CT 53, 586 (P313998)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 586 |
|---|---|
| ID | P313998 |
| 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 servant NN. Good health to the king], my [lo]rd! |
| Obverse [3:5] o 44–o 55 | [As to the news of] the [Ur]arṭian [about which the king, my lord, wr]ote me, |
| Obverse [5:8] o 66–o 88 | [NN], the e[un]uch [whom] I sent [to ......] |
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}x x x x] | |
| 3 | [lu DI-mu a-na LUGAL] ⸢EN⸣-ia | |
| 4 | [ina UGU ṭe₃-me ša] {⸢kur}URI\d⸣-a.a | |
| 5 | [ša LUGAL be-li₂ iš]-pur-an-ni | |
| 6 | [x x x x x] {⸢lu₂v}SAG⸣ | |
| 7 | [x x x x x] aš₂-pur\p-an-ni | |
| 8 | [x x x x x]-bi | |
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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