CT 53, 377 (P313791)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 377 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313791 |
| 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/saa16 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Bottom [0:1] b.e. 1'b.e. 1'–b.e. 1'b.e. 1' | [...] the kin[g ...] |
| Bottom [1:3] b.e. 2'2'– | [w]ent [...] |
| Reverse [0:1] r 1r 1–r 1r 1 | [......] the messe[nger] |
| Reverse [1:2] r 22–r 22 | [...] wrote me |
| Reverse [2:3] r 33–r 33 | [... w]hen |
| Reverse [3:5] r 44–r 55 | [......] the [w]al[l] |
| Reverse [5:8] r 66–r 88 | [...] those [...]s |
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) |
|---|---|---|
| b.e. | ||
| 1' | [x x] ⸢LUGAL⸣ [x x x x] | |
| 2' | ⸢it⸣-ta-⸢lak⸣ [x] | |
| r | ||
| 1 | [x] lu [x x]+⸢x⸣ {lu₂v}A—⸢KIN⸣ {lu₂v}A—⸢KIN⸣ | |
| 2 | [x] ⸢iš-pur⸣-ra-an-ni [o] | |
| 3 | [x x x x]+⸢x im⸣—ma-te im⸣—ma-te | |
| 4 | [x x x x] ⸢E₂.SIG₄⸣ | |
| 5 | [x x x x]-⸢al⸣ | |
| 6 | [x x x x x]-MEŠ am-ma-te | |
| 7 | [x x x x]-ni | |
| 8 | [x x x x]-⸢ni⸣ | |
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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