CT 53, 693 (P314104)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 693 |
|---|---|
| ID | P314104 |
| 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/saa16 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:1] o 1'1'–o 1'1' | I wro[te ......] |
| Obverse [1:2] o 2'2'–o 2'2' | until n[ow ...] |
| Obverse [2:6] o 3'3'– | When the seal[ed order came to me], I personally sent [......] |
| Bottom [0:1] b.e. 6'b.e. 6'–b.e. 6'b.e. 6' | without [ ......] |
| Bottom [1:3] b.e. 7'7'– | you [......] |
| Reverse [0:1] r 1r 1–r 1r 1 | who is in the presence [......] |
| Reverse [1:3] r 22–r 33 | no [......] |
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' | a-sap-[x x x x x x] | |
| 2' | a-du-na-⸢ka⸣-[ni x x x] | |
| 3' | ki-i un-⸢qu⸣ [tal-lik-a-ni] | |
| 4' | qar-ba-ti-ia [x x x] | |
| 5' | a-sap-ra [x x x x] | |
| b.e. | ||
| 6' | ba-la-at ⸢x⸣+[x x x x] | |
| 7' | ta-⸢x⸣+[x x x x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1 | ša IGI ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x] | |
| 2 | la du-[x x x x x x] | |
| 3 | qa-[x x 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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