CT 53, 342 (P313757)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 342 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313757 |
| 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 [1:5] r 2'2'–r 5'5' | [The work is a great burden] on us. [Beca]use of the king [our] lord's work we have not come [and subm]itted a report to the house of our lord. |
| Reverse [5:7] r 6'6'–r 7'7' | The king [our] lord [should kno]w (this). |
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] | |
| 2' | [dul-lu] ina UGU-hi-⸢ni\d⸣ [x]+⸢x x⸣+[x] | |
| 3' | [ina] UGU dul-li ⸢ša\yd LUGAL⸣ be-li₂-[ni] | |
| 4' | ⸢a⸣-ni\d-ni\d la ni\d-⸢il-li⸣-ka [o] | |
| 5' | ⸢ṭe₃⸣-e-mu ina E₂—EN-e-ni\d E₂—EN-e-ni\d | |
| 6' | [la nu]-⸢te-re⸣ LUGAL\d be-li₂-[ni] | |
| 7' | [lu-u u₂]-⸢di⸣ | |
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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