CT 53, 539 (P313951)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 539 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313951 |
| 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/saa16 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Reverse [0:1] r 1r 1–r 1r 1 | [...] I [...] |
| Reverse [1:5] r 22–r 55 | [...] the king, [my] lo[rd], broug[ht] (me) my [..., saying: "Let yo]ur [...] with you!" |
| Reverse [5:6] r 66–r 66 | [The king], my [lor]d pla[c]ed |
| Reverse [6:7] r 77–r 77 | [...] of ... |
| Reverse [7:8] r 88–r 88 | [... which I] saw |
| Reverse [8:11] r 99–r 1111 | [... The king], my [lor]d, should [know it]. |
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) |
|---|---|---|
| r | ||
| 1 | [x x a]-na-ku am-[x x] | |
| 2 | [x x x x] LUGAL be-[li₂] | |
| 3 | [x x x]-⸢ia⸣ it-tu-⸢bil⸣ | |
| 4 | [ma-a x x]-⸢ka⸣ is-si-⸢ka⸣ | |
| 5 | [x x x]-it li-te-[x] | |
| 6 | [x x x x]-li is-sa-⸢kan⸣ | |
| 7 | [x x x] ša šu-⸢un⸣-[x] | |
| 8 | [x x x x x] e-mur-u-[ni] | |
| 9 | [x x x LUGAL be]-⸢li₂⸣ lu [u₂-di] | |
| 10 | [x x x x x]-⸢li-ku⸣ [o] | |
| 11 | [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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