CT 53, 451 (P313864)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 451 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313864 |
| 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/saa01 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:3] 11–33 | [To the king, my lord: your servant ... Good health to the king, my lord! |
| Obverse [3:10] 44–1010 | [As to what] the king, [my lord wr]ote to m[e: "After you] have fin[ished] the bull col[ossi, do your] work ......] work [...... |
| Reverse [0:3] r 1'1'–r 3'3' | ......] I shall load up and bring in the [...]. |
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) |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | [a-na LUGAL EN-ia] | |
| 2 | [ARAD-ka {1}x x x x] | |
| 3 | [lu DI-mu a-na LUGAL EN-ia] | |
| 4 | [ina UGU x x x x] | |
| 5 | [ša] ⸢LUGAL⸣ [be-li₂] | |
| 6 | [iš]-pur-an-[ni ma-a ki-ma] | |
| 7 | {⸢na₄⸣}{d}LAMA.{⸢d⸣}[ALAD ša x x] | |
| 8 | ⸢tu⸣-ug\d-⸢da⸣-[mir-u-ni] | |
| 9 | ⸢ma⸣-a dul-la-[ku-nu x x x] | |
| 10 | [ma]-⸢a⸣ dul-⸢la⸣-[x x x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [x x] še iš [x x x] | |
| 2' | [a]-ma-ta-[ha x x] | |
| 3' | ⸢u₂⸣-še-⸢ra⸣-[ba o] | |
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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