CT 53, 208 (P313623)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 208 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313623 |
| 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 [0:6] o 1o 1–o 66 | [To the king, my lord: your servant] N[abû-pašir]. Goo[d health to the ki[ng, my lord]! May Sin and Nikkal bless the king, my lord! |
| Obverse [6:12] o 77–o 1212 | As to the [capt]ives [whom the king], my lo[rd, sent] to me, [...] to the captiv[es of the king], my lord [...... |
| Reverse [0:3] r 1'1'–r 3'3' | Let the king, my lord, write to me what the [king] commands. |
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}{⸢d⸣}[AG—pa-šir] | |
| 3 | [lu]-u DI-mu a-na ⸢LUGAL⸣ [EN-ia] | |
| 4 | {⸢d⸣}30 u {d}NIN.GAL | |
| 5 | a-na\t LUGAL ⸢EN⸣-ia | |
| 6 | lik-⸢ru-bu⸣ | |
| 7 | [ina] ⸢UGU⸣ [hu-ub\m]-te | |
| 8 | [ša LUGAL be]-li₂ | |
| 9 | [iš-pur]-an-ni\d-ni\d | |
| 10 | [x x a]-na hu-ub\m-[te] | |
| 11 | [ša LUGAL] EN-⸢ia⸣ | |
| 12 | [x x x x]+⸢x⸣ [x] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [mi]-i-nu [ša LUGAL] | |
| 2' | ⸢i⸣-qa\d-bu-u-[ni] | |
| 3' | LUGAL be-li₂ liš\d-pu\p-⸢ra⸣ | |
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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