CT 53, 573 (P313985)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 573 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313985 |
| 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/saa05 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:3] o 1o 1–o 33 | [To the king, my lord]: your [se]rvant Aššur-[patinu. Go]od health t[o the king, my lord]! |
| Obverse [3:5] o 44–o 55 | A letter from [NN, a servant o]f the king, my lord, [has come to me]. |
| Obverse [5:6] o 66–o 66 | [The serv]ants of [......] |
| Obverse [6:9] o 77–o 99 | have made [them] stand on the feet [......] |
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 | [a-na LUGAL EN-ia] | |
| 2 | ⸢ARAD⸣-ka {1}aš-šur—[pa-ti-nu] | |
| 3 | ⸢lu⸣ šul-mu a-⸢na⸣ [LUGAL EN-ia] | |
| 4 | ⸢e⸣-gir₂-tu₂ ša\t [x x x x] | |
| 5 | ⸢ša⸣ LUGAL EN-ia [x x x x] | |
| 6 | ⸢ARAD⸣-MEŠ-ni\d ša\y [x x x x x] | |
| 7 | [ina] UGU GIR₃.2 [x x x x x] | |
| 8 | ⸢u₂⸣-sa-zi-[zu x x x x x] | |
| 9 | [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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