CT 53, 642 (P314054)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 642 |
|---|---|
| ID | P314054 |
| 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 [0:1] o 1'1'–o 1'1' | [......] befor[e ...] |
| Obverse [1:2] o 2'2'–o 2'2' | [......] no [...] |
| Obverse [2:3] o 3'3'–o 3'3' | [......] still [...] |
| Obverse [3:4] o 4'4'–o 4'4' | [......] will see, hither [...] |
| Obverse [4:12] o 5'5'– | [Has the messeng]er of the Elamite [......? Have they written] to you [about ma]king [......] Lutû [...? Have they sen]t to you any [......]? |
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]-a ina ⸢IGI⸣ [x x x x] | |
| 2' | [x x x x] a la {⸢lu₂v⸣}[x x x x] | |
| 3' | [x x x x]+⸢x⸣-ni ah—hur [x x x] | |
| 4' | [x x x x]+⸢x⸣ e-mar a-ni-ša₂ [x x x] | |
| 5' | {[lu₂v}DUMU—šip]-⸢ri⸣ {[lu₂v}DUMU—šip]-⸢ri⸣ ša\d {kur}NIM.MA{⸢ki⸣}[a.a] | |
| 6' | [a-na e]-⸢pa⸣-a-še {1}lu-tu-⸢u₂⸣ [x x x] | |
| 7' | [is-sap-ru]-nik-ka-a me-me-[ni x x] | |
| 8' | [us-se-bi]-⸢lu⸣-nik-ka-a [o] | |
| 9' | [x x x x]-⸢ur⸣-pu | |
| b.e. | ||
| 10' | [x x x x x]-MEŠ\m 01-et A.⸢ŠA₃⸣ | |
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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