CT 53, 286 (P313701)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 286 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313701 |
| 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 |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:1] o 1'1'–o 1'1' | Now then [......]: |
| Obverse [1:2] o 2'2'–o 2'2' | "Cultivate [......]! |
| Obverse [2:3] o 3'3'–o 3'3' | "... [......] |
| Obverse [3:4] o 4'4'–o 4'4' | [......] in the presence of the king, [my] lord. |
| Obverse [4:5] o 5'5'–o 5'5' | The king, my [lo]rd, sho[uld ......] |
| Obverse [5:6] o 6'6'–o 6'6' | [...] before [NN] |
| Obverse [6:7] o 7'7'–o 7'7' | [...] three da[ys ......] |
| Obverse [8:9] o 9'9'–o 9'9' | kil[led ......] |
| Obverse [9:10] o 10'10'–o 10'10' | to [...]-il[a'i ......] |
| Obverse [10:11] o 11'11'–o 11'11' | Let him [...] the harvest [...] |
| Obverse [11:12] o 12'12'–o 12'12' | Let [...] mine [...] |
| Reverse [2:3] r 3'3'–r 3'3' | collected [......] |
| Reverse [3:4] r 4'4'–r 4'4' | made the [...] of the king, my lord, enter [the ...]. |
| Reverse [4:6] r 5'5'–r 6'6' | As [to the ......] about which the king, my lord, [wrote to me]: |
| Reverse [6:7] r 7'7'–r 7'7' | "Twenty men [......] |
| Reverse [7:8] r 8'8'–r 8'8' | "your [...]s [......] |
| Reverse [8:9] r 9'9'–r 9'9' | [s]aid t[o ......] |
| Reverse [10:11] r 11'11'–r 11'11' | 300 [......] |
| Reverse [11:13] r 12'12'–r 13'13' | befo[re ......] |
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' | an-⸢nu⸣-rig ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x] | |
| 2' | ⸢x⸣ [x] a-ru\d-uš [x x x x] | |
| 3' | ⸢ma⸣ [x] ⸢hu⸣ u₂ [x x x x x] | |
| 4' | ina pa-an LUGAL be-⸢li₂⸣-[ia₂ x x x] | |
| 5' | LUGAL ⸢EN⸣-li ⸢lu⸣ [x x x x] | |
| 6' | [x x x] ina IGI {1}⸢x⸣+[x x x x] | |
| 7' | ⸢x⸣+[x x]+⸢x⸣ 03 UD [x x x x x] | |
| 8' | te-⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x x x] | |
| 9' | i-du-[x x x x x x x] | |
| 10' | a-na\t {1}{d}[x]—DINGIR-[a.a x x x x] | |
| 11' | {še}⸢ŠIBIR⸣ li-[x x x x x] | |
| 12' | ⸢ia⸣-u₂ ⸢li\d⸣-[x x x x x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | x [x x x x x x x x x] | |
| 2' | [x x] ⸢x x x⸣ [x x x x] | |
| 3' | up-⸢ta⸣-ah-ir ⸢x⸣+[x x x x] | |
| 4' | ša\yd LUGAL be-li₂-ia₂ ⸢x⸣+[x x x x] | |
| 5' | u₂-se-ri-bi ⸢ina⸣ [UGU x x x] | |
| 6' | ša\d LUGAL EN-li [iš-pur-an-ni] | |
| 7' | ma-a 20 {lu₂vy}ERIM-MEŠ\m [x x x x] | |
| 8' | ⸢x x⸣ [x]-MEŠ\m-ka [x x x x x] | |
| 9' | a-⸢x⸣+[x x iq]-bu-u-[ni x x x x] | |
| 10' | ⸢x x⸣ [x x x x x x x x] | |
| 11' | 03 me [x x x x x x x x] | |
| 12' | ina ⸢IGI⸣ [x x x x x x x x] | |
| 13' | ⸢x x⸣ [x 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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