CT 53, 464 (P313877)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 464 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313877 |
| 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 [0:1] o 1'1'–o 1'1' | [......] I asked |
| Obverse [1:2] o 2'2'–o 2'2' | [......] to Assyria |
| Obverse [2:3] o 3'3'–o 3'3' | [......] are transporting |
| Obverse [3:4] o 4'4'–o 4'4' | [......] Ubru-Nabû |
| Obverse [4:5] o 5'5'–o 5'5' | [... about which] the king, my lord, w[rote to me] |
| Obverse [5:6] o 6'6'–o 6'6' | [......] which to [...] |
| Obverse [8:10] o 9'9'– | [...... gu]ard [...] |
| Bottom [0:1] b.e. 10'b.e. 10'–b.e. 10'b.e. 10' | [......] of the k[ing] |
| Bottom [1:3] b.e. 11'11'– | [......] not [...] |
| Reverse [0:1] r 1r 1–r 1r 1 | [......] I ...[...] |
| Reverse [1:2] r 22–r 22 | [......] Kum[me] |
| Reverse [2:3] r 33–r 33 | [......] did not pas[s] |
| Reverse [3:5] r 44–r 55 | [......] to Si[...] |
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] ⸢a-sa-al⸣ | |
| 2' | [x x x x x x] a-na KUR—aš-šur | |
| 3' | [x x x x x x]-MEŠ i-za-bi-lu | |
| 4' | [x x x x x {1}SUHUŠ—{d}AG | |
| 5' | [x x x x x x] LUGAL\t EN iš\t-[pur-an-ni] | |
| 6' | [x x x x x x] ša a-na [x x] | |
| 7' | [x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣-u-ni [x x x] | |
| 8' | [x x x x x x x] ⸢x⸣ [x x x] | |
| 9' | [x x x x x x EN].NUN\m ⸢x⸣+[x x] | |
| b.e. | ||
| 10' | [x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ ša ⸢LUGAL⸣ | |
| 11' | [x x x x x]-⸢ni⸣ la\p ⸢x⸣+[x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1 | [x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣-ki at-[x] | |
| 2 | [x x x x x] {⸢uru⸣}ku-um-[me] | |
| 3 | [x x x x x x] la\p e-ti-⸢iq⸣ | |
| 4 | [x x x x x x] ⸢a⸣-na {1}si-⸢x⸣+[x x] | |
| 5 | [x x x x x x x x] ⸢ib⸣ [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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