CT 53, 478 (P313891)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 478 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313891 |
| 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/saa05 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:4] o 1'1'– | I entered [... through] the pa[ss of ...r]uni, [mo]unting [...] on mu[les]. |
| Bottom [0:10] b.e. 4'b.e. 4'– | I made 90 soldiers enter Eziat — there is a tower there — and brought 30 soldiers out of it. The vanguard [who] made the soldiers enter [......] |
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] ⸢ne₂⸣-e-⸢ri⸣-[bi] | |
| 2' | [x x x]-⸢ru⸣-u-ni e-⸢ta⸣-[rab] | |
| 3' | [x x]-⸢di⸣ ina ŠA₃ {anšed}ku-⸢din⸣ | |
| b.e. | ||
| 4' | [u₂]-⸢sar⸣-kib 90 {lu₂vy}ERIM-MEŠ\m | |
| 5' | {[uru]}⸢i⸣-si-tu₂ ina ŠA₃-bi | |
| 6' | [ina] ŠA₃ {uru}e-zi-at | |
| 7' | u₂-se-ri-bi | |
| r | ||
| 1 | 30 {lu₂vy}ERIM-MEŠ\m TA ŠA₃-bi | |
| 2 | [u₂]-⸢se⸣-ṣi pa-ni-u-⸢ti\dt⸣ | |
| 3 | [x x] {⸢lu₂v⸣}ERIM-MEŠ\m ina ŠA₃ [x] | |
| 4 | [x x x] ⸢u₂⸣-še-⸢ri⸣-[bu-ni] | |
| 5 | [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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