CT 53, 459 (P313872)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 459 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313872 |
| 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' | [......]s pas[sed ...] |
| Obverse [2:3] o 3'3'–o 3'3' | [...... i]lku dues [...] |
| Obverse [3:4] o 4'4'–o 4'4' | [......] the troops of As[syr]ia |
| Obverse [4:5] o 5'5'–o 5'5' | [......] in Sippar [...] |
| Obverse [5:6] o 6'6'–o 6'6' | [......] found out [...] |
| Obverse [6:7] o 7'7'–o 7'7' | [......] Nabû-balliṭann[i ...] |
| Obverse [7:9] o 8'8'–o 9'9' | [......] Uruk [...] |
| Reverse [1:2] r 2'2'–r 2'2' | [......]eans [...] |
| Reverse [2:3] r 3'3'–r 3'3' | [... who dwe]lt [...] |
| Reverse [3:4] r 4'4'–r 4'4' | [......] 506 [...] |
| Reverse [4:5] r 5'5'–r 5'5' | [......]s from [...] |
| Reverse [5:7] r 6'6'–r 7'7' | [...... i]n the can[ebreak ...] |
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] ⸢ri⸣ [x x] | |
| 2' | [x x x x x x x]-⸢MEŠ⸣ e-ti\t-[x x] | |
| 3' | [x x x x x x] ⸢il⸣-ka-ni [x x] | |
| 4' | [x x x x x x]-⸢bu⸣ {lu₂v}ERIM-MEŠ\m KUR—aš-[šur{ki]} | |
| 5' | [x x x x x x]-⸢ni⸣ ina {uru}si-pur\p [x x] | |
| 6' | [x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣-har-ri-ṣi [x x] | |
| 7' | [x x x x {1}{d]}PA—bal-liṭ-an-⸢ni⸣ [x x] | |
| 8' | [x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ UNUG\p{kiy} ⸢il⸣-[x x] | |
| 9' | [x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣-bi-šu₂ [x x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [x x x x x x x] ka [x x x] | |
| 2' | [x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣-a.a gi-i-[x x] | |
| 3' | [x x x x x x]-šib-u-ni\d [x x] | |
| 4' | [x x x x x x] 05 me 06 a-[x x] | |
| 5' | [x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣-MEŠ\m TA\m ŠA₃ ⸢x⸣+[x x] | |
| 6' | [x x x x x] ⸢ina⸣ ŠA₃ {gi}a-[pi x x] | |
| 7' | [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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