CT 53, 235 (P313650)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 235 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313650 |
| 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 [0:6] o 1o 1–o 66 | [To the king, my lord]: your [serv]ant, [NN]. May Aššur, Iš[tar], Bel, and Na[bû] bless the king, my lord. |
| Obverse [6:14] o 77– | The work/ritual which the king, my lord, assigned to me has been completed. I have looked to the matter of the king, my lord. [L]et the [...] en[ter the ...]. |
| Bottom [1:4] b.e. 1414– | (b.e. 14) (Break) |
| Reverse [1:3] r 22–r 33 | [L]et him perform his [...]. |
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}⸢x⸣+[x x x x] | |
| 3 | aš-šur {d}IŠ.[TAR] | |
| 4 | {d}EN {d}⸢AG⸣ | |
| 5 | a-na LUGAL EN-⸢ia⸣ | |
| 6 | lik-ru-bu | |
| 7 | dul-lu ša LUGAL be-li | |
| 8 | ina pa-ni-ia ip-qid-du-ni | |
| 9 | ga-am-ri | |
| 10 | ⸢a⸣-bu-tu₂ ša LUGAL | |
| 11 | ⸢EN⸣-ia a-ta-mar | |
| 12 | [x x]+⸢x⸣-me-ni ⸢x⸣+[x x] | |
| b.e. | ||
| 13 | ⸢le-ru⸣-[bu] | |
| 14 | [x x] ⸢x x⸣ [x x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1 | [x x x x x]-⸢i⸣-šu₂ | |
| 2 | [x x x x x]-⸢u₂-šu₂⸣ | |
| 3 | ⸢le⸣-pu-uš | |
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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