CT 53, 491 (P313904)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 491 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313904 |
| 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/saa01 · 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 [serva]nt Inurta-il[ai]. |
| Reverse [0:4] r 1'1'– | ......] have cr[ossed] the river on [the ...th] of Nisan and [left] for the Palace to greet (the king). |
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 ⸢EN-ia⸣ | |
| 2 | ⸢ARAD⸣-ka {1}{d}MAŠ—DINGIR-[a.a] | |
| 3 | [x x]+⸢x⸣ [x x x x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | ina {⸢iti}BARAG⸣ [UD x-KAM₂] | |
| 2' | ID₂ e-[tab-ru-ni] | |
| 3' | a-na\t ⸢DI⸣-[mu] | |
| r.e. | ||
| 4 | ina E₂.GAL [DU-u-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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