CT 53, 246 (P313661)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 246 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313661 |
| 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 1'1'–o 6'6' | May Nabû [and Marduk] ble[ss the king, my lord]. May Aššur and Iš[tar grant to the ki]ng, [my] lord, [lon]g life, lo[ng] days, and everlas[ting yea]rs. |
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' | {d}PA {[d}AMAR.UTU a-na LUGAL EN-ia] | |
| 2' | lik-ru-[bu] | |
| 3' | {d}aš-šur {d}15 [x x]+⸢x⸣ | |
| 4' | ⸢TI⸣.LA UD-MEŠ ar-[ku-u-ti] | |
| 5' | [MU].AN.NA-MEŠ da-⸢ra⸣-[a-ti] | |
| 6' | [a-na] ⸢LUGAL EN⸣-[ia liš-ru-ku] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [x x x x x x]-⸢nu⸣ | |
| 2' | [x x x x x x]-nu | |
| e. | ||
| 1 | [x x x x x] ⸢x x⸣ ni ⸢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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