CT 53, 185 (P313600)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 185 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313600 |
| 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/saa01 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [1:6] o 2'2'–o 6'6' | [...]-naṣir is dead; the [...] of the city of ... have fled [...] and are (now) [li]ving at Balṭi-iqbi's. |
| Obverse [6:14] o 7'7'– | Let them make it [...] perfectly clear to Balṭi-iqbi that he should immediately bring forth the [slave]s, give them to his son, and come straight away to me! |
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] ⸢mi⸣ [x x] | |
| 2' | {1}{d}x]—⸢PAB-ir⸣ mi-e-te | |
| 3' | [x x]+⸢x⸣-MEŠ ⸢ša⸣ {uru}⸢sik⸣-ris | |
| 4' | [x x]-šu₂-[nu] ih-ta-⸢la⸣-qu | |
| 5' | [ina pa]-an {1}⸢bal⸣-ṭi—iq\d-bi | |
| 6' | [kam]-⸢mu⸣-su | |
| 7' | [x x]-⸢na⸣-ni bir-te | |
| 8' | [IGI.2-MEŠ] ⸢ša⸣ {1}bal-ṭi—iq\d-bi | |
| r | ||
| 1 | [lu]-⸢ma⸣-di-du | |
| 2 | [x]-⸢MEŠ⸣ ar₂\d-hiš | |
| 3 | [lu]-še-ṣi-a | |
| 4 | [a]-na DUMU-šu₂ lid-din | |
| 5 | [le]-ti\t-qa\d li\d-li\d-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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