CT 53, 204 (P313619)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 204 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313619 |
| 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/saa05 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:3] o 1o 1–o 33 | [To the king, my lord: y]our [servant] Di[nanu. Good] health to the k[ing, my lord]! |
| Obverse [3:8] o 44–o 88 | [As to what the ki]ng, my lord, [wro]te me last y[ear], the eunu[ch about whom] the king, my lord, said: "[Appoint ...] to his service!" — Išme-ilu [is now] in [his] service. |
| Obverse [8:9] o 99–o 99 | When [......] |
| Reverse [3:4] r 4'4'–r 4'4' | [the Bu]susean(s) [...] |
| Reverse [4:5] r 5'5'–r 5'5' | [... o]f Bi[rate] |
| Reverse [5:7] r 6'6'–r 7'7' | [...] enter [...] |
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 | [a-na LUGAL EN-ia] | |
| 2 | [ARAD]-⸢ka⸣ {1}di-[na-nu] | |
| 3 | [lu-u DI]-mu\p a-na\d ⸢LUGAL⸣ [EN-ia] | |
| 4 | [ša] ⸢LUGAL⸣ be-li₂ iš\d—šad-[dag-diš] iš\d—šad-[dag-diš] | |
| 5 | [iš]-⸢pur⸣-ni-ni {lu₂vy}⸢SAG⸣ | |
| 6 | [ša] LUGAL be-li₂ iq-bu\p-[u-ni] | |
| 7 | ⸢ma⸣-a i—pa-ni-šu₂ i—pa-ni-šu₂ [x x x] | |
| 8 | {1}iš-me—DINGIR ina ⸢pa-ni⸣-[x x] | |
| 9 | ⸢ki⸣-i [x x x x x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [x x x] ⸢kas ru\d⸣ [x x x] | |
| 2' | [x x x]-ṭu-ru\d ⸢GU₂⸣ [x x] | |
| 3' | [x x x]-tar-ra ri [x x] | |
| 4' | [x x] ⸢su⸣-sa-a.a ⸢x⸣+[x x x] | |
| 5' | [x x x] ⸢ša\ym⸣ {kur}⸢bir\p⸣-[a-te] | |
| 6' | [x x x] ⸢e-ru\d-bu⸣ [x x] | |
| 7' | [x x 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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