CT 53, 202 (P313617)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 202 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313617 |
| 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 [1:8] o 2'2'– | "[O]n the day when [Be]l-ila'i and Apl[aya bring the dependents] who [have been b]ought for money now, along with the (dependents) of [tho]se capti[ves] who [fe]ll to me from Arraph[a] |
| Reverse [0:1] r 1r 1–r 1r 1 | [...] Arrapha [...] |
| Reverse [1:2] r 22–r 22 | [...] ... two [...] |
| Reverse [2:3] r 33–r 33 | [...] will lea[ve ...] |
| Reverse [3:4] r 44–r 44 | [I ques]tioned [them] |
| Reverse [4:5] r 55–r 55 | [They said: "The da]y that [...] |
| Reverse [5:6] r 66–r 66 | [...] Apl[aya] |
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' | [x x x x]-u₂\m i-⸢da⸣-[x] | |
| 2' | [ma-a] ⸢ina⸣ ŠA₃-bi UD-mu ⸢ša⸣ | |
| 3' | {1}{d]}⸢EN⸣—DINGIR-a.a {1}DUMU.⸢UŠ⸣-[a.a] | |
| 4' | [ZI-MEŠ] ša u₂\m-ma-a ina kas-pi | |
| 5' | [la]-⸢qi⸣-u-ni a-di ša\p hu\d-ub\m-[te] | |
| 6' | [am]-⸢mu⸣-te ša\p TA@v\m ŠA₃ {uru}arrap-⸢ha⸣ | |
| 7' | [in]-⸢qa⸣-tu₂-ni-ni | |
| r | ||
| 1 | [x {uru]}arrap-ha a [x x x] | |
| 2 | [x x x]+⸢x⸣-u-ni 02 {⸢lu₂v⸣}[x x] | |
| 3 | [x x x] ⸢u₂⸣-ra-am-[ma] | |
| 4 | [a-sa]-ʾa-al-[šu₂-nu] | |
| 5 | [ma-a UD]-⸢mu⸣ ša\p ⸢x⸣+[x x] | |
| 6 | [x x x x]+⸢x⸣ {1}⸢DUMU⸣.[UŠ-a.a] | |
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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