CT 53, 665 (P314077)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 665 |
|---|---|
| ID | P314077 |
| 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 |
|---|---|
| Reverse [0:1] r 1'1'–r 1'1' | [...] kil[led] my [...]s |
| Reverse [1:2] r 2'2'–r 2'2' | [...] my servants [...] |
| Reverse [2:3] r 3'3'–r 3'3' | [...] I said to them: "[...] |
| Reverse [3:4] r 4'4'–r 4'4' | [... M]alakean(s) [...]" |
| Reverse [4:5] r 5'5'–r 5'5' | [They did not] agree but said: "[...]." |
| Reverse [5:7] r 6'6'–r 7'7' | [What is it th]at the king, [my lord, says]? |
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) |
|---|---|---|
| r | ||
| 1' | [x x x]-MEŠ-ia i-⸢du⸣-[x x x] | |
| 2' | [x x x] {lu₂v}ARAD-MEŠ-ia [x x x] | |
| 3' | [x x ana]-ku aq-ṭi₂-ba-aš₂-šu₂ [mu-uk] | |
| 4' | [x {uru}ma]-a-lak-ka-a.⸢a⸣ [x x] | |
| 5' | [x x la] i-ma-gur₂ ma-a [x x x] | |
| 6' | [mi-nu] ⸢ša⸣ LUGAL [be-li₂] | |
| 7' | [i-qa-bu-ni] | |
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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