CT 53, 240 (P313655)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 240 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313655 |
| 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/saa05 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [1:2] o 2'2'–o 2'2' | [......] remov[ed ...]. |
| Obverse [2:8] o 3'3'–o 8'8' | [As to what the king], my lord, wrote [me, when] I c[ame fr]om the review, my [..., my] 'third [man' and the chariot d]river |
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⸣ ina [x x] | |
| 2' | [x x x x] pa-su\t-⸢ku⸣ [x] | |
| 3' | [ša LUGAL] be-li₂ iš-pur-an-[ni] | |
| 4' | [ki-i] ⸢TA@v\m⸣ ma-šar\p-ti\t al\d-[lik-an-ni] | |
| 5' | [x x]-ti\t-ia {lu₂vy}03.[U₅-ia] | |
| 6' | {[lu₂v}DIB]—⸢a-pa⸣-MEŠ {[lu₂v}DIB]—⸢a-pa⸣-MEŠ ina ⸢x⸣ [x x x] | |
| 7' | [x x x] ab ⸢ba⸣ [x x x x] | |
| 8' | [x x x] KASKAL [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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