CT 53, 631 (P314043)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 631 |
|---|---|
| ID | P314043 |
| 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' | [......] they appoint |
| Obverse [2:3] o 3'3'–o 3'3' | [... they have retu]rned [...] the wo[rk] |
| Obverse [3:4] o 4'4'–o 4'4' | [......] of ... |
| Obverse [4:5] o 5'5'–o 5'5' | [... spoke] as follows: |
| Obverse [5:6] o 6'6'–o 6'6' | ["W]e are his messengers |
| Obverse [6:7] o 7'7'–o 7'7' | [......] after you [...] |
| Obverse [7:8] o 8'8'–o 8'8' | [......] in my presence [...] |
| Reverse [0:1] r 1'1'–r 1'1' | [...... o]f the logs |
| Reverse [1:2] r 2'2'–r 2'2' | [......] we sto[od] |
| Reverse [2:3] r 3'3'–r 3'3' | [......] will hau[l] the logs |
| Reverse [3:4] r 4'4'–r 4'4' | [...... f]or the watch [...] |
| Reverse [4:6] r 5'5'–r 6'6' | [...... se]ttled |
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] a li\d [x x] | |
| 2' | [x x x x x] ⸢i⸣-pa-qi₂-⸢du⸣ | |
| 3' | [x x x x u₂]-⸢sa⸣-hi-ru dul₆-[lu] | |
| 4' | [x x x x x] ⸢ša x x x⸣ [x] | |
| 5' | [x x x x x]-⸢i⸣ ki an-ni-[e] | |
| 6' | [x x ma-a {lu₂v]}⸢A⸣—KIN\t-šu₂ {lu₂v]}⸢A⸣—KIN\t-šu₂ a-ni-[ni] | |
| 7' | [x x x x i]—da\d-tuk-ka i]—da\d-tuk-ka [x] | |
| 8' | [x x x x x] ina IGI-ia [x x] | |
| 9' | [x x x x x x] ⸢sa⸣ hi\p ⸢x⸣+[x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [x x x x] ⸢ša⸣ {giš}UR₃\dm-⸢MEŠ⸣ | |
| 2' | [x x x x x] ni-it\p-te-et-[zi] | |
| 3' | [x x x x {giš]}UR₃\dm-MEŠ\m i-ša₂-du-[du] | |
| 4' | [x x x x a]-⸢na⸣ EN.NUN\m [x] | |
| 5' | [x x x x u₂-še]-šib-u₂-⸢ni\d⸣ | |
| 6' | [x x x x x] ⸢u₂\p⸣ [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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