CT 53, 121 (P313536)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 121 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313536 |
| 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 [0:7] o 1'1'–o 7'7' | A citizen of [Ba]bylo[n ca]lled [NN] told me [as] follows: "[Now t]hen the king of Elam [...] is coming [to Ba]bylon; [regarding the p]relacy, either the prel[ate ... |
Transliteration (ATF)
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| Line | ATF | Machine English (draft) |
|---|---|---|
| o | ||
| 1' | [x x]+⸢x⸣+[x x x x] a ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x] | |
| 2' | [i-qab]-bu-niš-šu₂ DUMU [KA₂].DINGIR.⸢RA⸣{[ki]} | |
| 3' | [ki-i] an-ni-i iq-ṭi-bi-a ⸢ma⸣-[a u₂-ma-a] | |
| 4' | [an]-⸢nu⸣-rig LUGAL {kur}NIM.MA{⸢ki⸣} [x x x] | |
| 5' | [ina KA₂].DINGIR.RA{ki} il-la-ka ma-[a x x x] | |
| 6' | {[lu₂v]}⸢ŠA₃⸣.TAM-mu-ti šum₂-ma {lu₂v}ŠA₃.⸢TAM⸣ [x x] | |
| 7' | [x x x] ⸢x x⸣ i ⸢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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