CT 53, 401 (P313815)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 401 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313815 |
| 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' | [about whom the king, my lord, w]ote to me: |
| Obverse [1:2] o 2'2'–o 2'2' | "Receive the [...]s from him!" |
| Obverse [2:3] o 3'3'–o 3'3' | [......] two feet |
| Obverse [3:4] o 4'4'–o 4'4' | [......] set |
| Obverse [4:6] o 5'5'–o 6'6' | [...... I as]ked him |
| Reverse [1:2] r 2'2'–r 2'2' | [......] I seized |
| Reverse [2:3] r 3'3'–r 3'3' | [......] for money |
| Reverse [3:4] r 4'4'–r 4'4' | [......] he should sell |
| Reverse [4:5] r 5'5'–r 5'5' | [..... st]anding |
| Reverse [5:6] r 6'6'–r 6'6' | [..... Ṭa]bî |
| Reverse [6:7] r 7'7'–r 7'7' | [.....] said to me. |
| Reverse [7:9] r 8'8'–r 9'9' | [Perhaps] the king, my lord, will say: |
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' | [ša LUGAL be-li₂ iš]-⸢pur-an-ni⸣ | |
| 2' | [ma-a x x x]+⸢x⸣-MEŠ mu-hur-šu | |
| 3' | [x x x x]+⸢x⸣ 02 GIR₃-MEŠ | |
| 4' | [x x x x] ša₂-kin₂ | |
| 5' | [x x x x a]-⸢sa⸣-ʾa-al-šu₂ | |
| 6' | [x x x x x x x] ⸢x⸣ | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [x x x x x] ⸢x⸣ [x] | |
| 2' | [x x UD x]-⸢KAM₂⸣ a-[ṣa]-bat | |
| 3' | [x x x x] ina kas-pi | |
| 4' | [x x x x] lid-din | |
| 5' | [x x x x]-za-az\dp | |
| 6' | [x x {1}DUG₃].GA-i | |
| 7' | [x x x] iq-ṭi-bu-u-ni\d | |
| 8' | [is—su-ri] ⸢LUGAL⸣ be-li₂ i-qa\d-bi | |
| 9' | [ma-a x x x x x x]-⸢i⸣ | |
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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