CT 53, 294 (P313709)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 294 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313709 |
| 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 |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:1] o 1'1'–o 1'1' | Now [......] |
| Obverse [1:2] o 2'2'–o 2'2' | I said: "[......] |
| Obverse [2:3] o 3'3'–o 3'3' | of [your]se[lf ...] |
| Obverse [3:4] o 4'4'–o 4'4' | I said: "[......] |
| Obverse [5:6] o 6'6'–o 6'6' | I said: "Wh[y ...] |
| Obverse [6:8] o 7'7'– | the king [......] |
| Reverse [1:2] r 22–r 22 | [He sa]id: "Wh[y don't you agree] |
| Reverse [2:4] r 33–r 44 | "to feed an aṣūdu-bowl [to ...]? O[f ...] |
| Reverse [4:5] r 55–r 55 | of the deputy [...] |
| Reverse [5:7] r 66–r 77 | Why [......] |
| Edge [0:1] e. 1e. 1–e. 1e. 1 | [The ...]s of the king [...]. |
| Edge [1:2] e. 22–e. 22 | That is a ve[ry] good advice. |
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' | u₂-ma-⸢a⸣ [x x x x x] | |
| 2' | nu-uk [x x x x x] | |
| 3' | ša ra-⸢mi⸣-[ni-x x x] | |
| 4' | nu-uk [x x x x x] | |
| 5' | ⸢qa⸣-[x] ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x] | |
| 6' | ⸢nu-uk⸣ a-⸢ta⸣-[a x x x] | |
| 7' | ⸢LUGAL x⸣+[x x x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1 | ⸢x x⸣ [x x x x x] | |
| 2 | ⸢ma⸣-a a-ta-[a x x x] | |
| 3 | [ma]-a a-ṣu-du [x x x] | |
| 4 | ⸢la⸣ tu-ša₂-kal ⸢ša⸣ [x x x] | |
| 5 | ša {lu₂}02-⸢e⸣ [x x x x] | |
| 6 | a-ta-a [x x x x x] | |
| 7 | e-[x x x x x x x] | |
| e. | ||
| 1 | [x x x]-MEŠ ša LUGAL ⸢it⸣-[x x x] | |
| 2 | ⸢mi₃⸣-il-ku šu₂-u SIG₅ a—[dan-niš] | |
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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