CT 53, 165 (P313580)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 165 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313580 |
| 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/saa13 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:4] o 1o 1–o 44 | [To the kin]g, [my] l[ord: your servant, NN. Good health to the king, my] lo[rd] — an abun[dance o]f [good health]. |
| Obverse [4:10] o 55–o 1010 | [Concern]ing the stones for the hair and chins [of] the statues, [about which the kin]g, my lord, [wr]ote to me, the old [stones ...] |
| Reverse [1:3] r 2'2'–r 3'3' | I have sent [...] to the king, [my] lo[rd]. |
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}x x x x] | |
| 3 | [lu DI-mu a-na] ⸢LUGAL EN⸣-[ia] | |
| 4 | [x x x]+⸢x⸣ a—⸢dan⸣-[niš] | |
| 5 | [ina] ⸢UGU⸣ NA₄ ⸢SIG₂-a-te⸣ | |
| 6 | ⸢NA₄⸣ zu-qa-a-te | |
| 7 | [ša] ṣa-lam-a-ni | |
| 8 | [ša] ⸢LUGAL⸣ be-li | |
| 9 | [iš]-⸢pur⸣-an-ni | |
| 10 | [NA₄-MEŠ] ⸢la⸣-bir-⸢a⸣-te | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [x x]+⸢x⸣ na ⸢x⸣+[x x x x] | |
| 2' | ⸢a⸣-na LUGAL be-[li-ia] | |
| 3' | u₂-se-bi-la | |
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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