CT 53, 283 (P313698)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 283 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313698 |
| 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 [0:3] o 1o 1–o 33 | [To the king, my lord: your servant NN. Good health to the king], my lord! |
| Obverse [3:8] o 44–o 88 | As to the [...]ans [concerning whom] I appealed [to the Palace, saying]: "Let them fetch [the door-beam]s" — [...]-balliṭ the royal bodyguard [and NN have spok]en with them (as follows): |
| Obverse [8:11] o 99–o 1111 | "[...] the beams [and do] whatever [...] said to you; |
| Obverse [11:13] o 1212–o 1313 | [... y]our commanders-of-fifty [......] |
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 LUGAL be-li₂-ia] | |
| 2 | [ARAD-ka {1}x x x x x] | |
| 3 | [lu DI-mu a-na LUGAL] ⸢EN⸣-ia | |
| 4 | [ina UGU x x x x]-a.a | |
| 5 | [ša a-na E₂.GAL] a-hu\d-ru\d-u-ni | |
| 6 | [nu-uk {giš}ŠU₂.A]-MEŠ\m li\tt-in\p-tu₂-hu | |
| 7 | {1}{d}x—bal]-liṭ {lu₂vy}qur-bu\p-tu₂ | |
| 8 | {1}x x x] i-si-šu₂-nu\d | |
| 9 | [id-du-ub]-⸢bu⸣ ma-a {giš}ŠU₂.A-MEŠ\m | |
| 10 | [x x x]+⸢x⸣-ni\d mi₃-i-nu | |
| 11 | [x x x] i-du-ba\t-ka-nu-ni\d | |
| 12 | [x x x x] {lu₂vy}GAL—50-MEŠ-⸢ku⸣-nu {lu₂vy}GAL—50-MEŠ-⸢ku⸣-nu | |
| 13 | [x x x x x] {lu₂vy}EN—[x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ | |
| 3' | [x x x x]+⸢x x⸣+[x]-MEŠ\m | |
| 4' | [x x x x]-du-šu₂ | |
| 5' | [x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ | |
| 6' | [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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