CT 53, 483 (P313896)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 483 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313896 |
| 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 |
|---|---|
| Obverse [1:2] 2'2'–2'2' | [...... the Path of] the Anu stars |
| Obverse [3:4] 4'4'–4'4' | [......] touched |
| Obverse [4:5] 5'5'–5'5' | [......] made it pass by |
| Obverse [5:6] 6'6'–6'6' | [......] is good |
| Obverse [7:8] 8'8'–8'8' | [......] where the king, my lord |
| Obverse [8:9] 9'9'–9'9' | [...... an]ything |
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) |
|---|---|---|
| 1' | [x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣+[x] | |
| 2' | [x x x x KASKAL šu-ut {d]}a-nim [x] | |
| 3' | [x x x x x x] ṣi ir [x] | |
| 4' | [x x x x x x] ⸢il⸣-ta-pat | |
| 5' | [x x x x x x] ⸢us⸣-se-ti-⸢iq⸣ | |
| 6' | [x x x x x x] ⸢ṭa⸣-a-ba | |
| 7' | [x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣-lak | |
| 8' | [x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ E₂ LUGAL be-li₂ | |
| 9' | [x x x x x x me]-me-e-⸢ni⸣ |
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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