CT 53, 477 (P313890)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 477 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313890 |
| 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/saa10 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Reverse [1:7] r 2'2'–r 7'7' | Perhaps the king, [my lor]d [will say]: "[...] what has been accepted" — the king, my (or our) lord [...] to the brothers of [Assurbanipal], [your] lordly sons. |
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) |
|---|---|---|
| r | ||
| 1' | ⸢x⸣ [x x x x x] | |
| 2' | is—su-ur-⸢ri⸣ LUGAL ⸢be⸣-[li i-qab-bi] | |
| 3' | ma-a ša₂ ma-hi-ir-u-ni [x x x] | |
| 4' | a-na ŠEŠ-MEŠ-šu₂ ša [x x x x x] | |
| 5' | DUMU-MEŠ EN-⸢MEŠ⸣-[ka x x x x] | |
| 6' | LUGAL be-li ni sa [x x x x x] | |
| 7' | [x x x x x] | |
Sources & licences
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- 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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