CT 53, 559 (P313971)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 559 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313971 |
| 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/saa13 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:1] o 1'1'–o 1'1' | [...... w]ill be stor[ed]. |
| Obverse [1:2] o 2'2'–o 2'2' | [......] gold for ... [...] |
| Obverse [2:3] o 3'3'–o 3'3' | [... gol]dsmiths |
| Obverse [3:5] o 4'4'–o 5'5' | [......] crown |
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] ⸢iš-ša₂-ak-kan⸣ | |
| 2' | [x x x x x] KUG.GI a-na da-[x] | |
| 3' | [x x x {lu₂]}⸢SIMUG⸣.KUG.GI-MEŠ | |
| 4' | [x x x x x x] ⸢a⸣-gu-u | |
| 5' | [x x 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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