CT 53, 541 (P313953)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 541 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313953 |
| 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 |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:1] o 1'1'–o 1'1' | [As to what the king, my lord], wrote to m[e]: |
| Obverse [1:2] o 2'2'–o 2'2' | [......] an auspicious day |
| Obverse [2:3] o 3'3'–o 3'3' | [......] outside |
| Obverse [3:4] o 4'4'–o 4'4' | [......] all the [s]cholars |
| Obverse [6:12] o 7'7'–o 12'12' | [......] at daybreak |
| Reverse [4:6] r 55–r 66 | [... The king], my lord, [should give o]rders [to ...]: |
| Reverse [6:8] r 77–r 88 | [After] the [...] have passed, they [should g]o [to ...] |
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' | [ša LUGAL be-li₂] iš-⸢pur-an⸣-[ni] | |
| 2' | [x x x x x x] UD-mu DUG₃.GA | |
| 3' | [x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ qa-ni | |
| 4' | [x x x x {lu₂]}⸢um\d⸣-ma-ni gab-bu\p | |
| 5' | [x x x x x]-da\d-ni | |
| 6' | [x x x x x] ga-ri-na-te | |
| 7' | [x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ i-na-mir-a-ni | |
| 8' | [x x x x x]-mu | |
| 9' | [x x x x x]-ru | |
| 10' | [x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ | |
| 11' | [x x x x x x]-ha | |
| 12' | [x x x x x x]-rab | |
| b.e. | ||
| 13' | [x x x x x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1 | [x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ | |
| 2 | [x x x x x x]-⸢ri⸣-šu₂ | |
| 3 | [x x x x x x]-e | |
| 4 | [x x x x x x]-tu₂ | |
| 5 | [x x x x LUGAL] be-li₂ | |
| 6 | [x x x x x] ⸢ṭe₃⸣-e-mu | |
| 7 | [liš-kun ki-ma x x] ⸢e⸣-ta-at-qu | |
| 8 | [x x x x lil]-⸢li⸣-ku | |
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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