CT 53, 195 (P313610)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 195 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313610 |
| 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 [0:1] o 1'1'–o 1'1' | the jeweller[y ...] |
| Obverse [1:2] o 2'2'–o 2'2' | became ill [...] |
| Obverse [2:4] o 3'3'–o 4'4' | I have appealed [...]; let the k[ing, my lor]d, do as he deems best. |
| Obverse [4:9] o 5'5'–o 9'9' | Should all the hor[ses] that I buy ... under 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' | ⸢du⸣-ma-⸢qi⸣ [x x x] | |
| 2' | in\d-tar-ṣa [x x x] | |
| 3' | a-ta\d-ha-ra ⸢LUGAL⸣ [be-li₂] | |
| 4' | ki ša\dm i-la-u-[ni] | |
| 5' | le\mm-pu\p-šu₂ {anše}⸢KUR⸣-[MEŠ] | |
| 6' | mar a-la-qu-[ni] | |
| 7' | ⸢ša⸣-ba\t-lu-u-⸢ia⸣ | |
| 8' | ⸢li⸣ ka sa ⸢la⸣ [x] | |
| 9' | [x x] a a [x x x] | |
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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