CT 53, 741 (P314151)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 741 |
|---|---|
| ID | P314151 |
| 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 [3:6] o 4'4'– | I shall not cut off my visits (lit., 'foot') [to Dur-Š]arrukin. |
| Bottom [0:1] b.e. 6'b.e. 6'–b.e. 6'b.e. 6' | [Let me] measure [...] |
| Bottom [1:3] b.e. 7'7'– | [...] his presence |
| Reverse [0:6] r 1r 1–r 66 | [... Concerning the s]heikh [about whom the king, my lord], told me: "[O]n the day [when ... go]es [to Du]r-Šarrukin |
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⸣ | |
| 2' | [x x x x x]-⸢man⸣-ni | |
| 3' | [x x x x]-⸢u⸣-ni ma-a | |
| 4' | [x x x x]+⸢x⸣-u₂ GIR₃.2-i | |
| 5' | [x {uru}BAD₃]—⸢MAN⸣—GIN la a-bat-ta-qa\d | |
| b.e. | ||
| 6' | [x x x la]-an-du-ud | |
| 7' | [x x x x] pa-ni-šu₂\d | |
| r | ||
| 1 | [x x ina UGU {lu₂v]}⸢na⸣-si-ki | |
| 2 | [ša LUGAL be-li₂] ⸢iq⸣-bu-u-ni | |
| 3 | [ma-a x x ina] ⸢ŠA₃⸣ UD-mu | |
| 4 | [ša x x ina {uru]}⸢BAD₃⸣—MAN—GIN | |
| 5 | [x x x il-la]-⸢ku⸣-ni | |
| 6 | [x x x x x x] ⸢pu⸣-ut | |
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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