CT 53, 210 (P313625)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 210 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313625 |
| 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 [5:6] o 6'6'–o 6'6' | carries [......] |
| Obverse [6:7] o 7'7'–o 7'7' | brought out [......] |
| Obverse [7:8] o 8'8'–o 8'8' | [aler]ted the forts. |
| Obverse [8:9] o 9'9'–o 9'9' | [I sa]w him and retur[ned] |
| Reverse [0:4] r 1r 1–r 44 | I went [t]o Ša-Aššur-dubb[u]; the ci[ty] was taken in [my] presence, and they brought garrison troop[s] into it. |
| Reverse [4:5] r 55–r 55 | [The tr]oops inside their country are mo[bilized and as]sembled. |
| Reverse [5:10] r 66–r 1010 | As for me, I did throw the log[s] into the river. Downstream from Eziat, past [which] I float [the logs], there are tr[oops ...] |
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] | |
| 2' | {⸢lu₂vy⸣}[x x x x x x x] | |
| 3' | ⸢x⸣ [x x x x x x x] | |
| 4' | ⸢ar⸣-[x x x x x x x] | |
| 5' | {lu₂vy}[x x x x x x x] | |
| 6' | i-za-bil-<u>-ni [x x x x] | |
| 7' | u₂-se-ṣi [x x x x] | |
| 8' | {⸢uru⸣}HAL.ṢU-MEŠ uh-⸢tar⸣-[rid] | |
| 9' | [a-ta]-⸢mar⸣-šu₂\d a-⸢suh⸣-[ra] | |
| 10' | [x x x] ⸢ta⸣ a [x x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1 | [ina] ⸢UGU⸣ {1}ša₂—aš-šur—du-⸢bu⸣ | |
| 2 | at-tal-ka ina pa-na\y-tu₂-u-[a] | |
| 3 | ⸢URU⸣ ṣa-bit {lu₂vy}ša\ydm—HAL.ṢU-[MEŠ] | |
| 4 | ina ⸢ŠA₃-bi⸣ u₂-se-ri-bu | |
| 5 | {[lu₂vy}e-mu]-⸢qi⸣ ŠA₃\p KUR-šu₂-nu ⸢da⸣-[ki-u] | |
| 6 | [pu]-⸢uh⸣-ru a-na-ku\m {giš}⸢UR₃⸣-[MEŠ] | |
| 7 | ⸢i-ba⸣-ši ina ID₂\t ak\t-⸢tar⸣-[ra] | |
| 8 | ša₂-pal {⸢uru⸣}e-zi-at ša₂ {[giš}UR₃-MEŠ] | |
| 9 | u₂-še-taq-u-ni {lu₂vy}e-[mu-qi] | |
| 10 | ina ŠA₃-bi [x x x x x x] | |
Sources & licences
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