CT 53, 393 (P313807)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 393 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313807 |
| 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/saa01 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:1] o 1'1'–o 1'1' | [... ox]en [...] |
| Obverse [1:2] o 2'2'–o 2'2' | [... th]ere is/are |
| Obverse [2:3] o 3'3'–o 3'3' | [...] Šadikannean |
| Obverse [4:5] o 5'5'–o 5'5' | [...] yet |
| Obverse [7:8] o 8'8'–o 8'8' | [...] seize you |
| Obverse [8:10] o 9'9'– | [...] takes |
| Reverse [0:1] r 1r 1–r 1r 1 | [...] the Aššur temple |
| Reverse [1:2] r 22–r 22 | [...] the land of Halzi |
| Reverse [2:3] r 33–r 33 | [...] oxen |
| Reverse [3:4] r 44–r 44 | [...] man |
| Reverse [4:5] r 55–r 55 | [...] asked |
| Reverse [5:6] r 66–r 66 | [...] there |
| Reverse [6:7] r 77–r 77 | [...] Whatever |
| Reverse [7:8] r 88–r 88 | [the kin]g my lord |
| Reverse [8:9] r 99–r 99 | [sa]ys. |
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 GUD].⸢NITA₂-MEŠ⸣ [x x] | |
| 2' | [i]-⸢ba⸣-aš₂-ši | |
| 3' | [x x] {⸢uru⸣}še-di\d-⸢kan⸣-a.a | |
| 4' | [x x]+⸢x x⸣ bar | |
| 5' | [x x] ⸢u₂⸣-di\d-na | |
| 6' | [la u₂]-šat-pi-⸢u₂⸣ | |
| 7' | [x x x] la ⸢x⸣ | |
| 8' | [x x x] iṣ-bat-ka | |
| 9' | [x] i-⸢na⸣-ši | |
| r | ||
| 1 | [x x]+⸢x ša\m⸣ E₂—aš-šur ⸢x⸣ | |
| 2 | [x x]+⸢x⸣ {kur}hal-⸢zi⸣ | |
| 3 | [x x x] GUD.NITA₂-MEŠ | |
| 4 | [x x x]+⸢x⸣ LU₂ | |
| 5 | [x x x x]+⸢x⸣ iš\t-al\y-u-ni | |
| 6 | [x x x] ⸢ina⸣ ŠA₃-bi | |
| 7 | [x x x] mi₃-i-nu\d | |
| 8 | [ša] ⸢LUGAL⸣ EN | |
| 9 | [i-qab-bu]-u-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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