CT 53, 490 (P313903)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 490 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313903 |
| 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 [0:3] o 1o 1–o 33 | [To the king, my lord: your servant Šamaš-belu-uṣur. Good heal]th to the king, my lord! |
| Obverse [3:6] o 44–o 66 | [Now th]en Bib[u...] is s[ending] two men, mag[istrates of Dur]-Ladinni, [to the k]ing, my lord: |
| Obverse [6:7] o 77–o 77 | [...]nima, chief [...]; |
| Obverse [7:8] o 88–o 88 | [...]nu, "son" of [...] |
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 | [a-na LUGAL BE-ia] | |
| 2 | [ARAD-ka {1}{d}UTU—EN—PAB] | |
| 3 | [lu DI]-⸢mu⸣ a-na ⸢LUGAL⸣ BE-ia [o] | |
| 4 | [an-nu]-⸢rig⸣ 02 ERIM-MEŠ {lu₂v}⸢GAL⸣—[x x] | |
| 5 | {[uru}BAD₃]—la-di\d-ni {1}bi-⸢bu⸣-[x x] | |
| 6 | [a-na] ⸢LUGAL\t⸣ BE-ia is-[sap-ra] | |
| 7 | [x x x x]-ni\d-ma {lu₂v}⸢GAL⸣—[x x] | |
| 8 | [x x x x x]-nu {lu₂v}DUMU—[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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