CT 53, 320 (P313735)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 320 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313735 |
| 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' | [...] Aššur-reši-išši the chi[ef ...] |
| Obverse [2:3] o 3'3'–o 3'3' | [have become s]ubmissive. What the chi[ef ...] |
| Obverse [3:5] o 4'4'–o 5'5' | [...] not [......] |
| Reverse [1:7] r 2'2'–r 7'7' | [Concerning the Kul]umanea[ns about whom the king, my lord], wrote to me: "Speak [kindly with th]em" — I have s[poken kindly wi]th them |
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⸣-ṣu-šu aš₂-⸢šu₂⸣-[x x x x] | |
| 2' | [x {1}aš-šur—SAG—i-ši {lu₂v}⸢GAL⸣—[x x x] | |
| 3' | [ih]-⸢ta⸣-an-šu₂ ša\d {lu₂v}⸢GAL⸣—[x x x] | |
| 4' | [x x] la-a [x x]+⸢x x⸣+[x x x x] | |
| 5' | [x x]+⸢x⸣ [x x x x x x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [x x x x x] ⸢x⸣+[x x x x] | |
| 2' | [ina UGU {uru}ku]-⸢lum⸣-man-a.[a o] | |
| 3' | [ša LUGAL be-li₂] iš\d-pur-an-⸢ni⸣ [ma-a] | |
| 4' | [x x is-si-šu₂]-nu du-ub-bu [x x x] | |
| 5' | [x x x x is]-⸢si⸣-šu₂-nu a-⸢du⸣-[bu-ub] | |
| 6' | [x x x x x] ⸢x x x⸣ [x x x] | |
| 7' | [x x 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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