CT 53, 471 (P313884)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 471 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313884 |
| 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' | "[......] |
| Obverse [2:3] o 3'3'–o 3'3' | [...] very [mu]ch [...] |
| Obverse [3:4] o 4'4'–o 4'4' | "[... comple]ted [...] |
| Obverse [4:5] o 5'5'–o 5'5' | [...] of hors[es] |
| Obverse [5:6] o 6'6'–o 6'6' | [...] oxen, 1,000 she[ep ...] |
| Obverse [6:8] o 7'7'–o 8'8' | [...] later [...] |
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]-a {⸢anše⸣}[x x] | |
| 2' | [x x x x x x] ma-a i-[x x x] | |
| 3' | [x x x ma-aʾ]-da a—dan-niš ⸢x⸣+[x x] | |
| 4' | [x x x x]-⸢li⸣-mu-ni ma-a [x x] | |
| 5' | [x x x x] u ša\dm {anše}KUR.⸢RA⸣-[MEŠ] | |
| 6' | [x x x] ⸢GUD⸣-MEŠ 01 lim ⸢UDU⸣-[MEŠ x] | |
| 7' | [x x x x]+⸢x⸣ ha-ra-ma-ma [x x x] | |
| 8' | [x x x x x x] ma [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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