CT 53, 476 (P313889)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 476 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313889 |
| 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' | [...] the king, [my lo]rd |
| Obverse [2:3] o 3'3'–o 3'3' | [... s]peaks |
| Obverse [3:4] o 4'4'–o 4'4' | ["...] your work |
| Obverse [4:5] o 5'5'–o 5'5' | ["...] Why do you not glaze bricks in [...]?" |
| Obverse [5:11] o 6'6'– | The [...]-man [ga]ve [...], saying: "If there is much [...]" |
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] ṭu ⸢kab⸣ [x x] | |
| 2' | [x x x] LUGAL be-[li₂] | |
| 3' | [x x x i]-da-bu\p-bu\p-ni\d | |
| 4' | [x x x] dul-la-ku-nu | |
| 5' | [x x x] ⸢a⸣-ta-a SIG₄\p-MEŠ\m ina [x x] | |
| 6' | [x x x] la ta-ša₂-ha-ṭa\d {lu₂v}⸢x⸣+[x x] | |
| 7' | [x x x]-⸢ta⸣-na ma-a šum₂-⸢mu⸣ [x] | |
| 8' | [x x] ⸢ma⸣-ʾa-ad ⸢x⸣+[x x x] | |
| b.e. | ||
| 9' | [x x x] ⸢ta ti⸣ [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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