CT 53, 358 (P313772)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 358 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313772 |
| 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' | [...... ther]efore they |
| Obverse [2:3] o 3'3'–o 3'3' | [......] they are [by the r]iver |
| Obverse [3:4] o 4'4'–o 4'4' | [......] we gave them |
| Obverse [4:5] o 5'5'–o 5'5' | [...... am]ong them |
| Obverse [5:7] o 6'6'– | [...... wo]unded |
| Reverse [0:1] r 1'r 1'–r 1'r 1' | [......] th[eir ...] |
| Reverse [1:2] r 2'2'–r 2'2' | [......] the river |
| Reverse [2:3] r 3'3'–r 3'3' | [...... ab]out the city wal[l] |
| Reverse [5:6] r 6'6'–r 6'6' | [......] the wall |
| Reverse [6:7] r 7'7'–r 7'7' | [......] upon it |
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]-⸢ni⸣ | |
| 2' | [x x x x ina] ⸢UGU⸣-hi šu-nu | |
| 3' | [x x x x x] ⸢ID₂\d⸣ šu-nu | |
| 4' | [x x x x x] ni-ta\p-na\td-⸢x⸣-šu₂-nu | |
| 5' | [x x x x ina ŠA₃]-bi-šu₂\d-nu | |
| 6' | [x x x x u₂]-⸢ta⸣-hi-ṣi\p | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [x x x x x]-ba-šu\d-[nu] | |
| 2' | [x x x x x] ⸢ID₂\d⸣ | |
| 3' | [x x x x ina] ⸢UGU BAD₃\p⸣ | |
| 4' | [x x x x x] ni\d ša\yd ⸢x⸣ | |
| 5' | [x x x x x]-ṣu | |
| 6' | [x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ BAD₃ | |
| 7' | [x x x x ina] ⸢UGU⸣-hi | |
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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