CT 53, 627 (P314039)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 627 |
|---|---|
| ID | P314039 |
| 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 |
|---|---|
| Reverse [0:1] r 1'1'–r 1'1' | [...] La[...] |
| Reverse [1:2] r 2'2'–r 2'2' | [has s]eized [......] |
| Reverse [2:3] r 3'3'–r 3'3' | [......] his face [...] Eṭiru |
| Reverse [3:4] r 4'4'–r 4'4' | saying, "Why does Bel-iddina stand [...]?" |
| Reverse [4:8] r 5'5'–r 8'8' | Now t[hen I am] no[t giving] the prebend to anybody until the king, my lord, comes to [...] and settles the matter between [us]. |
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) |
|---|---|---|
| r | ||
| 1' | [x x x]-⸢nu {1}la-x⸣+[x x x x] | |
| 2' | [x x x] ⸢iṣ⸣-ṣa-bat e-[x x x x] | |
| 3' | {1}⸢e⸣-ṭe₃\p-ri pa-ni-šu₂ [x x x x] | |
| 4' | ⸢ma⸣-a a-ta-a {1}EN—AŠ-ma [x x x] | |
| 5' | iz-za-az\td u₂-ma-a ⸢an⸣-[nu-rig] | |
| 6' | {giš}ŠUB\d.BA a-na me-me-ni ⸢la⸣ [x x x] | |
| 7' | a-du be₂-et LUGAL\t EN ina ⸢x⸣+[x x x] | |
| 8' | il-la-kan-ni ina bir-tu-[un-ni] | |
| 9' | u₂-kan-nu-u-ni | |
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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