CT 53, 566 (P313978)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 566 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313978 |
| 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' | Man[nu-ki-...] |
| Obverse [1:2] o 2'2'–o 2'2' | the bod[yguard ...] |
| Obverse [2:3] o 3'3'–o 3'3' | Hagal[......] |
| Obverse [3:5] o 4'4'–o 5'5' | Now the[n I am sending them] to the king, [my lord ......] |
| Obverse [5:12] o 6'6'– | the bod[yguard ...] |
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' | {1}man-[nu—ki-i—x x x x] | |
| 2' | {lu₂vy}qur-[bu-ti x x x x] | |
| 3' | {1}ha-gal\p-[x x x x x x] | |
| 4' | an-nu-⸢rig⸣ [x x x x x x] | |
| 5' | a-na LUGAL [x x x x x] | |
| 6' | {lu₂v}⸢qur⸣-[bu-ti x x x x] | |
| b.e. | ||
| 7' | ⸢i-x⸣+[x x x x x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1 | ⸢ib⸣-[x x x x x x x] | |
| 2 | ⸢iš⸣-[x x x x x x x] | |
| 3 | ina [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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