CT 53, 443 (P313856)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 443 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313856 |
| 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 [0:3] o 1o 1–o 33 | T[o the king, my lord]: your servant [NN]. Good heal[th to the king, my lord]! |
| Obverse [3:10] o 44–o 1010 | The king, my lord, [wrote me]: "The daughter of [NN] is coming, and there are many men [and women] wi[th her]. Let them eat [bread and drink] wi[ne], [......] sweet [oi]l" — |
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 | a-[na LUGAL be-li₂-ia] | |
| 2 | ARAD\p-⸢ka⸣ {1}x x x x x] | |
| 3 | lu-u DI-⸢mu⸣ [a-na LUGAL EN-ia] | |
| 4 | LUGAL be-li₂ [i-sa-ap-ra] | |
| 5 | ma-a DUMU.MI₂ {1}⸢x⸣+[x x x x] | |
| 6 | ta-la-ka ERIM-⸢MEŠ⸣ [x x x] | |
| 7 | ma-aʾ-du-ti i-[si-ša₂ NINDA-MEŠ] | |
| 8 | ⸢ma⸣-a le\m-ku-lu ⸢GEŠTIN⸣-[MEŠ li-si-u] | |
| 9 | [I₃]-⸢MEŠ⸣ DUG₃.GA da\d-[x x x x] | |
| 10 | [x x]-NAM {⸢lu₂vy⸣}[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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