CT 53, 463 (P313876)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 463 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313876 |
| 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 1'1'–o 3'3' | ... wrote to] you: "The wife of [the] Treasurer and [her] daughters should go [to] Assyria"; |
| Obverse [3:8] o 4'4'–o 8'8' | you wrote the sealed royal order and dispatched it to Bel- duri, (but when) I sent my me[ssenger] to Damascus, [he] gave [him the wife] only. |
| Obverse [8:9] o 9'9'–o 9'9' | I have written to [... abo]ut the daughters whom he he[ld back ... |
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-ka⸣ ma-a ⸢MI₂⸣-[šu₂] | |
| 2' | [ša] {⸢lu₂v⸣}IGI.DUB\dm a-di DUMU.MI₂-MEŠ\m-[ša₂] | |
| 3' | [ina] ⸢KUR⸣—aš-šur lu tal-li-⸢ka⸣ | |
| 4' | ⸢at⸣-ta-ma un-qi\m LUGAL ta-sa-[ṭar] | |
| 5' | [ina] UGU {1}EN—BAD₃ tu-se-bil₂ | |
| 6' | {[lu₂v}A]—⸢KIN⸣-ia {[lu₂v}A]—⸢KIN⸣-ia ina {uru}di-maš-qi\m a-sa-⸢pa⸣-[ra] | |
| 7' | [MI₂-šu₂] u₂-de-e-ša₂ i-tan-[na-šu₂] | |
| 8' | [ina] ⸢UGU⸣ DUMU.MI₂-MEŠ\m ša\d ⸢ik⸣-[lu-u-ni] | |
| 9' | [x x a]-sa-par i-[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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