CT 53, 502 (P313915)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 502 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313915 |
| 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 [2:5] o 3'3'–o 5'5' | [As to what you w]rote: "[I will send my] rab-mūgi officer [to you]; speak [kindly] with the (king) of Arpad, and [let] your 'third man' [......]", |
| Obverse [5:8] o 6'6'–o 8'8' | I adjure you by Aššur and my gods: you are not to send your [rab-mūg]i officer to me [under any circumstances! ...... |
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 x] ⸢x⸣+[x x x x] | |
| 2' | [x x x x x {1}{d}x]+⸢x⸣—sa-kip pu-[x x x] | |
| 3' | [x x x ša taš]-⸢pur⸣-an-ni ma-a {lu₂v}GAL—mu-[gi-ia] {lu₂v}GAL—mu-[gi-ia] | |
| 4' | [a-šap-par ma-a TA@v] {uru}ar-pad-da-a.a di-⸢ib⸣-[bi] | |
| 5' | [DUG₃.GA-MEŠ] ⸢du⸣-ub\d-bu ma-a {lu₂v}03.U₅-ka | |
| 6' | [x x x ina] ⸢ŠA₃⸣ aš-šur DINGIR-MEŠ\m-ia u₂-ta-am-me-ka | |
| 7' | [šum-ma {lu₂v}GAL—mu]-⸢gi⸣-ka {lu₂v}GAL—mu]-⸢gi⸣-ka ta-šap-par-an-ni | |
| 8' | [x x x x x x x x x] ⸢lu sa 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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