CT 53, 489 (P313902)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 489 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313902 |
| 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 [0:1] o 1'1'–o 1'1' | "the [...] |
| Obverse [1:2] o 2'2'–o 2'2' | "there are two [...s] fr[om ...] |
| Obverse [2:3] o 3'3'–o 3'3' | they rule over them [...] |
| Obverse [3:4] o 4'4'–o 4'4' | There are 5 Hatal[leans], |
| Obverse [4:5] o 5'5'–o 5'5' | men [from] |
| Obverse [5:6] o 6'6'–o 6'6' | Minu[' ...] |
| Obverse [6:9] o 7'7'– | are stay[ing] in the town [...] |
| Reverse [0:1] r 1r 1–r 1r 1 | 4[0] men [...] |
| Reverse [1:2] r 22–r 22 | in [......] |
| Reverse [2:3] r 33–r 33 | 2 [......] |
| Reverse [4:5] r 88–r 88 | 1 [......] |
| Reverse [5:6] r 99–r 99 | 1 [......] |
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' | ma-a {⸢lu₂v}x⸣-[x x x x] | |
| 2' | ma 02 šu₂\d-nu\d ⸢TA@v\m⸣ [x x x] | |
| 3' | i-be-lu-šu-nu [x x x] | |
| 4' | {lu₂v}ha-tal-[la-a.a] | |
| 5' | 05 šu₂\d-nu {lu₂v}ERIM-[MEŠ x x] | |
| 6' | {urud}mi-nu-[uʾ x x x] | |
| 7' | ina {urud}x-[x x x] | |
| 8' | kam₂\t-mu-[su] | |
| r | ||
| 1 | 40 {lu₂v⸣}ERIM-ME [x x x] | |
| 2 | ina ŠA₃ [x x x x x x] | |
| 3 | 02 [x x x x x x x] | |
| 7 | ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x x x] | |
| 8 | 01 [x x x x x x x x] | |
| 9 | 01 [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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