CT 53, 199 (P313614)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 199 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313614 |
| 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/saa01 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [1:9] o 2'2'–o 9'9' | ......] the son of [......] 200 m[en ...] of Tarṣ[i-...] a kin[sman of ...] are indeed [...] at the foot of [Mt. ...]; stranglers [......] in Mt. Nipur. |
| Obverse [9:21] o 10'10'– | Ammili'ti [...] is encamped outside the city of Rablâ, pestilence-stricken. He came to see me and I [asked him]: "Did [...] really come from [......? Let ...] come to me, I shall not place [...] in it." |
| Reverse [6:10] r 77–r 1010 | What the king [......] a messenger [...... |
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' | ⸢i⸣-[x x x x x x] | |
| 2' | DUMU [x x x x x x] | |
| 3' | 02 me {⸢lu₂vy⸣}[ERIM-MEŠ x x] | |
| 4' | ša\d {1}⸢LAL⸣-[x x x x x] | |
| 5' | {lu₂vy}qi\mm-⸢in⸣-[nu x x x x] | |
| 6' | ina še-pi-ti ša\m {[kur}x x x] | |
| 7' | i-ba-aš₂-ši ⸢x⸣+[x x x x] | |
| 8' | {lu₂vy}ha-ni-qi₂ i-[x x x x] | |
| 9' | ina {kur}ni-pu-ri\d [x x x] | |
| 10' | {1}a-mi—li\d-iʾ-ti ⸢a⸣-[x x] | |
| b.e. | ||
| 11' | ⸢ina⸣ ša mu-ta-[ni] | |
| 12' | ina qa\d-a-ni {uru}rab-la-a [o] | |
| 13' | ša₂-ki-ni ina UGU-[hi-ia] | |
| r | ||
| 1 | i-tal\d-ka a-[sa-ʾa-al-šu₂] | |
| 2 | mu-ku i-ba-[aš₂-ši-i] | |
| 3 | TA@v\m ŠA₃ a-la-[x x x x] | |
| 4 | i-tal-ka a-[x x x x] | |
| 5 | li-li\d-ku\m-u-ni [x x x] | |
| 6 | ina ŠA₃-bi la a-ša₂-[kan x x] | |
| 7 | ša\m ⸢LUGAL⸣ [x x x x x] | |
| 8 | {lu₂vy}A—KIN\m {lu₂vy}A—KIN\m ⸢ina⸣ [x x x x] | |
| 9 | u₂\p-ba-[x x x x x] | |
| 10 | ma-a [x x x 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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