CT 53, 251 (P313666)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 251 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313666 |
| 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/saa15 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:1] o 1'1'–o 1'1' | [......] the king, my lord [...] |
| Obverse [1:2] o 2'2'–o 2'2' | [......] Place! [...] |
| Obverse [2:3] o 3'3'–o 3'3' | [......] before [NN] |
| Obverse [3:4] o 4'4'–o 4'4' | [......] Arrapha [...] |
| Obverse [6:7] o 7'7'–o 7'7' | [has en]tered but no[t ...]. |
| Obverse [7:9] o 8'8'–o 9'9' | [As the king], my [lo]rd, commanded, [w]e shall pou[r ...] |
| Obverse [9:10] o 10'10'–o 10'10' | [......] "From [...] |
| Obverse [10:11] o 11'11'–o 11'11' | [......] in [...] |
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] ⸢LUGAL be-li₂⸣ [x x x] | |
| 2' | [x x x x x] ⸢kur-ru⸣ ina [x x x] | |
| 3' | [x x x x x] pa-an {1}{⸢d⸣}[x x x] | |
| 4' | [x x x x x] {uru}arrap-ha [x x x] | |
| 5' | [x x x x x]-ṣu iš-[x x x] | |
| 6' | [x x x x x]-ta-ri-⸢x⸣+[x x x] | |
| 7' | [x x x x e]-tar-ba ⸢la⸣ [x x x] | |
| 8' | [ki-i ša LUGAL be]-li₂ iq-⸢bu⸣-[u-ni] | |
| 9' | [x x x x] ⸢ni⸣-tab\d-⸢bak⸣ [x x] | |
| 10' | [x x x x] ⸢ma⸣-a TA@v\m [x x x] | |
| 11' | [x x x x x] ⸢in⸣ [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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