CT 53, 630 (P314042)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 630 |
|---|---|
| ID | P314042 |
| 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 [1:11] o 2'2'– | They have bound [the ...] of the men [who] defected to me, and they ref[use] to eat bread in my presence, saying: "Why [... NN and ...]-palu'a-ikšud [...]? |
| Edge [0:1] e. 1e. 1–e. 1e. 1 | "What [......] |
| Edge [1:2] e. 22–e. 22 | to [......] |
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] ⸢i⸣ [x x x x] | |
| 2' | ša\yd {lu₂vy}ERIM-MEŠ\m [ša] | |
| 3' | in\p-qa\d-tu-ni\d-⸢ni⸣ | |
| 4' | ir-tak-su la i-⸢ma⸣-[gur] | |
| 5' | NINDA-MEŠ\m ina pa-ne₂\d-e-a | |
| b.e. | ||
| 6' | a-na\t a-ka-li\d | |
| r | ||
| 1 | ma-a a-⸢ta⸣-a | |
| 2 | {1}⸢a⸣-[x x x {1}x-x]—pa-lu-u-a—KUR | |
| 3 | [x x x x x x] e ⸢x⸣+[x] | |
| e. | ||
| 1 | ma-a ša\yd [x x x x x x x x x x] | |
| 2 | a-na ⸢x⸣+[x x x 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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