CT 53, 445 (P313858)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 445 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313858 |
| 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 [1:3] o 2'2'–o 3'3' | Later he went and [assembled] the m[en]; 50 of them we[re] killed. [He proclaimed]: |
| Obverse [3:5] o 4'4'–o 5'5' | "Y[ou] are subjects of the king, my lord; [y]ou are no more subjects of the U[rarṭian]!" |
| Obverse [5:7] o 6'6'– | They submitted [......] |
| Reverse [0:1] r 1r 1–r 1r 1 | [...] stro[ng ......] |
| Reverse [2:3] r 33–r 33 | [...] 2,000 [......] |
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⸣ [x x x x x x] | |
| 2' | ur-⸢ke-te⸣ i-ta-la-⸢ak {lu₂v⸣}[ERIM-MEŠ\m up-tah-hir] | |
| 3' | 50 ⸢ina ŠA₃⸣-bi-šu₂-nu GAZ-⸢MEŠ⸣ [x x x] | |
| 4' | ma-a {lu₂v}ARAD-MEŠ\m-ni ša\dym LUGAL EN-ia₂ at-⸢tu₂⸣-[nu] | |
| 5' | ma-a la {lu₂v}ARAD-MEŠ\m-ni ša\dym {kur}⸢ur⸣-[ar-ṭa-a.a] | |
| 6' | ⸢at⸣-tu₂-nu ih-ta-an-šu₂ [x x x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1 | [x x x x] KALAG-⸢MEŠ⸣ [x x x x] | |
| 2 | [x x x x]-te ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x] | |
| 3 | [x x x] 02 lim ⸢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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