CT 53, 214 (P313629)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 214 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313629 |
| 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 [1:7] o 2'2'– | I have appointed [......] of Isana. All is well, nobody is missing. 30 courses of bricks of the akitu chapel were laid on the 3rd. |
| Reverse [1:9] r 22–r 99 | The king my lord knows that I have no grain stores. I would like to appoint my major-domo with [my] (other) offici[als] so I could go and [...] grain stores [... |
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' | ša\dm {uruy}i-⸢sa⸣-[na] | |
| 2' | ap-ti\t-qi-[di] | |
| 3' | DI\d-mu a—dan\d-[niš] | |
| 4' | 01-en la i-⸢ma⸣-[ṭi] | |
| 5' | 30 ti\t-⸢ik⸣-[pi] | |
| 6' | ša\dm {e₂}a-⸢ki⸣-[ti] | |
| r | ||
| 1 | UD 03-KAM₂ ⸢kar⸣-[ru] | |
| 2 | LUGAL\y be-li₂ ⸢u₂⸣-[da] | |
| 3 | ka-ru-a-ni-ia ⸢la⸣-[aš₂-šu₂] | |
| 4 | {lu₂v}GAL\p—E₂-⸢ia⸣ {lu₂v}GAL\p—E₂-⸢ia⸣ | |
| 5 | TA@v\m {lu₂v}EN—pi-qi-⸢ta⸣-[ti] {lu₂v}EN—pi-qi-⸢ta⸣-[ti] | |
| 6 | la-ap-qi-⸢di⸣ | |
| 7 | ⸢a⸣-na-ku la-al-[lik] | |
| 8 | ⸢ka⸣-ru-⸢a⸣-[ni] | |
| 9 | [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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