CT 53, 625 (P314037)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 625 |
|---|---|
| ID | P314037 |
| 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 Nashir-Bel]. Go[od health to the king, my lord]! |
| Reverse [3:6] r 4'4'–r 6'6' | "We [shall be] in the city [... by the ...th of ...]; |
| Reverse [6:11] r 7'7'– | They left on the f[irst], saying: "[......] for 5 days in the city [...] before us." |
| Edge [0:1] e. 1e. 1–e. 1e. 1 | [I said]: "Find out [what]ever it is [and report it to me]." |
| Edge [1:2] e. 22–e. 22 | I am [now] waiting [for th]em, and sh[all] write [to the king, m]y [lord, as soon as they have returned]. |
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\t [LUGAL EN-ia₂] | |
| 2 | ARAD-[ka {1}NIGIN—EN] | |
| 3 | ⸢lu⸣ [DI-mu a-na LUGAL EN-ia₂] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [x x x x x] ⸢x⸣ [x x x] | |
| 2' | [x x x x x] KASKAL [x x x] | |
| 3' | [x x x x] ib ⸢x⸣+[x x x] | |
| 4' | [x x x x] ma-a [x x x] | |
| 5' | [x x x] ina {uru}⸢x⸣+[x x x] | |
| 6' | [ma-a a]-ni-nu ina ⸢x⸣+[x x] | |
| 7' | šu-nu it-ta-tak-⸢ku⸣ | |
| r.e. | ||
| 8 | ma-a 05 UD-MEŠ\t ina {uru}[x x] | |
| 9 | ina pa-ni-ni rak-[x] | |
| e. | ||
| 1 | [x x x x x x x nu-uk mi-nu] ⸢ša⸣ ši-ti\t-ni am-ra | |
| 2 | [qi-bi-a an-nu-rig ina pa-ni-šu₂]-nu a-da\t-gal | |
| 3 | [ki-ma is-suh-ru-ni a-na LUGAL EN]-⸢ia⸣ a-⸢šap⸣-pa-ra | |
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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