CT 53, 658 (P314070)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 658 |
|---|---|
| ID | P314070 |
| 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 [2:3] o 3'3'–o 3'3' | [I]n [his] letter [it was written as follows]: |
| Obverse [3:9] o 4'4'–o 9'9' | "While [I was] he[re], a messenger of [the king of ... c]ame [t]o [m]e in the city [...]; he had [no]t reached me in [...] |
| Reverse [4:6] r 5'5'–r 6'6' | thi[s lett]er [ca]me [to 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' | [x x x x x] la [x x x x] | |
| 2' | [x x x x x]+⸢x x⸣+[x x x x] | |
| 3' | [ina] ŠA₃ e-gir₂-te-[šu₂ ša₂-ṭi-ir] | |
| 4' | ma-a ki-i an-na\t-[ka a-na-ku-ni] | |
| 5' | ma-a {lu₂v}A—KIN {lu₂v}A—KIN ša\ydm {kur}[x x x x] | |
| 6' | [ina] UGU-[hi]-⸢ia⸣ a-na {uru}[x x x x] | |
| 7' | ⸢it⸣-tal-ka ma-a ina [x x x x] | |
| 8' | ⸢la⸣ ik-šu-da-ni [x x x x] | |
| 9' | [x x x]+⸢x E₂⸣ [x x x x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [x x x] e-⸢tar⸣-[x x x x x] | |
| 2' | [x x x]+⸢x⸣ e ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x] | |
| 3' | [x x]-ik-tu₂ [x x x x x] | |
| 4' | [x x]+⸢x⸣ ra\d tu₂ [x x x x x] | |
| 5' | [e-gir₂]-tu₂ an-ni-[tu₂ ina UGU-hi-ia] | |
| 6' | [it]-⸢tal⸣-ka [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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