CT 53, 264 (P313679)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 264 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313679 |
| 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 [0:2] o 1o 1–o 22 | [To the king, my lord: your servant Nashir-Bel. Good he]alth t[o the king, my lord]! |
| Obverse [2:3] o 33–o 33 | [We are doing] the king's [wor]k. |
| Obverse [3:7] o 44–o 77 | As to the oxe[n concerning which NN wrote] to the king, my lord, saying: "Nashir-Bel [......] " — |
| Obverse [7:11] o 88–o 1111 | [...] before the king [...] |
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 | [a-na\t LUGAL EN-ia] | |
| 2 | [ARAD-ka {1}NIGIN—EN] | |
| 3 | [lu] ⸢DI⸣-mu a-⸢na\t⸣ [LUGAL EN-ia] | |
| 4 | [dul]-⸢lu⸣ ša\p LUGAL [EN-ia x x] | |
| 5 | ⸢ina UGU⸣ GUD-⸢MEŠ⸣ [ša {1}x x x] | |
| 6 | ⸢a-na⸣ LUGAL EN-[ia iš-pur-an-ni] | |
| 7 | ⸢ma-a⸣ {1}NIGIN—EN [x x x x] | |
| 8 | [x x x] IGI ⸢LUGAL⸣ [x x x] | |
| 9 | [x]+⸢x⸣ hi ⸢x x⸣ [x x x x] | |
| 10 | [x] ⸢LUGAL iš⸣-[x x x x] | |
| 11 | [x x] ⸢a-na\t⸣ [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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