CT 53, 216 (P313631)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 216 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313631 |
| 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/saa16 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:1] o 4'4'–o 4'4' | the chi[ef ......] |
| Obverse [1:2] o 5'5'–o 5'5' | together with [......] |
| Reverse [0:2] r 1'1'–r 2'2' | May [the king, my lord], ask the chief [...]. The king [...]. |
| Reverse [2:3] r 3'3'–r 3'3' | When the city wall [...] |
| Reverse [3:4] r 4'4'–r 4'4' | was damaged [...] |
| Reverse [4:5] r 5'5'–r 5'5' | to fal[l ...] |
| Reverse [5:6] r 6'6'–r 6'6' | the door-beams [...] |
| Reverse [6:9] r 7'7'– | I will do as the kin[g, my lord, commands]. |
| Edge [0:1] e. 1e. 1–e. 1e. 1 | [The king, my lord], can be glad [in]deed. |
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 | ||
| 4' | {⸢lu₂v}GAL⸣—[x x x x x x] | |
| 5' | EN [x x x x x x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | ⸢a-na {lu₂v}GAL⸣—[x x x x] | |
| 2' | liš-al LUGAL [x x x x] | |
| 3' | a-ki BAD₃ ⸢x⸣+[x x x x] | |
| 4' | i-me-ri-du-⸢ni⸣ [x x x] | |
| 5' | a-na ma-qa-⸢te⸣ [x x x x] | |
| 6' | {giš}ŠU₂-MEŠ u₂-[x x x x] | |
| 7' | a-ki ša ⸢LUGAL⸣ [be-li₂ i-qab-bu-ni] | |
| 8' | le-pu-⸢uš⸣ [x x x] | |
| e. | ||
| 1 | [ŠA₃-bu ša LUGAL EN-ia a]—⸢dan⸣-niš lu DUG₃.GA | |
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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