CT 53, 177 (P313592)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 177 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313592 |
| 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 [0:1] o 1'1'–o 1'1' | [......] divination |
| Obverse [1:2] o 2'2'–o 2'2' | [......] and because of your truthfulness |
| Obverse [2:3] o 3'3'–o 3'3' | [......] you believed; also, concerning |
| Obverse [3:4] o 4'4'–o 4'4' | [......] a proverb [runs a]s follows |
| Obverse [4:6] o 5'5'– | [......] Sumer believed |
| Bottom [0:1] b.e. 6'b.e. 6'–b.e. 6'b.e. 6' | [......] my heart. In that you believed |
| Bottom [1:3] b.e. 7'7'– | [......] I said: "He should know!" Wholeheartedly |
| Reverse [0:1] r 1r 1–r 1r 1 | [......] Is mangu skin disease an advantage? |
| Reverse [1:2] r 22–r 22 | [......] Now, in accordance with |
| Reverse [2:3] r 33–r 33 | [the instructions which the] king, my lord, sent to me, |
| Reverse [3:4] r 44–r 44 | [......] I am completing |
| Reverse [4:5] r 55–r 55 | [...... the king], my [lord], said |
| Reverse [6:7] r 77–r 77 | [......] your mangu skin disease |
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 x x x] bi-i-ru | |
| 2' | [x x x x x] ⸢u₃⸣ aš₂-šu₂ ke-e-na-ti-ka | |
| 3' | [x x x x x] ta-qip-u-ni u₃ ina UGU | |
| 4' | [x x x x ki]-i an-ni-i ti-il-tu₂ | |
| 5' | [x x x x] ⸢KUR⸣—šu-me-ru it-ta-qip | |
| b.e. | ||
| 6' | [x x x] ŠA₃-ia ina ša ta-qip-u-ni | |
| 7' | [x x]+⸢x⸣ mu-uk lu-u-da ina gu-um ŠA₃-⸢ia₂⸣ | |
| r | ||
| 1 | [x x x] ⸢man⸣-gu-u šu-u tu-mu-lu i-⸢ba⸣-ši | |
| 2 | [x x x x x x]-⸢li⸣ u₂-ma-a ina pu-ut | |
| 3 | [x x x x x ša] ⸢LUGAL⸣ be-li iš-pur-an-ni | |
| 4 | [x x x x x x x x] us-sa-na-lam | |
| 5 | [x x x x x LUGAL be]-⸢li⸣ iq-ṭi-bi | |
| 6 | [x x x x x x x x] lu-u pa-ha-aš₂-šu₂ | |
| 7 | [x x x x x x x x x x] ⸢man⸣-gi-ka | |
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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