CT 53, 511 (P313924)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 511 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313924 |
| 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 [0:1] o 1'1'–o 1'1' | [Now th]en [...] |
| Obverse [2:4] o 3'3'–o 4'4' | [about which] the king, my lord, w[rote to me]: "Execu[te] the work nic[ely]; |
| Obverse [4:5] o 5'5'–o 5'5' | "a work that [...] |
| Obverse [5:7] o 6'6'– | running [...] |
| Reverse [0:1] r 1r 1–r 1r 1 | [...] of the royal road [...] |
| Reverse [1:2] r 22–r 22 | [...] Babylon [...] |
| Reverse [2:3] r 33–r 33 | [...] silver [...] |
| Reverse [3:6] r 44–r 66 | [...] bricks [...] |
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' | [an-nu]-⸢rig\t⸣ [x x x] | |
| 2' | [x x]+⸢x⸣ kur a-[x x x] | |
| 3' | [ša] LUGAL EN ⸢iš\d⸣-[pur-an-ni] | |
| 4' | [ma]-a dul-lu dam-[mi₃-iq] | |
| 5' | ma-a dul\m-lu ša\yd [x x x] | |
| 6' | lu-su\t-mu-ti\t [x x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1 | [x x]+⸢x⸣ ša\d ⸢KASKAL⸣.2—LUGAL ⸢KASKAL⸣.2—LUGAL ⸢x⸣+[x x x] | |
| 2 | [x x] ⸢KA₂.DINGIR{ki⸣} qa\d [x x] | |
| 3 | [x x] me KUG.UD-MEŠ\m [x x] | |
| 4 | [x x x] ⸢SIG₄\p⸣-MEŠ\m ša₂ [x x] | |
| 5 | [x x x] ⸢u₂ sar⸣ [x x x] | |
| 6 | [x 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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