CT 53, 498 (P313911)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 498 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313911 |
| 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 [0:2] o 1o 1–o 22 | [Your servant Ma]rduk-šarru-uṣur: [Good health t]o the k[ing, my lord]! |
| Reverse [0:1] r 1'1'–r 1'1' | [...] came[ls ...] |
| Reverse [2:9] r 3'3'–r 9'9' | Now then [I am sending] with my messenger one [...] who saw h[im]. Let the king, my lord, send a [bodyguard] with him [on ac]count of the women o[f the ...] of Dur-Bel-il[a'i]. |
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 | [ARAD-ka {1}{d]}⸢AMAR⸣.UTU—MAN—PAB | |
| 2 | [lu-u DI-mu] ⸢a⸣-na ⸢x⸣+[x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [x x x] {⸢anše⸣}gam-ma-[li x x] | |
| 2' | [x x]+⸢x⸣-ka ri-⸢x⸣+[x x] | |
| 3' | an-nu-rig\t 01.en [x x] | |
| 4' | ša\ydm e-mu-ru\d-⸢šu⸣-[ni] | |
| 5' | TA@v\m {lu₂v}A—KIN-⸢ia⸣ {lu₂v}A—KIN-⸢ia⸣ [a-sap-ra] | |
| 6' | LUGAL be-li₂ {lu₂v}[qur-bu-ti] | |
| 7' | i-si-šu\d liš\d-pur-[ra] | |
| 8' | [ina] UGU MI₂-MEŠ\t ⸢ša\ydm⸣ [x x] | |
| 9' | ⸢ša⸣ {uru}BAD₃\p—EN—⸢DINGIR⸣-[a.a] | |
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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