CT 53, 023 (P313438)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 023 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313438 |
| 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 [0:6] o 1'1'– | [Concerning the bile which he purged] upwards and which settled downwards, in the whole medical literature it is said as follows: |
| Reverse [0:3] r 1r 1–r 33 | "(If) he purges through his mouth and his anus, he will get well." |
| Reverse [3:4] r 44–r 44 | [According to] what I have seen [...] |
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 e-liš⸣ [u₂-še-šir-u]-⸢ni⸣ | |
| 2' | a-na šap-liš u₂-šab-u-ni | |
| 3' | ina bu-ul-ṭi gab-bu | |
| 4' | a-ki an-ni-ie-⸢e⸣ | |
| 5' | qa-bi | |
| r | ||
| 1 | ina pi-i-šu₂ u₃ DUR₂-šu₂ | |
| 2 | u₂-še-šar-am-ma | |
| 3 | ⸢i⸣-ba-al-lu-uṭ | |
| 4 | [ina] ⸢pit-te⸣ ša₂ a-mur-u-ni | |
| e. | ||
| 1 | bi ⸢x⸣+[x x] | |
Sources & licences
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- 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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