CT 53, 639 (P314051)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 639 |
|---|---|
| ID | P314051 |
| 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/saa01 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [2:3] o 3'3'–o 3'3' | in the middle of the city [......] |
| Obverse [3:5] o 4'4'– | now ...[.....] |
| Bottom [0:1] b.e. 5'b.e. 5'–b.e. 5'b.e. 5' | alongs[ide ......] |
| Bottom [1:3] b.e. 6'6'– | the house which [......] |
| Reverse [0:3] r 1r 1–r 33 | Did I not [....] to the king, [my lord]? As to the boats [on which] I wr[ote to the king], my lord [...... |
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] | |
| 2' | qa\d-an-šu₂ te-⸢te⸣-[x x x x] | |
| 3' | ina qa\d-ab-si ⸢URU⸣ [x x x] | |
| 4' | u₂\m-ma-a hi-⸢ṭa⸣-[x x x x] | |
| b.e. | ||
| 5' | ina šid-di-⸢im⸣-[ma x x x] | |
| 6' | E₂ ša a-na\t ⸢x⸣+[x x x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1 | la-a a-na\t LUGAL [x x x x] | |
| 2 | ina UGU {giš}MA₂-MEŠ [ša a-na LUGAL] | |
| 3 | EN-ia ⸢aš₂⸣-[pur-an-ni 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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