CT 53, 196 (P313611)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 196 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313611 |
| 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 |
|---|---|
| Reverse [0:9] r 1r 1–r 99 | And (as to) that man, his whole equipment and his clothes are at his disposal. The king, my lord, wrote to me: "Why do you act arbitrarily?" — (yet) in what resp[ect have] I [acted] arbitrarily? On my life, I [have] not [acted ar]bitrarily [......] |
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 | u₃ am-mi-u₂ | |
| 2 | a-nu-su gab-⸢bu⸣ | |
| 3 | ku-zip-pi-šu₂ ina pa-⸢ni⸣-[šu₂] | |
| 4 | ša LUGAL EN iš-pur-an-[ni] | |
| 5 | ma a-ta-a ki-i ŠA₃-[bi-ka] | |
| 6 | te-pa-aš₂ a-⸢ke⸣-[e] | |
| 7 | ki-i ŠA₃-bi-ia e-[pu-uš] | |
| 8 | TI.LA-u₂-a ⸢šum⸣-[ma] | |
| 9 | [ki-i] ⸢ŠA₃⸣-bi-ia e-[pa-šu₂-ni] | |
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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