CT 53, 343 (P313758)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 343 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313758 |
| 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 [1:2] o 2'2'–o 2'2' | [As] to the [......] |
| Obverse [2:3] o 3'3'–o 3'3' | mihru tree [......] |
| Obverse [3:4] o 4'4'–o 4'4' | Arraphaeans [......] |
| Obverse [4:5] o 5'5'–o 5'5' | the beams which to [......] |
| Obverse [5:6] o 6'6'–o 6'6' | poplar tree [......] |
| Obverse [6:9] o 7'7'–o 9'9' | I have fetched 200 beams [......] |
| Reverse [0:1] r 1'1'–r 1'1' | from their midst [......] |
| Reverse [1:2] r 2'2'–r 2'2' | let them give me [......] |
| Reverse [2:4] r 3'3'–r 4'4' | in early [......] |
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 x x x] | |
| 2' | [ina] ⸢UGU⸣ {lu₂}[x x x x x x x] | |
| 3' | {giš}mi-ih-⸢ri⸣ [x x x x x x] | |
| 4' | {uru}arrap-ha-a.[a x x x x x] | |
| 5' | {giš}UR₃\dm-MEŠ\m ša\ydm ⸢a-na⸣ [x x x x x] | |
| 6' | {giš}ṣar\m-bu-tu₂ ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x] | |
| 7' | 02 me {giš}UR₃\m-MEŠ\m [x x x x x] | |
| 8' | ⸢at⸣-ta-at-ha [x x x x x x] | |
| 9' | [x x] ⸢a⸣-ta-[x x x x x x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | ⸢TA@v\m⸣ ŠA₃-bi-šu₂\d-nu [x x x x x] | |
| 2' | li\td-di-nu-ni [x x x x x x x] | |
| 3' | ina har-⸢pu⸣-ti [x x x x x x] | |
| 4' | ⸢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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