CT 53, 461 (P313874)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 461 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313874 |
| 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] o 1o 1–o 33 | [To the king], my lord: [your servant] Tariba-Issar. [Good health] to the king, [my lord]! |
| Reverse [0:7] r 1'1'– | Now, what (orders) does the king, my lord, send? Let me go [to pile] up [the bar]ley I have collected, [until] my word [has arri]ved ......]. |
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-ia₂ | |
| 2 | [ARAD-ka {1}⸢ta⸣-ri-ba—15 | |
| 3 | [lu DI-mu] a-na LU₂ | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [u₂]-ma-a\d mi-nu | |
| 2' | ⸢ša⸣ LUGAL be-li₂ i-ša₂-par-u-ni\t | |
| 3' | {[še}PAD]-ME ša\p u₂-pa-hi-ir-u-ni\t | |
| 4' | [ina ka-ra]-⸢ri⸣ la-al-⸢lik⸣ | |
| r.e. | ||
| 5 | [a-du E₂] a-bi-ti | |
| 6 | [ta-qar]-⸢ri⸣-bu-ni\t | |
| 7 | [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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