CT 53, 580 (P313992)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 580 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313992 |
| 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' | [......] you |
| Obverse [1:5] o 2'2'–o 5'5' | [......] they |
| Reverse [0:1] r 1'1'–r 1'1' | [......] fiel[d] |
| Reverse [1:2] r 2'2'–r 2'2' | [...] their [...]s |
| Reverse [2:3] r 3'3'–r 3'3' | [... they de]ported |
| Reverse [4:5] r 5'5'–r 5'5' | [......] I wrote |
| Reverse [5:6] r 6'6'–r 6'6' | [......] the work |
| Reverse [6:7] r 7'7'–r 7'7' | [...... k]ean(s) |
| Reverse [7:8] r 8'8'–r 8'8' | [... The day] I see |
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 x x]+⸢x⸣-nik-nu | |
| 2' | [x x x x x x] šu-nu | |
| 3' | [x x x x x]-⸢lu⸣-u-ni | |
| 4' | [x x x x x x x x]-ni | |
| 5' | [x x x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [x x x x x x x] ⸢A.ŠA₃.GA⸣ | |
| 2' | [x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣-MEŠ\m-šu₂-nu | |
| 3' | [x x x x u₂]-⸢sa⸣-ga-li\y-u | |
| 4' | [x x x x {1}x]-di\d-i | |
| 5' | [x x x x x] ⸢as\d⸣-sap-ra | |
| 6' | [x x x x x x] du-ul-lu-u-ni | |
| 7' | [x x x x x x]-⸢ka⸣-a.a | |
| 8' | [x x x x x x] ⸢am-mar⸣-u-ni | |
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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