CT 53, 501 (P313914)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 501 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313914 |
| 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' | [...... the ar]my |
| Obverse [2:3] o 3'3'–o 3'3' | [......] ca[m]e |
| Obverse [3:4] o 4'4'–o 4'4' | [......] gardens |
| Obverse [4:5] o 5'5'–o 5'5' | [......] let [m]e do |
| Obverse [5:6] o 6'6'–o 6'6' | [......] bread |
| Obverse [6:7] o 7'7'–o 7'7' | [......] I shall feed him |
| Obverse [7:8] o 8'8'–o 8'8' | [...... of] my [... are] many |
| Obverse [8:9] o 9'9'–o 9'9' | [......] it is numerous too |
| Obverse [9:10] o 10'10'–o 10'10' | [...... Aššur-be]lu-taqqin |
| Obverse [11:12] o 12'12'–o 12'12' | [......] my country |
| Reverse [1:2] r 2'2'–r 2'2' | [......] Šamaš-bani-apli |
| Reverse [2:3] r 3'3'–r 3'3' | [...... wi]th the elders |
| Reverse [3:4] r 4'4'–r 4'4' | [...... i]n(to) the presence |
| Reverse [4:5] r 5'5'–r 5'5' | [...... the k]ing, my lord |
| Reverse [6:7] r 7'7'–r 7'7' | [...... ki]ngship |
| Reverse [7:8] r 8'8'–r 8'8' | [......] they [will give] to him |
| Reverse [9:10] r 10'10'–r 10'10' | [......] him |
| Reverse [10:11] r 11'11'–r 11'11' | [......] field |
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 x e]-⸢mu-qi⸣ | |
| 2' | [x x x x x x x x x]-ta | |
| 3' | [x x x x x x x] ⸢x⸣ it-tal-⸢ka⸣ | |
| 4' | [x x x x x x x] ⸢x⸣ {giš}SAR-MEŠ | |
| 5' | [x x x x x x x] ⸢le⸣-pu-uš | |
| 6' | [x x x x x x x] ⸢mi₃⸣-ni NINDA-HI.A | |
| 7' | [x x x x x x x x] u₂-šak-kal-šu₂ | |
| 8' | [x x x x x x pa]-⸢ni⸣-ia ma-aʾ-da-ti | |
| 9' | [x x x x x x x x]-ni ma-aʾ-da-ta-ma | |
| 10' | [x x x x {1}aš-šur]—⸢EN⸣—LAL-in | |
| 11' | [x x x x x x x x]-a-nu | |
| 12' | [x x x x x x x x] KUR-ia | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [x x x x x x x] ⸢x x⸣+[x x] | |
| 2' | [x x x x x x x {1}{d}UTU—DU₃—⸢A⸣ | |
| 3' | [x x x x x x a]-⸢na⸣ {lu₂v}AB.BA-MEŠ | |
| 4' | [x x x x x x x] ⸢ina⸣ pa-an | |
| 5' | [x x x x x x LUGAL] ⸢be⸣-li₂-ia | |
| 6' | [x x x x x x x x] niš-mi | |
| 7' | [x x x x x x x x] ⸢LUGAL⸣-u-tu₂ | |
| 8' | [x x x x x x x x x] be-li₂-šu₂-nu | |
| 9' | [x x x x x x x] ⸢x ki⸣ | |
| 10' | [x x x x x x x] ⸢šu⸣ | |
| 11' | [x x x x x x x x] A.ŠA₃ | |
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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