CT 53, 417 (P313830)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 417 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313830 |
| 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/saa10 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:1] o 1'1'–o 1'1' | "[Namullu] = plank bed"; |
| Obverse [1:2] o 2'2'–o 2'2' | "[Šita] = weapon"; "Gi = reed"; |
| Obverse [2:3] o 3'3'–o 3'3' | "[Gurh]ub = large basket"; "Dug = earthenware"; |
| Obverse [3:4] o 4'4'–o 4'4' | "Marduk [...] the word of the gods"; |
| Obverse [4:5] o 5'5'–o 5'5' | [Mul] Apin: all these tablet[s] (exist) in three copies. |
| Obverse [5:8] o 6'6'–o 8'8' | Dugul-pan-[ili] and Kiṣir-Aššur are both copying Urra. |
| Obverse [8:9] o 9'9'–o 9'9' | "He created stations [for the great gods"]; |
| Obverse [9:10] o 10'10'–o 10'10' | "[As Illi]l [heard the words of the gods"]; |
| Reverse [1:2] r 2'2'–r 2'2' | behind schedu[le ......] |
| Reverse [2:3] r 3'3'–r 3'3' | one-column tablet [......] |
| Reverse [3:4] r 4'4'–r 4'4' | I saw [......] |
| Reverse [4:5] r 5'5'–r 5'5' | at my disposal [......] |
| Reverse [5:9] r 6'6'–r 9'9' | tablets [......] |
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' | {[giš}na-mul-lum] ⸢na⸣-[mul-lu] | |
| 2' | {[giš}ŠITA₂] kak-ku GI ⸢qa⸣-[nu-u] | |
| 3' | {[gi}GUR].⸢HUB₂⸣ hup₂-pu DUG ⸢kar⸣-[pa-tum] | |
| 4' | [x x x] zik-ri DINGIR-MEŠ {d}⸢AMAR⸣.[UTU] | |
| 5' | {[mul]}APIN PAB an-ni-u₂ IM [x x x] | |
| 6' | ša 03-šu₂-nu {1}du-gul—IGI—[DINGIR] | |
| 7' | {1}ki-ṣir—aš-šur ki-lal-le-šu₂-[nu] | |
| 8' | UR₅.RA i-šaṭ-ṭu-⸢ru⸣ | |
| 9' | u₂-⸢ba⸣-aš₂-šim man-za-za [ana DINGIR.DINGIR] | |
| 10' | {d}[EN].⸢LIL₂⸣ zik-ri DINGIR-⸢MEŠ⸣ [ina še-mi-šu₂] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | ⸢x⸣ [x x x x x] | |
| 2' | na-mar-⸢ku⸣-[x x x x x] | |
| 3' | IM.GID₂.DA [x x x x x] | |
| 4' | a-ta-mar ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x] | |
| 5' | ina pa-ni-⸢ia⸣ [x x x x x] | |
| 6' | DUB-MEŠ ⸢x⸣ [x x x x x] | |
| 7' | [x x x x x x] ⸢ni⸣ [x x x x x] | |
| 8' | [x x x x x x] aš₂ ina [x x x x x] | |
| 9' | [x x x 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)
- 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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