CT 53, 675 (P314086)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 675 |
|---|---|
| ID | P314086 |
| 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' | [... Kal]bi-Ukû |
| Obverse [2:3] o 3'3'–o 3'3' | [...] the street |
| Obverse [3:4] o 4'4'–o 4'4' | [...] is good |
| Obverse [4:6] o 5'5'–o 6'6' | [...] we did not expand |
| Reverse [1:2] r 2'2'–r 2'2' | [... g]o |
| Reverse [3:6] r 4'4'–r 6'6' | [... the king, m]y [lord,] knows [that ...... en]ter the streets |
| Reverse [6:7] r 7'7'–r 7'7' | [...] not [...] |
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]-⸢bu⸣-u-⸢lu⸣ | |
| 2' | [x x x {1}kal]-bi—{d}u₂\m-ku-u | |
| 3' | [x x x x]-me-u su\t-qa\d-qu | |
| 4' | [x x x x] ⸢tar⸣ ṭa\d-a-ba | |
| 5' | [x x x x] ⸢la⸣ nu-ra-piš | |
| 6' | [x x x x]-⸢da⸣-pi-[x]+⸢x⸣ | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [x x x x x] ⸢ru x x⸣ | |
| 2' | [x x x x]+⸢x⸣-lak | |
| 3' | [x x x x]-ru-bi | |
| 4' | [x x LUGAL be]-⸢li₂⸣ u₂\m-da\d | |
| 5' | [ki-i x x x]+⸢x⸣ su\t-qa-qa\d-a-te | |
| 6' | [x x x x]-⸢rab⸣-u-ni | |
| 7' | [x x x x]+⸢x⸣ la ⸢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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