CT 53, 212 (P313627)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 212 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313627 |
| 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 [2:13] o 3'3'– | [While] I was there, I sent two teams of horses to Nemed- Ištar and two to Sinu, but they did not get there. The king my lord will kill me (when) he hears (this). Really [...... |
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 {anše]}⸢BAD-HAL⸣ | |
| 2' | [x x x x] ⸢x⸣+[x] ⸢ni⸣ ša₂ | |
| 3' | ina ⸢ŠA₃⸣-[bi] a-⸢na\td⸣-[ku]-u-ni\d | |
| 4' | 02 {anše}u₂-rat | |
| b.e. | ||
| 5' | a-na\td {uru}ne₂\d-med—15 | |
| r | ||
| 1 | 02 a-na\td {uru}⸢si-ni⸣ | |
| 2 | u₂-se-bi-li\d | |
| 3 | la ik-šu-da\d | |
| 4 | LUGAL EN iš-ša₂-me | |
| 5 | ⸢i⸣-du-kan-ni | |
| 6 | [x x x] i-ba-⸢aš₂⸣-[ši] | |
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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