CT 53, 481 (P313894)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 481 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313894 |
| 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' | according t[o ......] |
| Obverse [2:3] o 3'3'–o 3'3' | in the cit[y ......] |
| Obverse [3:4] o 4'4'–o 4'4' | a writing-board [......] |
| Obverse [4:5] o 5'5'–o 5'5' | to the palace [......] |
| Obverse [5:7] o 6'6'– | in the domestic quarters [......] |
| Bottom [0:5] b.e. 7'b.e. 7'– | They should have sen[t me a sealed order] according to the wr[iting-board], and I would have gi[ven] the barley accordingly, wherever it i[s]. |
| Reverse [2:3] r 33–r 33 | The barley which is in the town Ša[bbu ...]. |
| Reverse [3:4] r 44–r 44 | The rest which is in [...] |
| Reverse [4:5] r 55–r 55 | indeed [......] |
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 x] | |
| 2' | ina pi-⸢ti\t⸣ [x x x x x] | |
| 3' | ina ŠA₃ {⸢uru⸣}[x x x x x] | |
| 4' | {giš}le-ʾu ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x] | |
| 5' | a-na E₂.GAL [x x x x] | |
| 6' | ina E₂—02-e E₂—02-e [x x x x] | |
| b.e. | ||
| 7' | ina pi-ti\t ⸢le⸣-[ʾi x x] | |
| 8' | lu-u-še-bi-⸢lu⸣-[u-ni] | |
| r | ||
| 1 | {še}PAD\m-MEŠ\m be₂-et\m ši-i-⸢ti⸣-[ni] | |
| 2 | ina pi-ti\t lu\m-u ⸢ad⸣-[din] | |
| 3 | {še}PAD-MEŠ\m ša\dm ina {uru}⸢šab⸣-[bu x x] | |
| 4 | re-eh-tu₂ ša\dm ina ⸢ŠA₃⸣-[bi x x] | |
| 5 | i-ba-aš₂-ši ⸢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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