CT 53, 045 (P313460)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 045 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313460 |
| 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 [0:2] o 1'1'–o 2'2' | [May Nabû and Marduk bles]s [the king], my lo[rd]! |
| Obverse [2:9] o 3'3'– | They watched the moon; the clouds were dense, and the moon was not seen. The 30th day became 'long.' |
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 LUGAL] ⸢EN⸣-ia | |
| 2' | [lik-ru]-⸢bu⸣ | |
| 3' | [UD 30-KAM₂] EN.NUN | |
| 4' | [ša] DINGIR i-ta-ṣa-ru | |
| 5' | ⸢IM⸣.DIRI dan-nat | |
| 6' | ⸢DINGIR⸣ la-a na-mur | |
| r | ||
| 1 | ⸢UD⸣ 30-⸢KAM₂⸣ | |
| 2 | ⸢e⸣-ti-ri-ik | |
Sources & licences
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