CT 53, 540 (P313952)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 540 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313952 |
| 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' | my lord to [......] |
| Obverse [1:2] o 2'2'–o 2'2' | of the Bab[ylon]ian(s) [......] |
| Obverse [2:5] o 3'3'–o 5'5' | Concerning what the king, [my] lo[rd, wrote to me: "...] six [Babylon]ians to the province [......]! |
| Obverse [5:6] o 6'6'–o 6'6' | "[Do] not [......]" |
| Obverse [6:7] o 7'7'–o 7'7' | [g]oing [......] |
| Obverse [7:8] o 8'8'–o 8'8' | [the ki]ng [......] |
| Reverse [0:1] r 1'1'–r 1'1' | bring u[s ......] |
| Reverse [1:2] r 2'2'–r 2'2' | power [......] |
| Reverse [2:3] r 3'3'–r 3'3' | work as[signment ......] |
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' | be-li₂ a-⸢na⸣ [x x x x x] | |
| 2' | ša\yd DUMU—KA₂.[DINGIR DUMU—KA₂.[DINGIR x x x x] | |
| 3' | ša\ydm LUGAL\d be-[li₂ iš-pur-an-ni] | |
| 4' | ma-a 06 DUMU—[KA₂.DINGIR{ki}MEŠ] DUMU—[KA₂.DINGIR{ki}MEŠ] | |
| 5' | ina na-ge-⸢e⸣ [x x x x x] | |
| 6' | ⸢ma⸣-a la ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x] | |
| 7' | [a]-la-ak [x x x x x] | |
| 8' | ⸢LUGAL⸣ [x x x x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | bi-la-⸢na⸣-[ši x x x x] | |
| 2' | e-mu-qa\d-[x x x x x] | |
| 3' | pi-⸢il⸣-[ku 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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