CT 53, 629 (P314041)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 629 |
|---|---|
| ID | P314041 |
| 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 [1:2] o 2'2'–o 2'2' | I am sending [......]. |
| Obverse [2:3] o 3'3'–o 3'3' | [Perhaps the king], my lord, will say: |
| Obverse [3:4] o 4'4'–o 4'4' | "[Why was it not ...] until now?" |
| Obverse [4:5] o 5'5'–o 5'5' | [The blanket of snow] is very thick, |
| Obverse [5:6] o 6'6'–o 6'6' | [......] the month Adar (XII) |
| Obverse [6:7] o 7'7'–o 7'7' | [......] to me |
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' | [x x x x x x x x]-⸢ri⸣ | |
| 2' | [x x x x x] u₂-se-bi-la | |
| 3' | [i—su-ri LUGAL] be-li₂ i-qa-bi | |
| 4' | [ma-a a-ta-a a]-di\d a-kan-ni\d | |
| 5' | [la x x ku-pu-u a]—dan-niš da\t-an | |
| 6' | [x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ {iti}ŠE | |
| 7' | [x x x x x] ⸢UGU⸣-hi-⸢ia⸣ | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [x x x x x x x] ⸢x⸣+[x] | |
| 2' | [x x x x x x x]+⸢x lum⸣ | |
| 3' | [x x x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ | |
| 4' | [x x x x x {lu₂v]}⸢uk⸣-[ka-a].a | |
| 5' | [x x x x x] ⸢LUGAL⸣ u₂-⸢x⸣+[x x]-ka | |
| 6' | [x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣-u₂-ni\d | |
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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