CT 53, 234 (P313649)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 234 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313649 |
| 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/saa10 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:1] o 1'1'–o 1'1' | [May Nabû and Marduk bles]s [the king]! |
| Obverse [1:10] o 2'2'– | We kept wa[tch on the 29th day]; there were clouds, and we did not see the moon. T[od]ay, on the 30th, there were c[lou]ds again; when they di[spersed], we saw [the mo]on. [It] was [(not) like the] moon of the 29[th day]. Three days [...]. |
| Reverse [0:3] r 1'r 1'–r 3'3' | Per[haps ...] ... [...] |
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—dan-niš lik-ru]-⸢bu⸣ | |
| 2' | ⸢ma⸣-[ṣar]-⸢tu₂ ša₂⸣ {d}30 | |
| 3' | ni-ta-ṣar IM.DIRI {d}30 | |
| 4' | la ne₂-mur UD-[mu an]-ni-[u] | |
| 5' | UD 30-KAM₂\t ⸢IM⸣.[DIRI]-⸢ma⸣ | |
| 6' | ki-ma ip-[ta-šar {d]}30 | |
| 7' | ne₂-ta-⸢mar⸣ <[la> a-ki {d]}30 | |
| 8' | ša₂ UD 29-[KAM₂\t šu]-u | |
| 9' | UD 03-KAM₂\t ⸢x⸣+[x x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | is—[su-ri x x x x] | |
| 2' | E₂ [x x x x x x] | |
| 3' | ⸢x⸣+[x x 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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