CT 53, 479 (P313892)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 479 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313892 |
| 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 [2:3] o 3'3'–o 3'3' | [......] his towns |
| Obverse [4:5] o 5'5'–o 5'5' | [... ...-ahh]e-lešir [...] the paths |
| Obverse [5:7] o 6'6'–o 7'7' | Let them give me [th]is [..., and I will ...... d]o the king's work. |
| Obverse [7:8] o 8'8'–o 8'8' | The enemy |
| Obverse [8:9] o 9'9'–o 9'9' | [......] 10 towns |
| Reverse [0:1] r 1'1'–r 1'1' | [......] the temple of Nergal |
| Reverse [1:2] r 2'2'–r 2'2' | [......] the yield of his threshing floor |
| Reverse [2:3] r 3'3'–r 3'3' | [......]s in ...ing the seed |
| Reverse [3:4] r 4'4'–r 4'4' | [...] became good |
| Reverse [4:5] r 5'5'–r 5'5' | [......] Kar-Šamaš |
| Reverse [5:6] r 6'6'–r 6'6' | [... bec]ame good |
| Reverse [6:7] r 7'7'–r 7'7' | [... they culti]vated |
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] ⸢x⸣ | |
| 2' | [x x x x x x x]-ra | |
| 3' | [x x x x x x] URU-MEŠ\m-šu₂ | |
| 4' | [x x x x x]-ba-tu\t-u₂\m-a | |
| 5' | [x x x x]-⸢MEŠ⸣—GIŠ pa-da\d-na-te | |
| 6' | [x x x an]-⸢ni⸣-tu₂ li-te-nu-ni | |
| 7' | [x x x x]+⸢x⸣-pa dul\y-lu LUGAL | |
| 8' | [x x x x x]-uš {lu₂}KUR₂ | |
| 9' | [x x x x x x] 10 URU⸣-MEŠ-ni\d | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [x x x x x x x x] ⸢E₂—{d⸣}MAŠ.MAŠ | |
| 2' | [x x x x x]-ni te-lit ad-ri-šu₂ | |
| 3' | [x x x x x]-MEŠ\m {še}NUMUN\d ina pa-ra-zi | |
| 4' | [x x x x] ⸢i⸣-di\d-im-qi | |
| 5' | [x x x x] {⸢uru⸣}KAR—{d}UTU | |
| 6' | [x x x x i]-⸢di\d⸣-mi₃-iq | |
| 7' | [x x x x e-ta]-ar-šu | |
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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