CT 53, 245 (P313660)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 245 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313660 |
| 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/saa01 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:13] o 44–o 1616 | "The recipients of iškāru assignments should immediately come up here and enter the city of [...] after Zabbua, quickly! The [...] should likewise ... and come up. Let them make it clear to the mayor and the city overseer that they have to bring forth the ... and the recipients of iškāru assignments [... |
| Reverse [1:8] r 66–r 1212 | ...] after [...]; "Come, enter [...] and go straight to [...], (then) come [...]." As to [... |
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 | ||
| 4 | {lu₂vy}EN—⸢iš-ka⸣-[ra-te] {lu₂vy}EN—⸢iš-ka⸣-[ra-te] | |
| 5 | ma ar₂-hiš le\tp-lu-u-⸢ni⸣ | |
| 6 | i—da\d-at i—da\d-at {1}zab-bu-u-a {⸢uru}x⸣+[x x x] | |
| 7 | le\t-ru-bu | |
| 8 | a-na ar-hi-iš\d u₃ ⸢UDU⸣-[MEŠ] | |
| 9 | li\t-iš-kul le\t-lu-u-ni | |
| 10 | bir-ti\t IGI.2-MEŠ | |
| 11 | ⸢ša\ydm⸣ {lu₂vy}ha-za-a-ni | |
| 12 | {lu₂vy}ša\ydm—UGU—URU | |
| 13 | lu-ma-di-du | |
| 14 | {lu₂vy}UD kas pu [x x] | |
| 15 | {lu₂vy}EN—iš-ka-[ra-te] {lu₂vy}EN—iš-ka-[ra-te] | |
| 16 | ⸢lu⸣-še-ṣu-[u-ni] | |
| r | ||
| 5 | ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x x x] | |
| 6 | ⸢i—da\d-at⸣ ⸢i—da\d-at⸣ [x x x x x] | |
| 7 | ma al-ka [x x x x] | |
| 8 | er-ba\t pa-an [x x x x] | |
| 9 | ⸢et-qa al⸣-[ka-ni x x] | |
| 10 | ⸢al-ka⸣ a ⸢x⸣ [x x x x] | |
| 11 | ina UGU-ka [x x x x] | |
| 12 | ⸢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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