CT 53, 760 (P314170)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 760 |
|---|---|
| ID | P314170 |
| 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/saa10 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:1] o 1'1'–o 1'1' | [... who] has eaten |
| Obverse [1:2] o 2'2'–o 2'2' | [... has] lines in his chest |
| Obverse [2:3] o 3'3'–o 3'3' | [......] owing to a fault |
| Obverse [3:4] o 4'4'–o 4'4' | they recite to him [......] |
| Obverse [4:7] o 5'5'– | [......] how |
| Reverse [0:6] r 1r 1–r 66 | [Concerning... about whom the king, m]y [lord], spoke, [I swear that] we stay awake [with him] and [do our wo]rk! May the gods [...] not hold us responsible [......] |
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-me-ni-šu₂ i-ku-lu-u-ni⸣ | |
| 2' | [x x x x] pi-ir-ki ina GABA-šu₂ | |
| 3' | [x x x x]-a ina hi-iṭ-ṭi | |
| 4' | [x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ i-ma-nu-šu₂ | |
| 5' | [x x x x x]-nu a-ke-e | |
| b.e. | ||
| 6' | [x x x x x x] ša₂ EN [x] | |
| r | ||
| 1 | [ša LUGAL be]-⸢li₂⸣ iq-bu-u-ni | |
| 2 | [x x x] la-a ni-da-li-pu-u-ni | |
| 3 | [la ne₂-pa]-aš₂-u-ni DINGIR-MEŠ-ni | |
| 4 | [x x x] ina qa-ti-ni la u₂-ba-u | |
| 5 | [x x x x x x]-⸢a⸣-ti | |
| 6 | [x x x x x x] ⸢bu-ub⸣ | |
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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