CT 53, 584 (P313996)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 584 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313996 |
| 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 [0:4] o 1o 1–o 44 | [To the king, my lord: your servant Ašipâ]. The bes[t of health t]o the king, [my lord]! |
| Obverse [4:6] o 55–o 66 | [The f]orts [and the land of] the king, my lord, [are well]. |
| Obverse [6:7] o 77–o 77 | [As to the news] of the Urarṭians, |
| Obverse [7:9] o 88–o 99 | [......] opposite [me] |
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}a-ši-pa-a] | |
| 3 | [lu DI-mu a]-⸢na LUGAL⸣ | |
| 4 | [EN-ia] ⸢a⸣—dan-niš | |
| 5 | [DI-mu a-na] {⸢uru⸣}bi-rat | |
| 6 | [a-na KUR ša] LUGAL EN-ia₂ | |
| 7 | [ina UGU ṭe₃-me] ša\m {kur}URI\dd-a.[a] | |
| 8 | [x x x x x]+⸢x ša\m⸣ pu\p-tu₂-u-[a] | |
| 9 | [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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