CT 53, 265 (P313680)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 265 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313680 |
| 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 |
|---|---|
| Bottom [0:8] b.e. 1'b.e. 1'– | [Concerning ...]-ahhe [the son of Be]lšunu [about whom the king], my [l]ord, wrot[e to me]: "The royal messenger [whom] I sent to you [should bri]ng (him)" — now the[n I am sen]ding him off. |
| Reverse [6:9] r 77–r 99 | [... t]he ro[yal] messenger |
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) |
|---|---|---|
| b.e. | ||
| 1' | [ina UGU {1}x]—PAB-MEŠ | |
| r | ||
| 1 | [DUMU {1}⸢EN⸣-šu₂-nu\d | |
| 2 | [ša LUGAL] ⸢be⸣-li₂ iš-⸢pur⸣-[an-ni] | |
| 3 | [ma {lu₂]}A—KIN {lu₂]}A—KIN LUGAL | |
| 4 | [ša] ⸢aš₂⸣-pur-ka-a-ni | |
| 5 | [lu]-⸢bil⸣ an-nu-⸢rig⸣ | |
| 6 | [u₂-se]-bi\d-la-⸢šu₂⸣ | |
| 7 | [x] {⸢lu₂⸣}A—KIN {⸢lu₂⸣}A—KIN ⸢LUGAL⸣ | |
| 8 | [x x x] la [x x x] | |
| 9 | [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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