CT 53, 424 (P313837)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 424 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313837 |
| 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 [6:8] o 7'7'– | [... s]peak [...] |
| Bottom [0:1] b.e. 8'b.e. 8'–b.e. 8'b.e. 8' | [...] garden [...] |
| Bottom [1:3] b.e. 9'9'– | The king, [my] lo[rd, can be glad]. |
| Reverse [0:5] r 1r 1–r 55 | Also, they are bring[ing out] the re[st] of their brothers, including people from Labir and Sakkuana. [No]w then, these have come and said: |
| Reverse [5:9] r 66–r 99 | "[Should we l]ay hands on Assyrian territory, we would be ...ed; re[port to] the Palace [......]" |
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]-šu₂-nu i-[x x] | |
| 2' | [x x x]+⸢x⸣-ṣu-u₂-[ni] | |
| 3' | [x x]-⸢li\d⸣-te-šu₂\d-nu ina [x x] | |
| 4' | [x x x]-bu-u da-[x x] | |
| 5' | [x x]-⸢lak⸣-aš₂-⸢šu⸣ [x x] | |
| 6' | [x x x] ṣu ni [x x] | |
| 7' | [x x x] ⸢du⸣-ub-bu [x x] | |
| b.e. | ||
| 8' | [x x x] {giš}SAR\p [x x] | |
| 9' | [ŠA₃]-bi LUGAL\d ⸢EN⸣-[ia] | |
| r | ||
| 1 | [lu DUG₃.GA] u₃ re-⸢eh⸣-[ti] | |
| 2 | ⸢ŠEŠ⸣-MEŠ\m-šu₂\d-nu u₂-še-⸢ṣu⸣-[ni] | |
| 3 | i-ba-ši {uru}la-bir-a.a | |
| 4 | [i]-⸢ba⸣-ši {uru}sak-ku-a-na\t-a.a | |
| 5 | [an]-⸢nu⸣-rig u₂-ma-a an-nu-te DU-u-⸢ni⸣ | |
| 6 | [ma]-⸢a⸣ A₂.2-ni ina ŠA₃ KUR—aš-šur{ki} | |
| 7 | [ni]-⸢tu⸣-bil₂ ma-a u₂-za-ʾu-u-na\t-ši | |
| 8 | [ma-a ina] E₂.⸢GAL ṭe₃⸣-e-mu | |
| 9 | [x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ an [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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