CT 53, 250 (P313665)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 250 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313665 |
| 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 [0:1] o 1'1'–o 1'1' | [...] our lord [...] |
| Obverse [1:2] o 2'2'–o 2'2' | [...] have seiz[ed ...]. |
| Obverse [2:3] o 3'3'–o 3'3' | His [troops are] in [...]. |
| Obverse [3:4] o 4'4'–o 4'4' | [...] "Ullusun[u] |
| Obverse [4:6] o 5'5'–o 6'6' | [...] "[His] army, [which] had come [..., has] en[tered ...]. |
| Obverse [6:7] o 7'7'–o 7'7' | [Pe]rhaps h[e ......] |
| Obverse [7:8] o 8'8'–o 8'8' | [...] my servants [...] |
| Obverse [8:9] o 9'9'–o 9'9' | [... has not] emerged [...] in the p[ass ...] |
| Obverse [9:10] o 10'10'–o 10'10' | not [......] |
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] ⸢EN-ni⸣ [x x x x x] | |
| 2' | [x x x] i-ṣa-ab-[tu x x x x] | |
| 3' | {[lu₂v}e-mu]-⸢qi⸣-šu₂ ina ŠA₃-bi {⸢uru⸣}[x x x] | |
| 4' | [x x x] ma-a {1}ul-su\y-⸢un-nu⸣ | |
| 5' | [x x x]-⸢bu⸣ ma-a {lu₂v}e-mu-⸢qe-e⸣-[šu₂] | |
| 6' | [ša il]-⸢li⸣-ku-ni-ni ma-a ina ⸢ŠA₃⸣ [x x] | |
| 7' | [e-tar-bu is]—su\y-ri šu-[u x x x x] | |
| 8' | [x x x] ARAD-MEŠ\m-ia [x x x x] | |
| 9' | [x x la] u₂-ṣi ina ⸢ne₂⸣-[ri-bi x x] | |
| 10' | [x x x x] la-a [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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