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x] | |
| 12' | [x x x x]+⸢x⸣ u₂ ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x] | |
| 13' | [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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