CT 53, 315 (P313730)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 315 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313730 |
| 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 |
|---|---|
| Reverse [1:2] r 2'2'–r 2'2' | [...] lai[d down] |
| Reverse [2:3] r 3'3'–r 3'3' | [... o]f the spoils |
| Reverse [3:4] r 4'4'–r 4'4' | [... of s]ilver upon a ...[...] |
| Reverse [5:6] r 6'6'–r 6'6' | [...] the exit [...] |
| Reverse [6:7] r 7'7'–r 7'7' | [...] you go out [......] |
| Reverse [7:11] r 8'8'–r 11'11' | Concerning the [tri]bute horse[s] about which the king, my lord, [wrote to me], the king, my lord [...] |
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) |
|---|---|---|
| r | ||
| 1' | [x x x x x]+⸢x x⸣+[x x x] | |
| 2' | [x x x x] ik-ta-⸢ra⸣-[ra] | |
| 3' | [x x x] ⸢ša⸣ hi-in-sa-a-[te] | |
| 4' | [x x x] ⸢KUG⸣.UD ina UGU {gišd}⸢ša\d⸣—[x x] | |
| 5' | [x x x]-ha-ra-ni [x] | |
| 6' | [x x x]+⸢x⸣ a-ṣi-ti [x] | |
| 7' | [x x x] tu₂-u-ṣa [x x] | |
| 8' | [x x]-⸢ša₂⸣ ina UGU {anše}KUR.RA-[MEŠ] | |
| 9' | [ša ma]-da-te ša\dm LUGAL EN [x] | |
| 10' | [x x x] ⸢a⸣ LUGAL be-li₂ [x x] | |
| 11' | [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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