CT 53, 480 (P313893)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 480 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313893 |
| 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 [0:3] o 1'1'–o 3'3' | I pa[rceled out] a plot [of x hectares of field in ...] and gave (it) [to them ...]. |
| Obverse [3:9] o 4'4'– | They had no seed corn [whatever] there, (so) they took 100 (homers) of barley [from ...] instead of [their] seed corn. |
| Reverse [0:1] r 1r 1–r 1r 1 | [The ...] in Zaba[n ...] |
| Reverse [1:2] r 22–r 22 | outside [...] |
| Reverse [2:3] r 33–r 33 | my daughter in [...] |
| Reverse [3:5] r 44–r 55 | I ga[ve ......] |
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' | ⸢E₂⸣ [x ANŠE A.ŠA₃ x x] | |
| 2' | ab-⸢ta⸣-[taq x x x x] | |
| 3' | a-ta-na-⸢aš₂⸣-[ši-na x x x] | |
| 4' | {še}NUMUN\d-MEŠ\m-ši\d-⸢na⸣ [me-me-ni] | |
| 5' | ina ŠA₃-bi la-a-[šu x x] | |
| 6' | 01 me {še}PAD-MEŠ\m [x x x] | |
| 7' | ⸢ku⸣-um {še}NUMUN\d-MEŠ\y-[ši-na] | |
| 8' | ⸢i⸣-ti\t-ši-[a o] | |
| r | ||
| 1 | [x x]+⸢x⸣ ina {uru}za-⸢ban⸣ [x x x] | |
| 2 | [ina] qa-an-⸢ni⸣ [x x x x x] | |
| 3 | DUMU.MI₂ ina [x x x x x] | |
| 4 | a-ta-⸢na⸣-[x x x x x] | |
| 5 | [x]+⸢x 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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