CT 53, 505 (P313918)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 505 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313918 |
| 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/saa16 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:6] o 1o 1–o 66 | [To the crown prince, my lord: your servant Bel]-iqiša. [May DNN], Enlil, [and DNN bles]s [the crown prince], my [lo]rd. |
| Obverse [7:8] o 88–o 88 | [the ... that is] there |
| Obverse [8:9] o 99–o 99 | [and] the house [are] well. |
| Obverse [9:11] o 1010– | (As to) the large bathroom |
| Reverse [0:1] r 1r 1–r 1r 1 | [which] they are claim[ing], |
| Reverse [1:5] r 22–r 55 | may the seal(ed document)s (available) on it be sent [to the] crown [pri]nce, and may he have a look at them. |
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 | [a-na DUMU—LUGAL DUMU—LUGAL EN-ia] | |
| 2 | [ARAD-ka {1}{d}EN]—BA-ša₂ | |
| 3 | [x x x x x x] {⸢d⸣}BE | |
| 4 | [x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ | |
| 5 | [a-na DUMU—LUGAL] DUMU—LUGAL] ⸢EN⸣-ia | |
| 6 | [lik-ru]-⸢bu⸣ | |
| 7 | [x x x x x]-ni | |
| 8 | [x x x ina] ŠA₃-bi-ni | |
| 9 | [x] ⸢E₂⸣ [o] DI-mu | |
| 10 | [x] E₂—ra-ma-ki E₂—ra-ma-ki ⸢KALAG⸣ | |
| r | ||
| 1 | [ša₂] ⸢i⸣-ba-qu-[ru-ni] | |
| 2 | {⸢na₄⸣}ŠU.GUR-MEŠ | |
| 3 | [ša₂ ina] UGU-hi | |
| 4 | [a-na] ⸢DUMU⸣—LUGAL ⸢DUMU⸣—LUGAL liš-pu-ru | |
| 5 | ⸢le⸣-mu-ru | |
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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