CT 53, 170 (P313585)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 170 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313585 |
| 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 [0:6] o 1'1'–o 6'6' | E[...], a subordinate of A[riye], and Babisu[...], a subordinate of Ariaz[â]; he did not capture th[em] in the mountain [......] |
| Reverse [0:4] r 1'1'–r 4'4' | [They] have been arrested ... [...], and I am herewith sending [them] to the king, [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' | {1}⸢e⸣-[x x x x] | |
| 2' | ša\yd ŠU {1}⸢a⸣-[ri-e] | |
| 3' | {1}ba-bi-⸢su⸣-[x] | |
| 4' | ša\yd ŠU {1}a-ri-a-⸢za⸣-[a] | |
| 5' | la-a ina KUR-e [o] | |
| 6' | ⸢i⸣-ṣa-ba-⸢su⸣-[nu] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [x] ⸢ta bi⸣ [x x x] | |
| 2' | i-ṣa-ab-⸢tu⸣-[šu₂-nu] | |
| 3' | a-na\t UGU LUGAL [EN-ia] | |
| 4' | u₂-se-bi-la-[šu₂-nu] | |
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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