CT 53, 422 (P313835)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 422 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313835 |
| 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/saa15 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:1] o 1'1'–o 1'1' | [to the king], my [lord]! [...] |
| Obverse [1:5] o 2'2'–o 5'5' | We inspected the crops (about which) the ki[ng], my lord, wrote to me, it is excellent. ... on account of it. |
| Obverse [5:6] o 6'6'–o 6'6' | Now then |
| Obverse [6:7] o 7'7'–o 7'7' | [...] the city wall |
| Reverse [1:3] r 2'2'–r 3'3' | [about which the king], my lord, [wrot]e to me, |
| Reverse [5:8] r 6'6'–r 8'8' | [a]ccordin[g to] the Malahu |
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' | [EN]-⸢ia⸣ [x x x x] | |
| 2' | {⸢še⸣}BURU₁₄\t ⸢LUGAL⸣ | |
| 3' | EN-li₂\d iš-pur-an-ni\d | |
| 4' | ne₂-ta-mar dam-qu | |
| 5' | a—dan-niš ina UGU-hi | |
| 6' | [x]-hal-si an-nu-rig | |
| 7' | [x x x x] ⸢BAD₃⸣ | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [x x x x] ⸢x⸣+[x x] | |
| 2' | [ša LUGAL] be-li₂ | |
| 3' | [iš]-⸢pur⸣-an-ni\d | |
| 4' | [x] qa\d ni ⸢x⸣ MEŠ | |
| 5' | [x]+⸢x x x⸣ tu₂ | |
| 6' | [ina] ⸢UGU⸣ pi-i | |
| 7' | [ša] {lu₂vy}ma-la-ha | |
| 8' | [x x] ⸢ni⸣ [x x]+⸢x⸣ tu₂ | |
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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