CT 53, 389 (P313803)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 389 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313803 |
| 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 [0:1] o 1'1'–o 1'1' | [......] all |
| Obverse [1:2] o 2'2'–o 2'2' | [......] their fields |
| Obverse [2:3] o 3'3'–o 3'3' | [......] their threshing floors |
| Obverse [3:4] o 4'4'–o 4'4' | [...]; moreover, 20 homers of se[ed] corn |
| Obverse [4:5] o 5'5'–o 5'5' | [... of] the fort in the tow[er] |
| Obverse [5:6] o 6'6'–o 6'6' | [...] and the troops hith[er] |
| Obverse [6:7] o 7'7'–o 7'7' | [......] when Aššur-reṣ[uwa] |
| Obverse [7:8] o 8'8'–o 8'8' | [......] anyw[here] |
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] gab-bi-[x] | |
| 2' | [x x x x x x] A.ŠA₃-MEŠ\y-šu₂-nu [o] | |
| 3' | [x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ ad-ra-te-šu₂-nu [o] | |
| 4' | [x x x x]-⸢li\d⸣ u₃ 20 ANŠE\d {še}⸢NUMUN\y⸣-[MEŠ] | |
| 5' | [x x x {uru]}bir-te ina ŠA₃-bi i-si-[te] | |
| 6' | [x x x]-ma u₃ ERIM-MEŠ\y an-⸢ni⸣-[ša₂] | |
| 7' | [x x x x] ⸢ki⸣-i {1}aš-šur—re-ṣu-[u-a] | |
| 8' | [x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ a.a-ka-⸢me⸣-[ni 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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