CT 53, 030 (P313445)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 030 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313445 |
| 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/saa05 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [1:2] o 2'2'–o 2'2' | [......] they |
| Obverse [2:3] o 3'3'–o 3'3' | [......] another mountain [...] |
| Obverse [3:4] o 4'4'–o 4'4' | [......] he returns [...] |
| Obverse [4:5] o 5'5'–o 5'5' | [......] great [...] in Šimu |
| Obverse [5:6] o 6'6'–o 6'6' | [......] of large boats |
| Obverse [6:7] o 7'7'–o 7'7' | [......] ..., as many as there are, |
| Obverse [7:8] o 8'8'–o 8'8' | [are ...]. These boats are damaged. |
| Obverse [8:9] o 9'9'–o 9'9' | [......]dadu will return, and |
| Obverse [9:10] o 10'10'–o 10'10' | [......] their [...]. |
| Obverse [10:11] o 11'11'–o 11'11' | Perh[aps the king, my lord, wi]ll say: |
| Obverse [11:12] o 12'12'–o 12'12' | "[... th]ese [boats] |
| Reverse [1:2] r 2'2'–r 2'2' | [......] the stone thres[holds] |
| Reverse [2:4] r 3'3'–r 4'4' | [...... for the wa]tchtowers |
| Reverse [4:9] r 5'5'–r 9'9' | I shall bring across [the thresholds] which [have been deposited on] the river bank, [and ... do] the work on the boats. [Wh]at does the king, my lord, [say]? |
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⸣ man ⸢x⸣+[x x] | |
| 2' | [x x x x x]+⸢x⸣-ni ši-na | |
| 3' | [x x x x]+⸢x KUR⸣-e ša\d-ni-u | |
| 4' | [x x x x x]+⸢x⸣-ha-ni i-sa-hu-ra | |
| 5' | [x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ dan-nu ina {uru}ši-i-me | |
| 6' | [x x x x]-hi ša\d {giš}MA₂-MEŠ KALAG-MEŠ | |
| 7' | [x x x] ⸢ta⸣-ha-ni-šu₂-ni mar ša\d i-ba-⸢šu-ni⸣ | |
| 8' | [x x x x] {giš}MA₂-MEŠ an-na-te pa-a-ṣa | |
| 9' | [x x x]-da-du i-sa-hu-⸢ra⸣ | |
| 10' | [x x x x]-ha-ni-šu₂-nu i—⸢su⸣-[ri] | |
| 11' | [LUGAL be-li₂ i]-qa-bi ma-a [o] | |
| 12' | [x {giš}MA₂-MEŠ an]-⸢na⸣-te [o] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [x x x x x x x x x] ⸢i⸣ [x] | |
| 2' | [x x x x x x x x] {na₄}I.[DIB-MEŠ] | |
| 3' | [x x x x x x x na]-me-⸢ri⸣ | |
| 4' | [x x x x x x x x]-ni | |
| 5' | {[na₄}I.DIB-MEŠ] ša\d [ina] ⸢UGU⸣ ID₂ | |
| 6' | [kar-ra-a-ni] u₂-še-ba-ra | |
| 7' | [x x x x] dul₆-lu ša\td {giš}MA₂-MEŠ | |
| 8' | [e-pa-aš₂ mi]-⸢i⸣-nu ša\d LUGAL be-li₂ | |
| 9' | [i-qa-bu]-⸢ni⸣ | |
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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