CT 53, 673 (P314084)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 673 |
|---|---|
| ID | P314084 |
| 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 |
|---|---|
| Obverse [1:2] o 2'2'–o 2'2' | [... t]his [...] |
| Obverse [2:3] o 3'3'–o 3'3' | [... l]et them send 40 able-bodied men [...] |
| Obverse [4:5] o 5'5'–o 5'5' | [... in] their house [...] |
| Obverse [5:6] o 6'6'–o 6'6' | [... t]o the town of the vizier [...] |
| Obverse [6:7] o 7'7'–o 7'7' | [...] this [...] und[er] |
| Obverse [7:8] o 8'8'–o 8'8' | [...] Dam[uneans] |
| Obverse [8:10] o 9'9'–o 10'10' | [......] on [...] |
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 x⸣+[x x x x x] | |
| 2' | [x x x x] ⸢an⸣-ni-ti\t ⸢x x⸣+[x x] | |
| 3' | [x x x x] 40 ERIM-MEŠ\m SIG₅-[MEŠ] | |
| 4' | [x x x x] ⸢lu⸣-še-bi-lu ina ⸢UGU⸣ [x] | |
| 5' | [x x x x] E₂-šu₂-nu-ma [x x] | |
| 6' | [x x x a]-⸢na⸣ URU—{lu₂v}SUKKAL ⸢na⸣-[x] | |
| 7' | [x x x x] ⸢an⸣-ni-ti\t ina ⸢šap⸣-[la] | |
| 8' | [x x x x x] {⸢lu₂v⸣}da\d-⸢mu⸣-[na-a.a] | |
| 9' | [x x x x x] ina UGU [x x x] | |
| 10' | [x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ {lu₂v}[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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