CT 53, 281 (P313696)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 281 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313696 |
| 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/saa13 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:8] o 1'1'– | [...] of the 'third m[en]' about which the king, my lord, wrote to me, saying: "Assign it to the storehouse for pi[ckled meat]" — I assigned it. |
| Reverse [0:6] r 1r 1–r 66 | I have hea[rd] that at the same time they [...] 5,000 [...]. I have now written to the king, [my lord]. Wha[t is it that the king, my lord, commands]? |
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 x] | |
| 2' | ša {lu₂v}03.U₅⸣-[MEŠ] | |
| 3' | ša LUGAL be-[li] | |
| 4' | iš-pur-an-[ni] | |
| 5' | ma-a ina E₂ {uzu}mi-[di-li] | |
| 6' | pi-qid-[di] | |
| 7' | ap-ti-[qi-di] | |
| r | ||
| 1 | a-se-⸢ʾe⸣-[e] | |
| 2 | ma-a 05 lim ⸢x⸣+[x x] | |
| 3 | is-se-niš i-[x x x] | |
| 4 | a-na LUGAL [EN-ia] | |
| 5 | as-par ⸢u₂⸣-[ma-a] | |
| 6 | mi-i-⸢nu⸣ [ša LUGAL be-li] | |
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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