CT 53, 359 (P313773)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 359 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313773 |
| 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 [2:3] o 3'3'–o 3'3' | [......]s |
| Obverse [3:4] o 4'4'–o 4'4' | [...... I l]aid |
| Obverse [4:5] o 5'5'–o 5'5' | [...... re]sting place |
| Obverse [6:7] o 7'7'–o 7'7' | [...... st]ood |
| Obverse [8:9] o 9'9'–o 9'9' | [......] did not put him up for the night |
| Obverse [9:10] o 10'10'–o 10'10' | [......] he is settling [...] there. |
| Obverse [10:14] o 11'11'– | I heard [from the shei]khs [that] he is going to enter it. |
| Reverse [0:4] r 1r 1–r 44 | [When] I had finished building the fort, I [...] laid hands on Yannuqu. All [the ...]s of the Puqudu, [the shei]khs and the heralds have [ret]urned. |
| Reverse [4:9] r 55–r 99 | A manservant of his [who] came [from Bit]-Yakin [has told me]: "I went [to GN] at your command and placed all [the ...s] in his charge. |
| Reverse [9:10] r 1010–r 1010 | "[... y]ou could [not ...] |
| Reverse [10:11] r 1111–r 1111 | [...] ever since [...] |
| Reverse [11:12] r 1212–r 1212 | [... E]lam [...] |
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] ⸢hu⸣ | |
| 2' | [x x x x x x x x x x x x] a | |
| 3' | [x x x x x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣-MEŠ | |
| 4' | [x x x x x x x x x x] ⸢ak⸣-tar-ar | |
| 5' | [x x x x x x x x x] ⸢ma⸣-na-ah-tu | |
| 6' | [x x x x x x x x x x]-li\d | |
| 7' | [x x x x x x x x x]-zi-iz | |
| 8' | [x x x x x x x x] ⸢x⸣-lak ni | |
| 9' | [x x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ la u₂-bid-su | |
| 10' | [x x x x x]+⸢x-u-ni⸣ ina ŠA₃-bi i-šak-kan | |
| 11' | [x x x x] ⸢x x⸣-a-ni ⸢a⸣-se-em | |
| b.e. | ||
| 12' | [ma-a] ina ŠA₃-bi e-rab | |
| r | ||
| 1 | [a-ki {uru]}HAL.ṢU ar-ṣip-u-ni ⸢u₂⸣-gam-mir-u-[ni] | |
| 2 | [x x x]+⸢x⸣ ŠU.2 ina UGU {1}ia-⸢an⸣-nu-qi a-sa-⸢kan⸣ | |
| 3 | [x x x]-⸢ri⸣ ša\y {uru}pu-qud-di | |
| 4 | {[lu₂v}na-si]-⸢ka⸣-ni {lu₂v}ŠU₂.NIGIR₂-MEŠ gab-bu | |
| 5 | [is-su]-uh-ru {⸢lu₂vp⸣}TUR-šu₂ | |
| 6 | [ša TA E₂]—{1}ia-⸢ki⸣-ni il\y-li\d-kan-ni | |
| 7 | [iq-ṭi-bi-a] ma-a ina UGU pi-i-ka | |
| 8 | [ina {uru}x x]+⸢x⸣-sa at-ta-lak | |
| 9 | [ma-a x x] ⸢gab⸣-bu ina pa-ni-šu a-sa-⸢ka⸣-an | |
| 10 | [x x x la] ⸢ta⸣-al-ʾi ma-a [x x x]+⸢x⸣ | |
| 11 | [x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ TA\m ⸢E₂⸣ [x x x] | |
| 12 | [x x x x {kur]}⸢NIM⸣.MA [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
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