CT 53, 188 (P313603)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 188 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313603 |
| 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 |
|---|---|
| Reverse [0:1] r 1'1'–r 1'1' | [...] Adia [...] |
| Reverse [1:3] r 2'2'–r 3'3' | [There are x sto]ne cutters. The dyers have [beg]un to dye. |
| Reverse [3:6] r 4'4'–r 6'6' | As to the the work of Dur-Šarruken, we have brought out the local population by villages; they will produce the bricks. |
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) |
|---|---|---|
| r | ||
| 1' | [x x x {uru]}⸢a-di-a din x⸣ [x] | |
| 2' | [x {lu₂]}⸢BUR⸣.GUL-MEŠ ina UGU ṣi-pi [o] | |
| 3' | [iq]-⸢ṭar⸣-bu {lu₂}ṣa-pu-u | |
| 4' | i-na UGU dul-li\d ša\yd {uru}BAD₃\p—MAN—GIN | |
| 5' | ⸢URU⸣-MEŠ-ni\d ša\d UN-MEŠ\p KUR | |
| 6' | nu-se-ṣi SIG₄ u₂\m-qar\d-ru-bu | |
Sources & licences
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- 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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