CT 53, 734 (P314144)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 734 |
|---|---|
| ID | P314144 |
| 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/saa01 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:2] o 1'1'–o 2'2' | ......] I have s[ent ...] to [the king, my lord]. |
| Obverse [2:13] o 3'3'– | As to the [...] official of Šarru-[...] about whom the king [my lord] wrote [to me]: "Why has he not come?" I am right now sending him to the king, my lord. |
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-na⸣ [LUGAL EN-ia] | |
| 2' | u₂-⸢se⸣-[bi-la x x] | |
| 3' | ina UGU {lu₂}[x x x] | |
| 4' | ša\p {1}MAN—[x x x x] | |
| 5' | ša LUGAL [be-li₂] | |
| b.e. | ||
| 6' | iš-pur-[an-ni] | |
| r | ||
| 1 | ma-a a-[ta-a] | |
| 2 | la il-[li-ka] | |
| 3 | u₂\m-ma ⸢an⸣-[nu-rig] | |
| 4 | ina UGU LUGAL [EN-ia] | |
| 5 | u₂\m-se-⸢bi⸣-[la-šu] | |
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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