CT 53, 446 (P313859)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 446 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313859 |
| 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 [1:2] o 2'2'–o 2'2' | [...] the king of El[am ...] |
| Obverse [2:3] o 3'3'–o 3'3' | [...] Now t[hen ...] |
| Obverse [3:4] o 4'4'–o 4'4' | [... the] 'mu[le]-house man' [...] |
| Obverse [4:5] o 5'5'–o 5'5' | [to the king], my lord [......] |
| Obverse [5:6] o 6'6'–o 6'6' | [...] the face of [......] |
| Obverse [6:7] o 7'7'–o 7'7' | [Merodach]-Baladan who [...] |
| Obverse [7:8] o 8'8'–o 8'8' | [...] the king, my lord [...] |
| Obverse [8:9] o 9'9'–o 9'9' | [...] how that which [...] |
| Obverse [9:10] o 10'10'–o 10'10' | [...] the soul [...] |
| Obverse [10:11] o 11'11'–o 11'11' | [...] Nabû-ereš [...] |
| Obverse [11:12] o 12'12'–o 12'12' | [...] a citizen of Borsippa [...] |
| Obverse [12:13] o 13'13'–o 13'13' | [...] has [...ed o]n him [...] |
| Obverse [13:14] o 14'14'–o 14'14' | [...] Borsippa [...] |
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]-⸢u-a x⸣+[x x x x x x] | |
| 2' | [x x] LUGAL {kur}⸢NIM⸣.[MA{ki} x x x] | |
| 3' | [x x] ⸢u₂⸣-ma-a ⸢an⸣-[nu-rig x x x] | |
| 4' | [x {lu₂v]}ša\d—E₂—ku-[din x x x x x] | |
| 5' | [a-na LUGAL] be-li₂-ia ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x] | |
| 6' | [x x x] pa-ni ša\d ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x] | |
| 7' | {1}{d}AMAR.UTU]—A—AŠ ša\d {lu₂v}[x x x x] | |
| 8' | [x x x]+⸢x⸣ LUGAL be-li₂ ⸢x⸣+[x x x x] | |
| 9' | [x x x] a-ke-e ša\d ⸢šu⸣-[x x x] | |
| 10' | [x x x x]+⸢x⸣ nu-up-šu-tu₂ lu [x x x] | |
| 11' | [x x x] {1}{d}PA—APIN-[eš x x] | |
| 12' | [x x x] DUMU—BAR₂.SIPA\mm{[ki} DUMU—BAR₂.SIPA\mm{[ki} x x] | |
| 13' | [x x x ina] UGU-hi-šu₂ ir-ti\t-[x x x] | |
| 14' | [x x x x] ⸢BAR₂.SIPA\mm⸣{[ki} 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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