CT 53, 298 (P313713)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 298 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313713 |
| 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/saa10 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:5] o 1'1'–o 5'5' | "We shall sit up [with him]"; let us shear [his] head and bind [the wound] with [...] bandages." |
| Obverse [5:7] o 6'6'– | Now, what is it th[at the king, my lord], orders? |
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' | ni-da-⸢li⸣-[ib] | |
| 2' | ma-a SAG.⸢DU⸣-[su] | |
| 3' | nu-gal-li-[ib x x] | |
| 4' | ṣi-in-di [x x x] | |
| 5' | ni-ir-⸢ku⸣-[us] | |
| 6' | u₂-[ma-a] | |
| r | ||
| 1 | mi-nu ⸢ša⸣ [LUGAL be-li₂] | |
| 2 | i-qa-⸢bu⸣-[u-ni] | |
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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