CT 53, 635 (P314047)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 635 |
|---|---|
| ID | P314047 |
| 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/saa13 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [2:3] o 3'3'–o 3'3' | [...] greatly [bless the king], my [l]ord. |
| Obverse [3:7] o 4'4'–o 7'7' | The [...]ians have ta[ken] the [suppor]ts for the pedestals, [the ...], and the wooden water ornaments [for the table of Za]rpanitu. |
| Obverse [7:10] o 8'8'–o 10'10' | [...] Nabû-ahhe-bulliṭ, [NN, and N]abû-ašared [......]. |
| Reverse [2:3] r 3'3'–r 3'3' | [...] gold [co]ntainers |
| Reverse [3:4] r 4'4'–r 4'4' | [...] abundant lapis lazuli |
| Reverse [4:5] r 5'5'–r 5'5' | [...] goes there. |
| Reverse [5:6] r 6'6'–r 6'6' | [the ...] is much |
| Reverse [6:7] r 7'7'–r 7'7' | [which ...] will come |
| Reverse [7:8] r 8'8'–r 8'8' | [......] ... gold |
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 x x] ⸢x x⸣ | |
| 2' | [x x x x x x]-li-ia x | |
| 3' | [x x x x LUGAL] ⸢be⸣-li₂-ia a—dan-niš | |
| 4' | [lik-ru-bu giš-tal]-⸢lu⸣ ša {giš}šu-ba-a-te | |
| 5' | [x x x x x]-te u₃ {giš}me-e | |
| 6' | [ša₂ {giš}BANŠUR ša₂ {d]}⸢zar⸣-pa-ni-tum | |
| 7' | [x x x x x]-a-a ina ŠU.2-šu₂-nu | |
| 8' | [iṣ-ṣa-ab-tu {1}{⸢d⸣}PA-ŠEŠ-MEŠ-bul-liṭ | |
| 9' | [x x x x x {1}{d]}⸢PA⸣-a-ša₂-rid | |
| 10' | [x x x x x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [x x x x x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ | |
| 2' | [x x x x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣-ma | |
| 3' | [x x x x] ⸢ŠAB⸣-MEŠ KUG.GI | |
| 4' | [x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ {na₄}ZA.⸢GIN₃⸣ LUM | |
| 5' | [x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ ina ŠA₃-bi il-lak | |
| 6' | [x x x x] ma-aʾ-du šu-u₂ | |
| 7' | [x x x x] ⸢il⸣-lak-u-ni | |
| 8' | [x x x x x]+⸢x⸣-bu KUG.GI | |
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
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