CT 53, 500 (P313913)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 500 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313913 |
| 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/saa13 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:6] o 1'1'– | [May DNN give to the king, my lord], lo[ng days] and everla[sting years]. [...] is well. May Aššur and Ištar bles[s the king], my [lo]rd. |
| Bottom [1:8] b.e. 6'6'– | On the 24th day [of ...], Parisat-palê came forth [from her temple] to enter the a[kītu] house. All is [very well]. May Aššur and Ištar bless th[e king, my lord ...] |
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' | ⸢GID₂⸣.[DA-MEŠ MU.AN.NA-MEŠ] | |
| 2' | da-[ra-ti lid-di-nu] | |
| 3' | DI-mu ⸢a⸣-[na x x x x] | |
| 4' | aš-šur {d}15 [a-na LUGAL] | |
| b.e. | ||
| 5' | ⸢EN⸣-ia lik-⸢ru⸣-[bu] | |
| 6' | UD-mu UD 24-⸢KAM⸣ [x x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1 | {d}TAR—pal-le-⸢e⸣ [x x] | |
| 2 | ta-tu-ṣi-a E₂—⸢a₂⸣-[ki-it] E₂—⸢a₂⸣-[ki-it] | |
| 3 | e-ra-bu DI-mu [a—dan-niš] | |
| 4 | aš-šur {d}15 a-na [LUGAL EN-ia] | |
| 5 | lik-ru-bu [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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