CT 53, 003 (P313418)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 003 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313418 |
| 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/saa10 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:9] o 1o 1– | Like any potion that my lord drinks, you put three drops into the libation bowl with the tip of a stylus and drink it before the bread. The water wherein it is mixed should be .... |
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 | ki-⸢i⸣ maš-qit me-me-[ni] | |
| 2 | ša be-li₂ i-šat-tu-u-ni | |
| 3 | 03-šu₂ ina pi-i ša qar-ṭup-pi | |
| 4 | ⸢ina⸣ mu-naq-qi-te | |
| 5 | ⸢ta⸣-kar-ra-ar | |
| r | ||
| 1 | pa-na-at NINDA-MEŠ | |
| 2 | ta-ša₂-at-ti | |
| 3 | A-MEŠ ša ina ŠA₃ i-hi-qu-u-ni | |
| 4 | lu kar-su | |
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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