CT 53, 222 (P313637)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 222 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313637 |
| 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 [2:3] o 3'3'–o 3'3' | [......] b[o]rder |
| Obverse [3:4] o 4'4'–o 4'4' | [......] of [...] |
| Reverse [2:3] r 33–r 33 | [......] the king's [w]ork |
| Reverse [3:4] r 44–r 44 | [......] let him live there |
| Reverse [4:5] r 55–r 55 | [......] and the people of the country |
| Reverse [5:7] r 66–r 77 | [......] the work voluntarily |
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' | [x x x x x x x] ⸢ak x⸣ | |
| 3' | [x x x x] ⸢x x⸣ [ta]-⸢hu⸣-me | |
| 4' | [x x x x] ⸢ša\ym x x⸣ [x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1 | [x x x x x x x x] | |
| 2 | [x x x x x x x]-nu | |
| 3 | [x x x x] ⸢dul⸣-lu\m ⸢ša LUGAL⸣ | |
| 4 | [x x x x x]-a ina ⸢ŠA₃⸣ lu-ši-bi | |
| 5 | [x x x x x] u₃ UN-MEŠ\m KUR | |
| 6 | [x x x x x] dul-lu\m ⸢ki-i ŠA₃-bi⸣-šu₂-nu | |
| 7 | [x x x x x] ⸢x x⸣ [x x x]-MEŠ\tm | |
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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