CT 53, 434 (P313847)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 434 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313847 |
| 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/saa13 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Bottom [0:2] b.e. 1b.e. 1– | 18 E[gyptian] horses, |
| Reverse [0:2] r 1r 1–r 22 | 157 cavalry mounts: |
| Reverse [2:3] r 33–r 33 | 175 horses in all; |
| Reverse [3:4] r 44–r 44 | 13 mules — |
| Reverse [4:6] r 55–r 66 | a total of 188 horses and mules have come in today. |
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) |
|---|---|---|
| b.e. | ||
| 1 | 18 KUR-MEŠ {kur}⸢mu⸣-[ṣur-a.a] | |
| r | ||
| 1 | 01 me 57 KUR-MEŠ | |
| 2 | ša BAD-HAL-li | |
| 3 | PAB 01 me 75 KUR-MEŠ | |
| 4 | 13 {anše}ku-din | |
| 5 | PAB 01 me 88 KUR-MEŠ {anše}ku-din | |
| 6 | UD-mu an-ni-u | |
| 7 | e-tar-bu-u-ni | |
Sources & licences
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