CT 53, 689 (P314100)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 689 |
|---|---|
| ID | P314100 |
| 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' | [...] his ears [......] |
| Obverse [2:3] o 3'3'–o 3'3' | [... A]gain, what I |
| Obverse [3:4] o 4'4'–o 4'4' | [...] spe[ak] with him |
| Obverse [4:5] o 5'5'–o 5'5' | [what the king], my lord, does [...] |
| Obverse [5:7] o 6'6'– | [...] me, saying: "[...] with [...] |
| Bottom [0:4] b.e. 7'b.e. 7'– | [...] assign [...] |
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⸣ [x x x x x] | |
| 2' | [x x x] PI.2-MEŠ\m-šu₂ ⸢x⸣+[x x x x] | |
| 3' | [x x] ⸢tu\m⸣-u-ra ša\ydm a-[na-ku] | |
| 4' | [x x x] i-si-šu₂ a-da\d-⸢bu⸣-[bu-u-ni] | |
| 5' | [(x) LUGAL] EN e-pa-šu₂-u-ni [x x x] | |
| 6' | [x x x]-ni ma-a TA@v\m {⸢lu₂vy⸣}[x x] | |
| b.e. | ||
| 7' | [x x x] u₂\m-si-⸢ki⸣ me [x x x] | |
| 8' | [x x]+⸢x⸣-šu₂-u-ni [x x] ni [x x] | |
| 9' | [x x]+⸢x i⸣ na [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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