CT 53, 735 (P314145)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 735 |
|---|---|
| ID | P314145 |
| 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' | [...... out]riders |
| Obverse [2:3] o 3'3'–o 3'3' | [...... r]oads |
| Obverse [3:4] o 4'4'–o 4'4' | [......] they are silent |
| Obverse [4:7] o 5'5'–o 7'7' | [...... ] the[y] are [pr]ovoked to fight |
| Reverse [1:2] r 2'2'–r 2'2' | [......] they led them in |
| Reverse [2:5] r 3'3'–r 5'5' | [......] tureen(s) [......] |
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 {lu₂v]}⸢kal⸣-lab-MEŠ | |
| 2' | [x x x x x x x x]-u-ni | |
| 3' | [x x x x x x x] ⸢KASKAL⸣-MEŠ | |
| 4' | [x x x x x x x x] qa-a-lu [o] | |
| 5' | [x x x x x x x] ⸢ša⸣-an-hu-⸢ṣu⸣ | |
| 6' | [x x x x x x x x]-i-te [o] | |
| 7' | [x x x x x x x x x] ma [(x)] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [x x x x x] i-⸢x⸣+[x x x] | |
| 2' | [x x x x]-ša₂-ba e-tab-ku-šu₂-nu | |
| 3' | [x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ ma-zi-i | |
| 4' | [x x x x x]+⸢x⸣-da | |
| 5' | [x x x x x]+⸢x⸣-ši | |
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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