CT 53, 324 (P313739)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 324 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313739 |
| 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/saa05 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:3] o 1o 1–o 33 | [To the king, my lord: y]our [servant NN. Go]od health [to the king, my lord]! |
| Obverse [3:7] o 44–o 77 | [As to what] the king, my lord, [wrote me]: "[Gi]ve Ki[ṣir-Aššur] the barley of [... wh]ich is at [your] disposal!" — |
| Obverse [7:9] o 88–o 99 | there are 7,000 (homers) of ba[rley, (measured) by a s]eah of 6 litres, at [my disposal]. |
| Obverse [9:13] o 1010–o 1313 | [Man]nu-ki-Arbail, the [...] official, [and] the [...] scribes [who ca]me here hit the [......] |
| Obverse [13:14] o 1414–o 1414 | [the ki]ng, [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) |
|---|---|---|
| o | ||
| 1 | [a-na LUGAL be-li₂-ia] | |
| 2 | [ARAD]-⸢ka⸣ {1}x x x x x] | |
| 3 | [lu] ⸢DI⸣-mu\p [a-na LUGAL EN-ia] | |
| 4 | [ša] LUGAL be-li₂ [iš-pur-an-ni] | |
| 5 | [ma]-a {šep}PAD-MEŠ ša\dm [x x x] | |
| 6 | ⸢ša⸣ ina pa-ni-[ka] | |
| 7 | [ma]-⸢a⸣ a-na\t {1}ki-⸢ṣir\tp⸣—[aš-šur] | |
| 8 | [di]-ni 07 lim {šep}⸢PAD⸣-[MEŠ] | |
| 9 | [ina] {⸢giš⸣}BAN₂ ša\dm 06 qa ina [pa-ni-ia] | |
| 10 | {1}man]-nu—ki—arba-il₃ {⸢lu₂v⸣}[x x] | |
| 11 | [u₃] {lu₂v}A.BA\y-MEŠ [x x ša] | |
| 12 | [i]-⸢li⸣-ku-ni-ni si-[x x x] | |
| 13 | [x x]+⸢x⸣ it-tah-⸢ṣu⸣ [x x x] | |
| 14 | [x] ⸢LUGAL⸣ EN [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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