CT 53, 420 (P313833)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 420 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313833 |
| 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 [7:8] o 8'8'–o 8'8' | [......] my messenger |
| Obverse [8:9] o 9'9'–o 9'9' | [...... the b]order[s] |
| Obverse [9:11] o 10'10'–o 11'11' | [......] the king, [my lord] |
| Reverse [0:1] r 1'1'–r 1'1' | [......] Arrapha |
| Reverse [1:2] r 2'2'–r 2'2' | [......] they [should] provide |
| Reverse [3:4] r 4'4'–r 4'4' | [......] the chariot |
| Reverse [4:5] r 5'5'–r 5'5' | [...... g]ave |
| Reverse [6:7] r 7'7'–r 7'7' | [...] I have given [...] |
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⸣ a [x x] | |
| 2' | [x x x x x x]-⸢tal⸣-ka [x] | |
| 3' | [x x x x x x x] nam [x x] | |
| 4' | [x x x x x x x] ⸢x⸣ [x x] | |
| 5' | [x x x x x x x x x x] | |
| 6' | [x x x x x x x x x x] | |
| 7' | [x x x x x x x x x] ⸢x⸣+[x] | |
| 8' | [x x x x x x {lu₂v]}⸢A⸣—šip-ri-⸢ia⸣ {lu₂v]}⸢A⸣—šip-ri-⸢ia⸣ | |
| 9' | [x x x x x x] ⸢ta⸣-hu-ma-[ni] | |
| 10' | [x x x x x x x] LUGAL [be-li₂] | |
| 11' | [x x x x x x x]+⸢x x⸣+[x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [x x x x x x] {⸢uru⸣}arrap-ha | |
| 2' | [x x x x lu]-⸢ša₂⸣-aṣ\dp-bi-⸢tu⸣ | |
| 3' | [x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ | |
| 4' | [x x x x x] {⸢giš⸣}nar-kab\p-tu | |
| 5' | [x x x x x x]-⸢tan⸣-na | |
| 6' | [x x x x x x x]-lam\d | |
| 7' | [x x x x x] ⸢a⸣-tan-na | |
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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