CT 53, 496 (P313909)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 496 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313909 |
| 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/saa21 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:1] o 1'1'–o 1'1' | [...... Ba]bylon |
| Obverse [1:2] o 2'2'–o 2'2' | [......] words |
| Obverse [2:3] o 3'3'–o 3'3' | [...... i]s placed |
| Obverse [3:4] o 4'4'–o 4'4' | [...... will] spare |
| Obverse [4:5] o 5'5'–o 5'5' | [......]when/if |
| Obverse [5:6] o 6'6'–o 6'6' | [......] Assyria |
| Obverse [6:7] o 7'7'–o 7'7' | [......] his [...] |
| Obverse [7:8] o 8'8'–o 8'8' | [......] He may not eat fish, |
| Obverse [8:9] o 9'9'–o 9'9' | [he shall drink] beer, and he will be well. |
| Obverse [9:10] o 10'10'–o 10'10' | [I swear by Aššur and] Marduk, my gods, |
| Obverse [10:11] o 11'11'–o 11'11' | [that ......] Elam |
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 TIN].⸢TIR{ki⸣} | |
| 2' | [x x x x x x x x] dib-bi | |
| 3' | [x x x x x x x] ⸢ša₂⸣-kin | |
| 4' | [x x x x x x x] ⸢ga⸣-ma-al | |
| 5' | [x x x x x x x] ki-i | |
| 6' | [x x x x x x x] ⸢x⸣ KUR—AN.ŠAR₂{ki} | |
| 7' | [x x x x x x x x]-ti-i-šu₂ | |
| 8' | [x x x x x x x] KU₆-MEŠ NU KU₂ KAŠ | |
| 9' | [NAG x x x x x x]-ma AL.SILIM | |
| 10' | [x x x x x x {d]}AMAR.UTU DINGIR-MEŠ-e-a | |
| 11' | [x x x x x x x] {kur}NIM.MA{ki} | |
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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