CT 53, 504 (P313917)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 504 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313917 |
| 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 [1:2] o 2'2'–o 2'2' | [... th]at the kin[g ......] |
| Obverse [2:3] o 3'3'–o 3'3' | Qabaya [...] |
| Obverse [3:4] o 4'4'–o 4'4' | [w]ho wen[t ...] |
| Obverse [4:5] o 5'5'–o 5'5' | [crossed] the Tigris |
| Obverse [5:6] o 6'6'–o 6'6' | [and w]ent [t]o Dur-Ku[rigalzu]. |
| Obverse [6:8] o 7'7'–o 8'8' | The river [...] |
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] kur [x x x x] | |
| 2' | [x x] ⸢ša\ym LUGAL\t⸣ [x x x x] | |
| 3' | {1}qa-ba\t-a.a [x x x] | |
| 4' | ⸢ša\ym⸣ il-lik-[u-ni x x x] | |
| 5' | {⸢id₂⸣}di-ig\d-lat [e-te-bir] | |
| 6' | [a]-⸢na⸣ {uru}BAD₃\m—ku-[ri-gal-zi] | |
| 7' | ⸢it⸣-ta-lak\y {id₂}[x x x] | |
| 8' | [x x]+⸢x⸣-bi il\m-[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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