CT 53, 510 (P313923)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 510 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313923 |
| 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 [3:4] o 4'4'–o 4'4' | Aššur [......] |
| Obverse [4:5] o 5'5'–o 5'5' | which [......] |
| Obverse [5:6] o 6'6'–o 6'6' | five chariots [......] |
| Obverse [6:7] o 7'7'–o 7'7' | 60 urabi (troops) [......] |
| Obverse [7:8] o 8'8'–o 8'8' | 300 Itu['aeans ......] |
| Obverse [8:18] o 9'9'– | As to the carpenters about whom [the king my lord] wrote to me: "30 [......]!" 22 carpenters ...[......]; half of them have not [yet] co[me]. Five architects of the g[overnor] of Calah have come to me [on the ...th] of [...]; none [of them] is w[orking ......]. |
| Reverse [4:5] r 55–r 55 | I [......] |
| Reverse [5:6] r 66–r 66 | I shall go [......] |
| Reverse [6:7] r 77–r 77 | in the city of [......] |
| Reverse [7:8] r 88–r 88 | the men [...... |
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] | |
| 2' | ni-⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x x x x] | |
| 3' | šu-⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x x x x] | |
| 4' | {d}aš-⸢šur⸣ [x x x x x x x] | |
| 5' | ša ⸢i⸣-[x x x x x x x x] | |
| 6' | 05 {giš}GIGIR-⸢MEŠ⸣ [x x x x x] | |
| 7' | 60 ur-a-⸢bi⸣ [x x x x x] | |
| 8' | 03 me {kur}i-tu₂-[ʾa-a.a x x] | |
| 9' | ina UGU {lu₂v}NAGAR-MEŠ\m ša [LUGAL be-li₂] | |
| b.e. | ||
| 10' | iš-pur-an-ni\d ma-a 30 [x x x] | |
| 11' | 22 {lu₂v}NAGAR-MEŠ\m pa-ni-[x x x] | |
| 12' | meš\m-lu-šu₂-nu la-a i-la-[ku-u-ni] | |
| r | ||
| 1 | 05 {lu₂v}še-lap-pa-a.a ša {⸢lu₂v⸣}[EN.NAM] | |
| 2 | ša\p {uru}kal-ha ina {itim}[x UD x-KAM] | |
| 3 | i-tal-ku-ni me-me-[ni ina ŠA₃-šu₂-nu dul-lu] | |
| 4 | la-a e-[pu-šu₂ x x x x x] | |
| 5 | a-na\t-ku [x x x x x x x] | |
| 6 | al-⸢lak⸣ [x x x x x x x x] | |
| 7 | ina {uru}⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x x x] | |
| 8 | {lu₂v}⸢ERIM-MEŠ⸣ [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
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