CT 53, 431 (P313844)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 431 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313844 |
| 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' | [...] watch [...] |
| Obverse [1:5] o 2'2'–o 5'5' | I will com[e for my wo]rk assignment. [Let the king, my lord, n]ot say: "[He is] not [...], he does not do any [work], he does not [...] leg [...]!" |
| Obverse [5:7] o 6'6'–o 7'7' | Now I have [...]ed the royal bodyguard [... who] came |
| Obverse [7:8] o 8'8'–o 8'8' | [...] (by) the gods of the k[ing, my lord] |
| Obverse [8:9] o 9'9'–o 9'9' | [...] I asked and I as[ked ...] |
| Obverse [9:11] o 10'10'–o 11'11' | [...] he did not give [......] |
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 EN.NUN x⸣+[x x x x] | |
| 2' | [ina pi]-⸢il⸣-ki-ia la-al-⸢li⸣-[ka LUGAL be-li₂] | |
| 3' | [lu] ⸢la\p⸣ i-qab-bi ma la\p-⸢a⸣ [x x x] | |
| 4' | [dul-lu] me-me-e-ni\d la\p e-pa-⸢aš₂⸣ [ma-a x x] | |
| 5' | [x x] ⸢pu⸣-ri-di la\p u₂\p-ma-[x x x x] | |
| 6' | [x x] ⸢u₂\p⸣-ma-a {lu₂vy}qur-bu-u-⸢ti⸣ [x x x] | |
| 7' | [ša] il-li\d-kan-ni ak\d-⸢ta⸣-[x x x] | |
| 8' | [x x]-mi₃-i DINGIR-MEŠ-ni\d ša\yd ⸢LUGAL⸣ [EN-ia] | |
| 9' | [x] ⸢as\td⸣-sa-a-la as\td-sa-[x x x x] | |
| 10' | [x] ⸢la\p⸣ id-di-ni\d [x x x x x] | |
| 11' | [x x]-a-te ⸢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)
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