CT 53, 123 (P313538)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 123 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313538 |
| 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 [0:6] o 1o 1–o 66 | To the king, [my] lord: your servant Urad-G[ula]. The best of health to the ki[ng, my lord]! [May] Nabû, [Marduk and the g]reat [gods] of heaven [and earth very greatly bless the kin]g, my lord! |
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}ARAD—{d}⸢gu⸣-[la] | |
| 3 | lu-u DI-mu a-na ⸢LUGAL⸣ [be-li₂-ia] | |
| 4 | a—dan-niš {d}PA {d}[AMAR.UTU DINGIR-MEŠ] | |
| 5 | ⸢GAL⸣-MEŠ ša₂ AN-e [u₃ KI.TIM a-na] | |
| 6 | ⸢LUGAL⸣ [be]-⸢li-ia⸣ [a—dan-niš] | |
| e. | ||
| 1 | [x x x x x] ⸢x x⸣-ni | |
| 2 | [x x x x x] ⸢ši⸣-ia-ri | |
| 3 | [x x x x x ne₂-pu]-uš | |
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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