CT 53, 602 (P314014)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 602 |
|---|---|
| ID | P314014 |
| 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 [6:7] o 7'7'–o 7'7' | [...] Aššur-be[lu-...] |
| Obverse [7:8] o 8'8'–o 8'8' | [... wr]it[ing-board ...] |
| Reverse [1:2] r 2'2'–r 2'2' | they (are) th[ere. The ... which] |
| Reverse [2:4] r 3'3'–r 4'4' | I had fetched [...] under the kin[g's] aegis, |
| Reverse [4:5] r 5'5'–r 5'5' | I have le[ft in] the province. |
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' | 01-⸢en⸣ [x x x x x x x] | |
| 2' | [x] ⸢x⸣ [x x x x x x x] | |
| 3' | [x] ⸢x⸣ [x x x x x x x] | |
| 4' | ⸢ša\y⸣ bi [x x x x x x x] | |
| 5' | ⸢ki⸣ ana-ku [x x x x x x] | |
| 6' | [x]-du-ru\d [x x x x x x] | |
| 7' | [x] {1}aš-šur—⸢EN⸣—[x x x x] | |
| 8' | [x x] {⸢giš}le⸣-[ʾu x x x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x x x x] | |
| 2' | šu₂-nu am-⸢x⸣-[x x x x x] | |
| 3' | ina GIŠ.MI ⸢LUGAL⸣ [x x x] | |
| 4' | aš₂-ša₂-an-ni [x x x x x] | |
| 5' | [ina] NAM\p ur-⸢ta⸣-[am-me] | |
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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