CT 53, 253 (P313668)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 253 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313668 |
| 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/saa16 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:1] o 1'1'–o 1'1' | "[He] saw [......] |
| Obverse [1:2] o 2'2'–o 2'2' | "He is releasing [.....] |
| Obverse [2:3] o 3'3'–o 3'3' | [The ki]ng, my lord, should ask [......] |
| Obverse [3:4] o 4'4'–o 4'4' | "[... who t]respassed [......] |
| Obverse [4:6] o 5'5'–o 6'6' | [...] now [......] |
| Reverse [0:3] r 1'1'–r 3'3' | [...] them [......] |
| Reverse [3:5] r 4'4'–r 5'5' | [...] 200 [......] |
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' | [e]-ta-mar ⸢ša⸣ [x x x x x] | |
| 2' | i-pa-ṭa-ra ma-a {1}[x x x x x x] | |
| 3' | ⸢LUGAL⸣ be-li₂ liš-al-šu₂ ⸢ma⸣-[a x x x x x] | |
| 4' | [x x] ⸢ih⸣-ṭu-ni ma-⸢a⸣ [x x x x x] | |
| 5' | [x x x]-iṣ a-kan-ni [x x x x x] | |
| 6' | [x x x x] ⸢x x⸣+[x x x x x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [x x]-šu₂-nu [x x x x x x x x x x] | |
| 2' | [x x] la ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x x x x x x] | |
| 3' | [x x] ša ⸢ta⸣-[x x x x x x x x x x] | |
| 4' | [x x] 02 me [x x x x x x x x x x] | |
| 5' | [x x x]+⸢x⸣ ša₂ [x x x x 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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