CT 53, 163 (P313578)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 163 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313578 |
| 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 [0:1] o 1'1'–o 1'1' | [......] what [...] |
| Obverse [1:5] o 2'2'–o 5'5' | ... We made many sacrifices. [The]y went away to their country, (while) [w]e [...ed] hither. |
| Obverse [5:11] o 6'6'– | Their people, [who] had f[led to] Urarṭu, have [like]wise [retu]rned [...] |
| Reverse [0:3] r 66–r 88 | [...... the It]u'eans [...] |
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 x x x x]+⸢x mi-i⸣-nu [x x x] | |
| 2' | [x] ba\t iš ⸢x⸣-nu-ti ma-aʾ-da\d | |
| 3' | {⸢udu⸣}SISKUR-MEŠ ne₂\d-ta\p-pa-aš₂ | |
| 4' | [šu]-⸢nu⸣ a-na KUR-šu₂\d-nu i-ta-⸢ta⸣-ku | |
| 5' | [a-ni]-nu a-ni-ša₂ ⸢x x x⸣ | |
| 6' | [i-se]-niš UN-MEŠ-⸢šu₂-nu⸣ | |
| 7' | [ša a-na] {kur}URI\dd ⸢ih⸣-[li-qu-ni] | |
| b.e. | ||
| 8' | [i-su]-⸢uh⸣-ru\d-[ni x x] | |
| 9' | [x x x]+⸢x⸣ il ⸢x⸣+[x x x] | |
| r | ||
| 6 | [x x x x {lu₂v}i-tu]-ʾa-a.a | |
| 7 | [x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ a | |
| 8 | [x x x x x x x x] ⸢ku⸣ | |
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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