CT 53, 513 + 560 (P313926)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 513 + 560 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313926 |
| 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/saa05 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:3] o 1o 1–o 33 | [To] the king, my lord: your [servant] Nanû. [Good] health to the king, my lord! |
| Obverse [3:7] o 44–o 77 | [As t]o Meṣate-[i]bni and [...]nâ about whom the king, my lord, [wrote] me, in accordance with the king's sealed order [......] |
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⸣ LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 2 | [ARAD]-ka {1}na-nu-u | |
| 3 | [lu] ⸢DI⸣-mu a-na LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 4 | [ina] ⸢UGU⸣ {1}me-ṣa-te—⸢ib⸣-ni | |
| 5 | {1}x-x]+⸢x⸣-na-a ša\y LUGAL be-li₂ | |
| 6 | [iš-pur]-⸢an⸣-ni pi-ti un-qi LUGAL | |
| 7 | [x x x] ⸢x x⸣ [x x] ⸢ka⸣ | |
Sources & licences
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- 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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