CT 53, 051 (P313466)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 051 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313466 |
| 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/saa13 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:3] o 1o 1–o 33 | [T]o the king, my lord: your servant Ubru-ahhe. May Aššur and Ištar bless the king, my lord. |
| Obverse [3:9] o 44–o 99 | The king, my lord, can be very glad indeed. The work which the king, my lord, is assigning therein, the stat[ue .......] |
| Reverse [0:2] r 1'1'–r 2'2' | [......] will glaze [bricks ...] |
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 | ARAD-ka {1}SUHUŠ—PAB-MEŠ | |
| 3 | aš-šur {d}15 a-na LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 4 | lik-ru-bu ŠA₃-bu ša LUGAL | |
| 5 | EN-ia a—dan-niš a—dan-niš lu DUG₃.GA | |
| 6 | dul-lu ša LUGAL be-li₂ | |
| 7 | ina ŠA₃-bi-šu₂ u₂-su-ku-⸢u₂⸣-ni | |
| 8 | ⸢ALAM⸣ [o] ⸢te⸣-bi-⸢x⸣+[x x]-⸢ti⸣-zi | |
| 9 | ⸢x x⸣+[x x x x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x] | |
| 2' | i-ša₂-ha-aṭ [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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