CT 53, 186 (P313601)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 186 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313601 |
| 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/saa15 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [2:8] o 3'3'– | They will be [in Ca]lah on the 16th day. [The ... ...]ed the work, (but) they have finished their [w]ork. |
| Reverse [0:10] r 1r 1–r 1010 | [Concerning wh]at the king, my lord, wrote to me: "The son of Yakin has written to the king of Elam: 'The king of Assyria [is ma]rching aga[inst me]. You, [... a messeng]er [...]'" |
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]-ru | |
| 2' | [x x x x] ⸢x⸣ [x x]+⸢x⸣ TA@v\m | |
| 3' | [x x x]-su UD-mu UD 16-KAM₂\tm | |
| 4' | [ina {uru]}⸢kal⸣-ha šu-nu | |
| 5' | [x x-MEŠ] dul\y-lu | |
| 6' | [u₂-ta]-li\d-i | |
| 7' | ⸢dul⸣-la-šu-nu ig\d-da\d-ma-ru\d | |
| r | ||
| 1 | ⸢ša⸣ LUGAL be-li₂ iš\d-pur-an-ni | |
| 2 | [ma]-a DUMU—{1}ia-ki-nu | |
| 3 | [a]-na LUGAL\t {kur}NIM.⸢MA⸣ | |
| 4 | ⸢i⸣-sa-par ma-a [o o] | |
| 5 | LUGAL\t KUR—aš-šur ina ⸢UGU⸣-[hi-ia₂ il]-lak\y-an-ni | |
| 6 | [ma]-⸢a⸣ at-⸢ta⸣ {[lu₂v}A]—⸢KIN⸣ {[lu₂v}A]—⸢KIN⸣ | |
| 7 | [x x]+⸢x x⸣+[x x x x]+⸢x⸣ | |
| 8 | [x x x x x x x] | |
| 9 | [x x x x x x x] | |
| 10 | [x x x x x x] ⸢šu⸣ | |
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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