CT 53, 207 (P313622)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 207 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313622 |
| 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 [1:2] o 2'2'–o 2'2' | [...] to my eunuch |
| Obverse [2:3] o 3'3'–o 3'3' | [...] ... they sent to me: |
| Obverse [3:4] o 4'4'–o 4'4' | "[... peop]le from among us |
| Obverse [4:7] o 5'5'–o 7'7' | "[...] to the Palace |
| Reverse [1:2] r 2'2'–r 2'2' | "[...]. W[e are] the king's [servants]." |
| Reverse [2:3] r 3'3'–r 3'3' | [Now then] they are on their way [to the king], my [lo]rd. |
| Reverse [3:4] r 4'4'–r 4'4' | [Whatever] their [......] |
| Reverse [4:5] r 5'5'–r 5'5' | [...... let] them speak |
| Reverse [5:6] r 6'6'–r 6'6' | [......] their people |
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 x]+⸢x x⸣+[x x x]-ni\d | |
| 2' | [x x x]+⸢x x⸣-lu a-na\d {lu₂v}SAG-ia | |
| 3' | [x x x] ⸢i⸣ ṣa ni i-sa-ap-ru-ni\d | |
| 4' | [ma-a UN]-MEŠ\t TA@v\m ŠA₃-bi-ni | |
| 5' | [x x x]-ni ma-a ina E₂.⸢GAL x x⸣ | |
| 6' | [x x x] ⸢li⸣-di\d [x x x x] | |
| 7' | [x x x x x] ⸢x ni⸣ [x x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [x x x x x]-⸢ta-rab⸣ [x x] | |
| 2' | [x x x ARAD-MEŠ] ⸢ša⸣ LUGAL a-[ni-ni] | |
| 3' | [an-nu-rig ina UGU LUGAL] ⸢EN⸣-ia₂ i-tal-ku-ni | |
| 4' | [x x x x x x]-e-ša₂-nu-ni | |
| 5' | [x x x x x x] ⸢lid⸣-di\d-bu\p-bu | |
| 6' | [x x x x x x] ⸢UN⸣-MEŠ-⸢šu₂⸣-nu | |
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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