CT 53, 365 (P313779)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 365 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313779 |
| 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 [0:5] o 1'1'–o 5'5' | His magnates [sur]rounded him in [..., at the ou]tskirts of Wai[si], and killed him. |
| Obverse [5:14] o 6'6'– | The right-hand commander-in-chief, of the family [of Sar]duri, [......] but has [not y]et entered Ṭu[rušp]â. |
| Reverse [3:5] r 44–r 55 | [Per]haps the king, my lord, [will s]ay: "[...] |
| Reverse [5:6] r 66–r 66 | [...] the fort [...] |
| Reverse [6:7] r 77–r 77 | [...] they do not kn[ow ...] |
| Reverse [7:8] r 88–r 88 | [... o]f the for[t ...] |
| Reverse [8:9] r 99–r 99 | [...] W[aisi] |
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' | [ina] {⸢uru⸣}[x x x] | |
| 2' | [ša] ⸢qa⸣-ni {uru}u₂-⸢e⸣-[si] | |
| 3' | {⸢lu₂v⸣}GAL-MEŠ\m-šu₂ | |
| 4' | ⸢il⸣-ti\t-bi-u₂-šu | |
| 5' | i-du-ku-šu | |
| 6' | {lu₂v}tur-ta\dp-nu | |
| 7' | ⸢ša⸣ ZAG ša qi-i-ni | |
| 8' | {1}{⸢d⸣}15—⸢BAD₃⸣ | |
| b.e. | ||
| 9' | [x x x]+⸢x x⸣+[x] ⸢x⸣ [(x)] ⸢bi⸣ | |
| r | ||
| 1 | [x x x] ⸢ŠA₃⸣ [x] ⸢x⸣ [x x]+⸢x⸣ | |
| 2 | [u₂]-di\d-na ina {uru}ṭu-⸢ur⸣-[uš]-⸢pa⸣-a | |
| 3 | [la] e-rab\d-ba [o] | |
| 4 | [i]—⸢su⸣-ri LUGAL be-li₂ [o] | |
| 5 | [i-qab]-bi ma-a [x] {kur}[x x] | |
| 6 | [x x] {⸢uru⸣}HAL.ṢU a-[x x x] | |
| 7 | [x x x] la u₂-⸢du⸣-[u x x] | |
| 8 | [x x] ⸢ša⸣ {uru}HAL.⸢ṢU⸣ [x x] | |
| 9 | [x x x] ⸢x {uru}u₂⸣-[e-si 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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