CT 53, 637 (P314049)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 637 |
|---|---|
| ID | P314049 |
| 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 [0:3] o 1o 1–o 33 | [To the king, my lord: your servant Ata]nha-[Šamaš. Good health t]o the king, [my] lord! |
| Obverse [3:7] o 44–o 77 | [As to the ...]naean(s) [about whom they wrote] me [from the Palace]: "In Arbela [...] the palace |
| Obverse [7:8] o 88–o 88 | [... the cou]rtyard of the palace |
| Obverse [8:11] o 99–o 1111 | [...] seized 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 | [a-na LUGAL EN-ia] | |
| 2 | [ARAD-ka {1}a]-⸢tan⸣-ha—{d}[UTU] | |
| 3 | [lu šul-mu a]-⸢na⸣ LUGAL EN-[ia] | |
| 4 | [ina UGU x x x]+⸢x⸣-na-a.⸢a⸣ | |
| 5 | [ša TA E₂.GAL ina] UGU-hi-ia | |
| 6 | [iš-pur-u-ni-ni] ma-a ina {uru}arba-il₃ | |
| 7 | [x x x x] ⸢E₂⸣.GAL | |
| 8 | [x x x x] ⸢TUR₃⸣ E₂.GAL | |
| 9 | [x x x x x] i-ṣab-ta-ni | |
| 10 | [x x x x x x] šap ku-⸢ṣi⸣ | |
| 11 | [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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