CT 53, 661 (P314073)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 661 |
|---|---|
| ID | P314073 |
| 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/saa15 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Bottom [0:1] b.e. 1'b.e. 1'–b.e. 1'b.e. 1' | [...] the king [...] |
| Bottom [1:3] b.e. 2'2'– | [...] other [...] |
| Reverse [0:1] r 1r 1–r 1r 1 | [... h]orses [...] |
| Reverse [1:3] r 22–r 33 | [... amon]g them hors[es ...] |
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) |
|---|---|---|
| b.e. | ||
| 1' | [x x]+⸢x LUGAL⸣ [x x x] | |
| 2' | [x x]+⸢x⸣ ša₂-ni-e ⸢x⸣+[x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1 | [x x] {⸢anše⸣}KUR.RA-MEŠ [x x] | |
| 2 | [x x x]-⸢bi⸣-šu₂-nu {anše}KUR.[RA-MEŠ] | |
| 3 | [x x x x] ⸢u₂ i⸣ [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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