CT 53, 378 (P313792)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 378 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313792 |
| 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/saa21 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:6] o 1o 1–o 66 | [NN] son of Abi-hazâ, [br]other of the sheikh Nasi'-il, son of Hatâ, [wh]o was stay[ing] in Nippur, was not clad in [purple], (so) he r[an away and went] to Babylon. |
| Obverse [6:9] o 77–o 99 | [A shephe]rd of Puq[udu] enter[ed the]re [and ... cap]ture[d him] |
| Reverse [0:4] r 1'1'–r 4'4' | [NN, who] earlier [...] from Ni[ppur, r]an away. No[w h]e has come. |
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 | {1}x x x x] DUMU {1}AD—ha-za-a | |
| 2 | ⸢PAB⸣-šu₂ ša\dm {1}na-si-iʾ—DINGIR | |
| 3 | {⸢lu₂⸣}na-sik\d DUMU {1}ha-ta-a 0 | |
| 4 | ⸢ša⸣ ina {uru}ni\d-pur kam-ma-[su-ni] | |
| 5 | [x] la lab-bu-uš ih-[ti\t-liq] | |
| 6 | ⸢a⸣-na {uru}KA₂.DINGIR-MEŠ\m ina ⸢qur⸣ [x] | |
| 7 | {[lu₂v]}⸢SIPA⸣ ša\dm {kur}pu-⸢qu⸣-[di] | |
| 8 | [ina ŠA₃]-bi e-ta-⸢rab⸣ [(x)] | |
| 9 | [x x x i]-⸢ṣab-ta⸣ [x x x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [x x x x] TA@v\dm {⸢uru}ni⸣-[pur] | |
| 2' | [x x x] ih-ru-pu\p-u-[ni] | |
| 3' | [ih]-ti\t-liq u₂-ma-[a] | |
| 4' | ⸢it⸣-tal-ka | |
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)
- electronic Babylonian Library (eBL), LMU Munich · MIT (eBL Zenodo dataset); platform terms unverified · electronic Babylonian Library (eBL), LMU Munich, https://www.ebl.lmu.de/ ; Zenodo dataset (MIT)
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