CT 53, 257 (P313672)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 257 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313672 |
| 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 [1:2] o 2'2'–o 2'2' | [After ...] the Ukkean |
| Obverse [2:3] o 3'3'–o 3'3' | had subjugat[ed ...], |
| Obverse [3:4] o 4'4'–o 4'4' | [the governor] opposite him came from Ur[arṭu] |
| Obverse [4:6] o 5'5'–o 6'6' | and they spen[t] the night together [in the town] Irmuna. |
| Obverse [6:7] o 7'7'–o 7'7' | [No]w, both of them [...] |
| Obverse [7:8] o 8'8'–o 8'8' | [...] to Dur-Šarruke[n ...] |
| Obverse [8:10] o 9'9'–o 10'10' | [...] w[i]th me |
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 x] me i ⸢x⸣+[x x x x] | |
| 2' | [x x x x] {⸢lu₂v⸣}uk-ka-a.⸢a⸣ [o] | |
| 3' | {[uru}x x x]+⸢x⸣-na u₂\m-ha-an-ni-[šu₂-ni] | |
| 4' | {[lu₂v}EN.NAM ša] ina pu\p-tu-šu₂ TA@v\m {kur}⸢URI⸣ | |
| 5' | [i-tal]-⸢ka⸣ i-si a-ha-iš\d [o] | |
| 6' | [ina {uru]}ir-mu-na be₂\d-e-⸢du⸣ [o] | |
| 7' | [an-nu]-⸢rig⸣ ki-lal-le-šu₂-nu ⸢x⸣+[x x] | |
| 8' | [x x x]+⸢x⸣ a-na {uru}BAD₃—MAN—⸢GIN\d⸣ | |
| 9' | [x x x] i-[si]-ia-⸢ma⸣ | |
| 10' | [x x x x] ⸢x x ni⸣ har [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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