CT 53, 571 (P313983)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 571 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313983 |
| 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 [1:2] o 2'2'–o 2'2' | "his purchase [......] |
| Obverse [2:3] o 3'3'–o 3'3' | "he t[ook] one third [......] |
| Obverse [3:4] o 4'4'–o 4'4' | "the other half [......]." |
| Obverse [4:6] o 5'5'–o 6'6' | Naṣib-i[lu and NN] heard this and ca[me ...] |
| Obverse [6:7] o 7'7'–o 7'7' | from his servants [......] |
| Obverse [7:8] o 8'8'–o 8'8' | was delayed [......] |
| Obverse [8:9] o 9'9'–o 9'9' | "You [......] |
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' | [ma]-⸢a x⸣+[x x x x x x x] | |
| 2' | qi-ni-⸢su⸣ [x x x x x x] | |
| 3' | 03-su it-⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x] | |
| 4' | ma-a meš\m-lu-ma [x x x x x] | |
| 5' | an-ni-tu₂ {1}na-ṣib—⸢DINGIR⸣ [x x x x] | |
| 6' | i-sa-ʾu-šu₂ it-⸢tal⸣-[x x x x] | |
| 7' | TA@v\m ŠA₃ ARAD-MEŠ\m-šu₂ [x x x x] | |
| 8' | it-ta-mar-ku ⸢x⸣+[x x x x] | |
| 9' | ma-a at-ta an-[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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