CT 53, 618 (P314030)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 618 |
|---|---|
| ID | P314030 |
| 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/saa01 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Bottom [0:3] b.e. 1'b.e. 1'– | the king [......] |
| Reverse [1:5] r 22–r 55 | As to what the ki[ng, my lord, wrote to me]: "Šimanni- Aššur [......] horse[s ......] guard [......]" |
| Reverse [6:9] r 77–r 99 | The Ruqa[hu tribe ......] guard [......] in the presence [...... |
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) |
|---|---|---|
| b.e. | ||
| 1' | LUGAL [x x x x x x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1 | ša ⸢LUGAL⸣ [x x x x x x] | |
| 2 | ma-a {1}HAL-⸢ni—aš-šur⸣ [x x x x] | |
| 3 | ma-a {anše}KUR.⸢RA⸣-[MEŠ x x x x] | |
| 4 | EN.NUN\m iṣ-[x x x x x] | |
| 5 | ma-a i-[x x x x x x] | |
| 6 | i-la\p-[x x x x x x x] | |
| 7 | {kur}ru-qa-[ha-a.a x x x x] | |
| 8 | EN.NUN\m [x x x x x x x] | |
| 9 | ina pa-⸢an⸣ [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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