CT 53, 287 (P313702)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 287 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313702 |
| 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 [0:12] o 1'1'– | Concerning [the field] about which the king, [my lord], wrote to me: "Giv[e it] to [NN]" — he to[ok] half a league in the town Za[ddi] on the [other] side of the river Ša[...], because of the town [...]. |
| Reverse [2:5] r 33–r 55 | The field which I ga[ve him], the one that [had been given] to Nabû-[...] son of Ya-hari |
| Reverse [5:6] r 66–r 66 | [...] the village of [NN] |
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' | ina UGU-hi [A.ŠA₃] | |
| 2' | ša LUGAL [be-li₂] | |
| 3' | iš-pur-an-⸢ni⸣ [o] | |
| 4' | ma-a a-na {1}[x x] | |
| 5' | di-i-[ni] | |
| 6' | ina {uru}za-⸢ad⸣-[di] | |
| b.e. | ||
| 7' | ina ba-at-⸢ti⸣ [x x] | |
| 8' | ⸢ša⸣ {id₂}ša₂-[x] | |
| r | ||
| 1 | 1/2 KASKAL.GID₂ i-⸢ti⸣-[ši] | |
| 2 | TA@v\m pa-an {uru}[x x] | |
| 3 | A.ŠA₃ ⸢ša⸣ ad-⸢di⸣-[nu-ni] | |
| 4 | ša a-na {1}{d}PA—[x x x] | |
| 5 | DUMU {1}ia—ha-ri [x x x] | |
| 6 | ⸢x⸣+[x] {uru}ŠE—{1}[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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