CT 53, 269 + 748 (P313684)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 269 + 748 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313684 |
| 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/saa01 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:3] o 1o 1–o 33 | To the king, my lord: your servant .... Good health to the king, my lord! |
| Obverse [3:7] o 44–o 77 | As to what the king my lord wrote to me: "[...]ṣame the Palace Superintendent is right now bringing [capti]ves [to you]" [...... |
| Reverse [0:3] r 1'1'–r 3'3' | ... which I] have not brought in (but) have appointed. [On the ...th] I left for my work in Dur-Šarruken. |
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}⸢EN—MAŠ x⸣ | |
| 3 | lu DI-mu a-na\t LUGAL ⸢EN-ia₂⸣ | |
| 4 | ša\dm LUGAL be-li₂ iš-pur-⸢an⸣-[ni] | |
| 5 | ma-a an-nu-⸢rig⸣ | |
| 6 | {1}⸢x-x⸣-ṣa-me {lu₂v}ša₂—IGI—⸢KUR⸣ | |
| 7 | [hu-ub]-tu₂ u₂-⸢ba⸣-[la-ka] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [x x x]-⸢ia⸣ u [x x] | |
| 2' | [ša] ⸢la⸣ u₂-še-⸢rib⸣-u-ni | |
| 3' | u₂\m-ba-qi-du-[ni] | |
| 5' | ina {uru}BAD₃\p—{1}MAN—GIN | |
| 6' | ina UGU ⸢dul⸣-[li-ia] | |
| 7' | at-ta-[lak] | |
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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