CT 53, 432 (P313845)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 432 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313845 |
| 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' | [... h]ow not [...] |
| Obverse [1:2] o 2'2'–o 2'2' | [......] "the peopl[e ...] |
| Obverse [2:3] o 3'3'–o 3'3' | [...]; "how [...] |
| Obverse [3:4] o 4'4'–o 4'4' | [...] "an inter[preter] |
| Obverse [4:5] o 5'5'–o 5'5' | [...] "the audience gi[ft ...] |
| Obverse [5:7] o 6'6'–o 7'7' | [...] "the in[terpreter] |
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 a]-⸢ke⸣-e ⸢la⸣ [x x x] | |
| 2' | [x x x x]-⸢a⸣ ma-a {lu₂vy}UN-⸢MEŠ⸣ [x x] | |
| 3' | [x x x x]-ša₂ ma a-ke-e [x x x] | |
| 4' | [x x x]-⸢u₂⸣-ni ma-a {lu₂vy}tar-[gu-ma-nu] | |
| 5' | [x x x x]-a ma-a na-mur-[tu₂ x x x] | |
| 6' | [x x x x]+⸢x-la⸣ ma-a {lu₂vy}⸢tar⸣-[x x x] | |
| 7' | [x x x x x x x x] ⸢a⸣ [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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