CT 53, 427 (P313840)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 427 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313840 |
| 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 [0:1] o 1'1'–o 1'1' | [... Ur]zana [...] |
| Obverse [1:2] o 2'2'–o 2'2' | [...] the fort[s ...] |
| Obverse [2:3] o 3'3'–o 3'3' | [... w]e capture; in the ci[ty ...] |
| Obverse [3:4] o 4'4'–o 4'4' | [... t]o the river [...] |
| Obverse [4:5] o 5'5'–o 5'5' | [...] opposite hi[m ...] |
| Obverse [5:6] o 6'6'–o 6'6' | even [Rus]a against [...] |
| Obverse [6:7] o 7'7'–o 7'7' | [... they pl]aced him [...] |
| Obverse [7:10] o 8'8'–o 10'10' | [...] they are [...] |
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 {1}ur]-za-⸢ni⸣ [x x x x x] | |
| 2' | [x x x] {⸢uru⸣}HAL.ṢU\d-⸢MEŠ⸣ [x x x] | |
| 3' | [x x x] ⸢nu⸣-ṣa-bat ina ŠA₃ {⸢uru⸣}[x x] | |
| 4' | [x x x ina] UGU ID₂ u₂-[x x x] | |
| 5' | [x x x] ina pu-tu\m-uš-⸢šu₂⸣ [x x] | |
| 6' | [x x {1}ur-sa]-a-ma ina UGU-hi [x x x] | |
| 7' | [x x x i]-sak\t-nu-uš [x x x] | |
| 8' | [x x x x x] šu-nu-ni [x x x] | |
| 9' | [x x x x x] ša\dy EN [x x x] | |
| 10' | [x x x x x] ⸢la⸣ [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)
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