CT 53, 198 (P313613)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 198 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313613 |
| 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 [0:8] 1'1'–8'8' | [about which the king, my] lo[rd, wrote] to [me]: "Why [did you] send those [...]?" — I am now dispatching a letter. |
| Obverse [8:9] 9'9'–9'9' | Nabû-bal[liṭ the] wine [mast]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) |
|---|---|---|
| 1' | [ša LUGAL] be-[li₂] | |
| 2' | [iš-pur]-an-[ni] | |
| 3' | [ma]-⸢a⸣ mi-[i-nu] | |
| 4' | [x]-pa-qi₂-[x] | |
| 5' | ⸢am⸣-ma-te | |
| 6' | [taš]-pu-ra | |
| 7' | ⸢u₂⸣-ma-a e-gir₂-tu₂ | |
| 8' | u₂-se-⸢bi⸣-la | |
| 9' | {1}{⸢d⸣}PA—⸢TIN⸣-[iṭ {lu₂v]}⸢GAL⸣—GEŠTIN {lu₂v]}⸢GAL⸣—GEŠTIN |
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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