CT 53, 223 (P313638)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 223 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313638 |
| 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/saa13 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:5] o 1o 1–o 55 | To the king, [my] l[ord]: your servant, A[ššur-hamatu'a]. May Aššur and [Ištar] ble[ss] the ki[ng, my lord]. |
| Obverse [5:9] o 66–o 99 | On the 27th day [of Tammuz (IV)], T[ammuz ...]. On the 28th da[y ...] he/they [...] |
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 | a-na LUGAL ⸢EN⸣-[ia] | |
| 2 | ARAD-ka {1}{d}⸢aš⸣-[šur—ha-mat-ia] | |
| 3 | aš-šur {⸢d⸣}15 o] | |
| 4 | a-na ⸢LUGAL⸣ [EN-ia] | |
| 5 | lik-⸢ru⸣-[bu o] | |
| 6 | UD 27-[KAM₂ ša {iti}ŠU] | |
| 7 | {d}[DUMU.ZI x x x] | |
| 8 | UD 28-⸢KAM₂⸣ [x x x x] | |
| 9 | u₂-[x x x x x] | |
Sources & licences
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- 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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