CT 53, 314 (P313729)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 314 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313729 |
| 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 [1:2] o 2'2'–o 2'2' | [... the king], my lord |
| Obverse [2:3] o 3'3'–o 3'3' | [...] citizens of Babylon, |
| Obverse [3:4] o 4'4'–o 4'4' | [serva]nts of the king who went (away), |
| Obverse [4:6] o 5'5'–o 6'6' | have presented all the audience gifts to me. |
| Obverse [6:8] o 7'7'–o 8'8' | Now then a tablet [...]...[...] |
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' | [x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ | |
| 2' | [x x x x x LUGAL] EN-ia₂ | |
| 3' | [x x x] ⸢DUMU⸣-MEŠ\m—⸢KA₂⸣.DINGIR{ki} ⸢DUMU⸣-MEŠ\m—⸢KA₂⸣.DINGIR{ki} | |
| 4' | ⸢ARAD⸣-MEŠ\m ša₂ LUGAL ša₂ il-lik-u-ni | |
| 5' | na-mu-ra-a-te gab-bi-šu₂-nu | |
| 6' | uq\p-ṭar-rib-u-ni\d | |
| 7' | an-nu-rig ni\d-ib-zu | |
| 8' | [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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