CT 53, 270 (P313685)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 270 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313685 |
| 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 |
|---|---|
| Bottom [1:3] b.e. 2'2'– | [... t]he cohort commander [...] |
| Reverse [0:1] r 1r 1–r 1r 1 | [...] hith[er] |
| Reverse [1:2] r 22–r 22 | [...] wine |
| Reverse [2:4] r 33–r 44 | [...] refined [s]ilver |
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' | [x x x x] ⸢an x⸣+[x x x x] | |
| 2' | [x x x] {⸢lu₂⸣}GAL—ki-ṣir {⸢lu₂⸣}GAL—ki-ṣir [x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1 | [x x x]+⸢x⸣ ha-an-ni-[ša₂] | |
| 2 | [x x x] ⸢ga⸣ {giš}GEŠTIN-MEŠ [(x)] | |
| 3 | [x x x] ⸢KUG⸣.UD ba-aš₂-lu [(x)] | |
| 4 | [x x x x] ⸢x x x te⸣ [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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