CT 53, 465 (P313878)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 465 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313878 |
| 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 .... Good health] to [the king, my lord! |
| Obverse [3:9] o 44–o 99 | [As to the] master-buil[ders] about whom the king my lord [wrote to me]: "Let them come and work with the magnates [...]! Perhaps [...] they can change [... into] a bull colossus" — |
| Obverse [9:14] o 1010–o 1414 | I have right now [sent the master-builders] to the king, my lord. Perhaps [the magnates] will [say in] the Palace: "[...... |
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 EN-ia] | |
| 2 | [ARAD-ka {1}x x x x] | |
| 3 | [lu DI-mu] ⸢a-na⸣ [LUGAL EN-ia] | |
| 4 | [ina UGU] {lu₂v}⸢TIN⸣-[MEŠ-ia] | |
| 5 | ⸢ša⸣ LUGAL be-li₂ ⸢iš⸣-[pur-an-ni] | |
| 6 | ⸢ma⸣-a lil-lik-u-⸢ni⸣ [x x x] | |
| 7 | ⸢a⸣-di\d {lu₂v}GAL-MEŠ ⸢dul⸣-[lu le-pu-šu₂] | |
| 8 | ma-a i—su-ri ⸢x⸣+[x x x x] | |
| 9 | {⸢na₄⸣}{d}ALAD.{d}LAMA [x x x x] | |
| 10 | ⸢u₂⸣-pa-hu an-nu-⸢rig⸣ {[lu₂v}TIN-MEŠ] | |
| 11 | [ina] UGU LUGAL EN-⸢ia⸣ [u₂-se-bi-la] | |
| 12 | [i]—su\t-ri {lu₂v}[GAL-MEŠ] | |
| 13 | [ina] ⸢E₂⸣.GAL i-[qa-bi-u] | |
| 14 | [ma-a] ⸢x 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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