CT 53, 217 (P313632)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 217 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313632 |
| 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/saa15 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:10] o 1'1'– | [These] c[ap]tives in Arrapha [...] are 4,100 in number. I asked [NN] and L[ansî] (who said): "[There are] 1,000 k[ing's] men among them." Their watch is v[ery] strict. |
| Bottom [1:11] b.e. 10'10'– | And right now the chief eu[nuch] will go [wi]th them to Urz[uhina]. He is reviewing [them]. Befo[re they go], Lan[sî ...] in the pres[ence of ...] |
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' | {⸢lu₂v⸣}[hu]-⸢ub\d⸣-tu₂ [an-ni-u] | |
| 2' | ina {uru}arrap-ha [x x x] | |
| 3' | 04 lim 01 me šu₂-nu [a-na {1}x x x] | |
| 4' | u₃ a-na\t {1}⸢la⸣-[an-si-i] | |
| 5' | a-sa-al ma-[a x x x] | |
| 6' | 01 lim {lu₂v}ERIM-MEŠ\tm—⸢LUGAL⸣ {lu₂v}ERIM-MEŠ\tm—⸢LUGAL⸣ | |
| 7' | i-na ŠA₃-bi [šu-nu] | |
| 8' | EN.NUN\m-šu₂-nu a—[dan-niš] | |
| b.e. | ||
| 9' | dan-na-⸢at⸣ | |
| 10' | u₃ an-nu-⸢rig⸣ | |
| r | ||
| 1 | {⸢lu₂v⸣}GAL—⸢SAG⸣ {⸢lu₂v⸣}GAL—⸢SAG⸣ | |
| 2 | [is]-se-e-šu₂-⸢nu⸣ | |
| 3 | a-na\y {uru}ur-⸢zu⸣-[hi-na] | |
| 4 | il-la-[ka] | |
| 5 | e-šar\p-[šu₂-nu] | |
| 6 | i—pa-⸢na⸣-[tu₂-šu₂-nu] i—pa-⸢na⸣-[tu₂-šu₂-nu] | |
| 7 | {1}la-an-[si-i x x] | |
| 8 | ina pa-⸢an⸣ [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
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