CT 53, 508 (P313921)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 508 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313921 |
| 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/saa10 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:1] o 1'1'–o 1'1' | [......] said to me |
| Obverse [1:2] o 2'2'–o 2'2' | [......] Issar-šumu-ereš |
| Obverse [2:3] o 3'3'–o 3'3' | [...... Nabû]-naṣir |
| Obverse [3:4] o 4'4'–o 4'4' | [......] Issar-šumu-ereš |
| Obverse [5:6] o 6'6'–o 6'6' | [......] good |
| Obverse [6:8] o 7'7'–o 8'8' | [......] I asked |
| Obverse [8:11] o 9'9'–o 11'11' | (9') (Break) |
| Obverse [11:15] o 12'12'– | [I] shall pay [attention to it]; I rely [mu]ch upon it. |
| Bottom [2:6] b.e. 15'15'– | Even the commander-in-chief [...] |
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] ⸢iq-ban-ni⸣ | |
| 2' | [x x x x x] {1}{d}15—MU—[KAM-eš] | |
| 3' | [x x x {1}{d}PA]—PAB-ir | |
| 4' | [x x x x x {1}{d}15—MU—KAM-eš | |
| 5' | [x x x x x x]-i | |
| 6' | [x x x x x x] ṭa-ba | |
| 7' | [x x x x x x] ⸢a⸣-sa-al | |
| 8' | [x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ | |
| 9' | [x x x x x i]-⸢ba⸣-aš₂-ši | |
| 10' | [x x x x x x x] | |
| 11' | [x x x x x x x] | |
| 12' | [x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣-na | |
| b.e. | ||
| 13' | [uz-nu a]-⸢ša₂⸣-ka-na | |
| 14' | [ma-ʾa]-⸢ad⸣ ra-ah-ṣa-ak | |
| 15' | [ina] ⸢UGU⸣-hi u₃ {lu₂v}tur-⸢ta⸣-nu | |
| r | ||
| 1 | [x x x x x x x]-nu | |
| 2 | [x x x 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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