CT 53, 524 (P313937)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 524 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313937 |
| 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' | [...] desert[ed ...] |
| Obverse [1:2] o 2'2'–o 2'2' | [...] Urzuhina [...] |
| Obverse [2:3] o 3'3'–o 3'3' | [...] with the magnates to [...] |
| Obverse [3:6] o 4'4'–o 6'6' | [...] Now [he] ran away from [...], ca[me here, and as]cended [to ...], saying: "The ch[ief ...] |
| Obverse [6:8] o 7'7'–o 8'8' | [Ya]sumu the [...] |
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⸣ i-tu-⸢qu⸣-[ut] | |
| 2' | [x x] {uru}ur-zu\d-hi-na [x x] | |
| 3' | [x x] TA\m {lu₂vd}GAL-MEŠ a-⸢na⸣ [x x] | |
| 4' | [x x] u₂-ma-a TA@v\m [x x x] | |
| 5' | [ih]-ta-⸢al⸣-qa i-⸢tal⸣-[ka x x] | |
| 6' | [e]-⸢te⸣-li\dp ma-a {lu₂vd}⸢GAL⸣—[x x x] | |
| 7' | {1}ia]-su\d-mu\p {lu₂}⸢x⸣+[x x x x] | |
| 8' | [x x]+⸢x⸣ lu pi [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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