CT 53, 577 (P313989)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 577 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313989 |
| 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' | [The king, my lord, can be] glad. |
| Obverse [1:3] o 2'2'–o 3'3' | [Concerning N]N [about whom the king], my [lord, wrote to me], |
| Obverse [4:6] o 5'5'–o 6'6' | [......] the re[st] |
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] DUG₃.⸢GA⸣ | |
| 2' | [ina UGU {1}x-x]-pi-il-⸢x⸣+[x] | |
| 3' | [ša LUGAL be]-⸢li₂ iš\d⸣-[pur-an-ni] | |
| 4' | [x x x x x]-ku ar-[x x] | |
| 5' | [x x x x x]-ṭu re-⸢eh⸣-[ti] | |
| 6' | [x x x x x x] ⸢te⸣ [x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [x x x x x] ⸢a⸣ dir\m ra ⸢a⸣ | |
| 2' | [x x x x x]-u-a [x] | |
| 3' | [x x x x x] ⸢URU⸣-[x x] | |
| 4' | [x x x x] bu ⸢x⸣+[x x] | |
| 5' | [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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