CT 53, 085 (P313500)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 085 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313500 |
| 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 [0:3] o 1'1'–o 3'3' | [As to what the king, my lord, wrote me]: "[Your troops] should be as[sembled; come to me, quickly] — |
| Obverse [3:8] o 4'4'–o 8'8' | [the ki]ng, my lord, knows that all my troops are around the ci[ty]; they can be assembled within three [days]. |
| Obverse [8:17] o 9'9'– | I have appointed [...]; m[y] major-domo [will] ass[emble] the troops, and I [shall] co[ver] in one day the st[retch f]rom the city [... to ...]. |
| Reverse [0:1] r 1r 1–r 1r 1 | [The k]ing, my lord, should give [orders that ...] |
| Reverse [1:5] r 22–r 55 | [the wo]rk on [......] |
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' | ⸢ma⸣-a [e-mu-qi-ka] | |
| 2' | ⸢lu⸣-u pu-[uh-ru ar₂-hiš] | |
| 3' | <$ina pa-ni-ia al-ka$> | |
| 4' | ⸢LUGAL⸣ be-li₂ u₂\p-da\d | |
| 5' | ⸢e⸣-mu-qi\t-ia gab-⸢bu⸣ | |
| 6' | ⸢ba⸣-ta-ba-ti\t ša\ym ⸢URU⸣ | |
| 7' | šu-nu ina ŠA₃-bi 03 [UD-MEŠ] | |
| 8' | i-pa-hu\d-ru\d [x x] | |
| 9' | ap-ti\t-⸢qi\t⸣-di [x x] | |
| 10' | {lu₂vy}GAL—E₂-⸢ia⸣ {lu₂vy}GAL—E₂-⸢ia⸣ | |
| 11' | e-mu-qi\tm u₂\p-⸢pa⸣-[har] | |
| 12' | [ana]-ku 01 UD-me mar-[di-tu₂] | |
| 13' | ⸢TA⸣ ŠA₃ {uru}[x x x] | |
| b.e. | ||
| 14' | ⸢lal⸣-li\tt-[ka x x] | |
| 15' | [x x x x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1 | ⸢LUGAL⸣ be-li₂ [ṭe₃-e-mu] | |
| 2 | ⸢liš\d⸣-kun [x x x x] | |
| 3 | [dul]-lu ina ⸢UGU⸣ [x x x] | |
| 4 | [x x] ra [x x x x] | |
| 5 | [x x x]+⸢x x⸣+[x 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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