CT 53, 394 (P313808)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 394 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313808 |
| 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' | [...] them. He said: "[...]." |
| Obverse [1:2] o 2'2'–o 2'2' | [I said]: "You are [...] the ki[ng ...]." |
| Obverse [2:5] o 3'3'–o 5'5' | I am bringing them down to [...] as the king, [my lord], ordered me. What are the king my [lord's] orders? |
| Obverse [5:10] o 6'6'–o 10'10' | Alternatively, each (of them) should st[ay in] his (own) field or garden, and fear the Crown Prince. [W]hy should the whole town take away field[s of the f]ort? |
| Obverse [10:12] o 11'11'–o 12'12' | [NN the royal body]guard who [......] |
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⸣-šu-nu ma-[a x x x] | |
| 2' | [x x x x] ⸢at⸣-tu₂-nu nu-uk ⸢LUGAL⸣ [x] | |
| 3' | [x x x x]-⸢u₂⸣-bu\p ki-i ša\dym LUGAL [be-li₂] | |
| 4' | [ṭe₃-e]-⸢mu⸣ iš-ku-na-ni a-na ⸢x⸣+[x x x] | |
| 5' | [u₂]-še-ra-da\d-šu₂-nu mi-nu ša\yd ⸢LUGAL⸣ [be-li₂] | |
| 6' | [i]-qa\d-bu\p-ni u₂-la-a ia-mut-[tu] | |
| 7' | [ina] ŠA₃ A.ŠA₃-šu₂ {giš}SAR\m-šu₂ lu kam-mu-[su] | |
| 8' | [a]-na DUMU—LUGAL DUMU—LUGAL lip-lu-hu [o] | |
| 9' | [a]-ta-a URU gab-bi-šu₂ A.ŠA₃-⸢MEŠ⸣ | |
| 10' | [ša {uru]}⸢bir⸣-tu₂ i-na-ši-⸢u₂⸣ [o] | |
| 11' | [x x {lu₂v}qur]-bu\p-te ša\dym ⸢x⸣+[x x x x] | |
| 12' | [x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ [x x x x 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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