CT 53, 100 (P313515)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 100 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313515 |
| 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/saa15 · 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 Šarru-emuranni. Good health to the king, my lord! |
| Obverse [3:12] o 44–o 1212 | Nabû-ereš the brother of Nabû-le'i, accompanied by 15 citizens of Borsippa, came to Sippar into my presence on the 14th of Shebat (XI). [They] have previously [not] visited the Palace [of] Nineveh. |
| Obverse [12:14] o 1313–o 1414 | [...]s (and) [...] men |
| Reverse [0:3] r 1'1'–r 3'3' | [Now] t[hen, should] they [c]ome [to the Pa]lace? |
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] be-li₂-ia | |
| 2 | ARAD-ka {1}MAN—IGI.LAL-an-ni | |
| 3 | lu\m-u DI-mu a-na LUGAL\d be-li₂-ia₂ | |
| 4 | {1}{d}PA—APIN-eš PAB-šu₂ | |
| 5 | ša\tdm {1}{d}PA—ZU šu-u₂ | |
| 6 | u₃ 15 {⸢lu₂v⸣}DUMU-MEŠ—BAR₂\t.SIPA{ki} {⸢lu₂v⸣}DUMU-MEŠ—BAR₂\t.SIPA{ki} | |
| 7 | is-se-e-šu₂ UD 14-KAM₂\t | |
| 8 | ša\tdm {itim}ZIZ₂ a-na {uru}si-pur\dp | |
| 9 | ina pa-<ne₂>-e-a it-tal-ku-nu | |
| 10 | [šu₂-nu] a-na E₂.GAL | |
| 11 | [ša] {⸢uru⸣}NINA la ih-ru-pu | |
| 12 | [la] ⸢il⸣-lik-u-⸢ni⸣ | |
| 13 | [x x]-MEŠ {lu₂v}[x x x] | |
| 14 | [x x x] x [x x x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [u₂-ma-a] ⸢an⸣-[nu-rig] | |
| 2' | [ina E₂].GAL [o] | |
| 3' | [lil]-lik-u-ne₂-[e] | |
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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