CT 53, 084 (P313499)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 084 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313499 |
| 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 |
|---|---|
| Reverse [0:5] r 1r 1–r 55 | [The verdict of the mother of the king, my lord], is as final as that of the gods. What you bless, is blessed; what you curse, is cursed. |
| Reverse [5:8] r 66–r 88 | Concerning what the mother of the k[ing], my lord, wrote to me: "What [...] |
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) |
|---|---|---|
| r | ||
| 1 | [ki]-i ša DINGIR-MEŠ ga-mir | |
| 2 | ⸢be₂⸣-et ta-kar-ri-bi-ni | |
| 3 | ka-ri-ib | |
| 4 | E₂ ta-na-zi-ri-ni | |
| 5 | na-zi-ir | |
| 6 | ina UGU ša AMA—⸢LUGAL⸣ AMA—⸢LUGAL⸣ | |
| 7 | ⸢be⸣-li₂ iš-pur-an-[ni] | |
| 8 | [ma]-⸢a⸣ mi₃-⸢i-nu x⸣+[x x] | |
Sources & licences
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