CT 53, 557 (P313969)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 557 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313969 |
| 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 [0:4] o 1'1'–o 4'4' | [...... The Ru]'ua |
| Reverse [1:2] r 2'2'–r 2'2' | [......] took (from) him |
| Reverse [2:3] r 3'3'–r 3'3' | [...... E]lam |
| Reverse [3:4] r 4'4'–r 4'4' | [......] he does; as |
| Reverse [5:6] r 6'6'–r 6'6' | [...... c]om[e(s)] |
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 x x x x {lu₂v}ru]-ʾu-u₂\m-a | |
| 2' | [x x x x x x x x x x] | |
| 3' | [x x x x x x x x x]-⸢li⸣-ia | |
| 4' | [x x x x x x x x x x]-u | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [x x x x x x x]-ah-tu | |
| 2' | [x x x x x] ⸢it⸣-ti\t-ši-šu | |
| 3' | [x x x {kur]}⸢NIM⸣.MA{ki} | |
| 4' | [x x x x x] e-pa-aš₂ ma-a a-ki | |
| 5' | [x x x x x]+⸢x⸣-al | |
| 6' | [x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣-la-⸢ka⸣ | |
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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