CT 53, 503 (P313916)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 503 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313916 |
| 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 [2:3] o 3'3'–o 3'3' | [...] mule express [...] |
| Obverse [3:4] o 4'4'–o 4'4' | [...] my teams [...] |
| Obverse [4:5] o 5'5'–o 5'5' | [...] I with [...] |
| Obverse [5:6] o 6'6'–o 6'6' | [... the pr]ovince of Arrapha [...] |
| Obverse [6:7] o 7'7'–o 7'7' | [... t]his [...] my team [...] |
| Obverse [7:8] o 8'8'–o 8'8' | [...] my teams [...] |
| Obverse [8:9] o 9'9'–o 9'9' | [...] teams ...[...] |
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] e\d ⸢x⸣ [x x x x] | |
| 2' | [x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ ka bu [x x x] | |
| 3' | [x x x x] ka-li-e [x x x] | |
| 4' | [x x x x] u₂-⸢ra⸣-te-ia [x x x] | |
| 5' | [x x x] ⸢a⸣-na\t-ku a-di u₂-[x x x] | |
| 6' | [x x] ⸢NAM⸣ {uru}ar₂-arrap-ha ⸢al⸣-[x x] | |
| 7' | [x x] ⸢an⸣-ni-i u₂-ra-a.a ⸢x⸣+[x x x] | |
| 8' | [x x x]-ra u₂-ra-te-ia u₂-⸢x⸣+[x x] | |
| 9' | [x x x] u₂-ra-ME-te u₂-ma-[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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