CT 53, 117 (P313532)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 117 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313532 |
| 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 [0:1] o 1'1'–o 1'1' | [The ... of the king, my lord, is a [...]. |
| Obverse [1:7] o 2'2'–o 7'7' | Now, th[en], the deeds of the king, [my lord], are like those of (the sage) Adapa. [Let the king, my lord], write wh]at has not been listed [...] |
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' | [x x] ⸢LUGAL⸣ be-li₂-ia ⸢ta⸣-[x x x] | |
| 2' | [šu]-u₂ u₂-ma-a an-⸢nu⸣-[rig] | |
| 3' | ep-še-e-tu ša LUGAL [EN-ia] | |
| 4' | ⸢a⸣-na ša a-da-pi muš-[la] | |
| 5' | ⸢ša⸣ la-a sa-di-ru-u-[ni] | |
| 6' | [LUGAL be-li₂] ⸢liš⸣-pu-⸢ra⸣ | |
| 7' | [x x x]-u-ni ma-ṣar-[tu] | |
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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