CT 53, 593 (P314005)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 593 |
|---|---|
| ID | P314005 |
| 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/saa10 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:5] o 1o 1–o 55 | [To] my [lord]: [your servant Issar-šumu-e]reš. [Good health to] my lord! [May Nabû and] Marduk bless [my lord]! |
| Obverse [5:9] o 66–o 99 | [As to what my lord wr]ote to me: "[Let him hear the signs] in front of the [Šam]aš!" — I waited for [...] |
| Obverse [9:11] o 1010–o 1111 | I saw [...], he saw [...]. |
| Obverse [11:13] o 1212–o 1313 | [Wh]atever I did not see [but] is known to my lord |
| Obverse [13:14] o 1414–o 1414 | [...] himself |
| Obverse [14:15] o 1515–o 1515 | [...] revealed |
| Obverse [15:16] o 1616–o 1616 | [... a]s follows |
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 EN]-ia | |
| 2 | [ARAD-ka {1}15—MU]—⸢KAM⸣-eš | |
| 3 | [lu šul-mu a-na] EN-ia | |
| 4 | {[d}AG u {d]}AMAR.UTU | |
| 5 | [a-na EN-ia lik]-ru-bu | |
| 6 | [ša be-li₂ iš]-⸢pur⸣-an-ni | |
| 7 | [ma-a GISKIM-MEŠ] ina IGI {d}[UTU] | |
| 8 | [ša₂-aš₂-me]-a-⸢šu₂⸣ | |
| 9 | [x x x x x]+⸢x⸣-ba a-⸢da-gal⸣ | |
| 10 | [x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ a-ta-⸢mar⸣ | |
| 11 | [x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ e-ta-mar | |
| 12 | [x x x x mi]-i-nu la a-⸢mur-u₂-ni⸣ | |
| 13 | [x x x a]-na EN-ia₂ u₂-du-⸢ni⸣ | |
| 14 | [x x x x] ra-man-šu₂ | |
| 15 | [x x x x] uk-ta-lim | |
| 16 | [x x x x ki]-⸢i an-ni-i⸣ | |
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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