CT 53, 761 (P314171)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 761 |
|---|---|
| ID | P314171 |
| 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 [0:1] o 1'1'–o 1'1' | [...] which I [......] |
| Obverse [1:2] o 2'2'–o 2'2' | [...] the chief merchant ... |
| Obverse [2:3] o 3'3'–o 3'3' | [...] who incites his equal |
| Obverse [3:4] o 4'4'–o 4'4' | [...] you [...] this matter |
| Obverse [4:7] o 5'5'–o 7'7' | [...] is not [...] for me and my Palace |
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] ša ⸢a⸣-[x x x x x x x] | |
| 2' | [x x x]+⸢x⸣ {lu₂v}GAL—DAM.QAR-MEŠ\m {lu₂v}GAL—DAM.QAR-MEŠ\m ⸢x tu⸣ gu ⸢lu⸣ [x] | |
| 3' | [x x x]+⸢x⸣ ša\d mi-hir-šu₂ u₂-šad-ba-bu-[u-ni] | |
| 4' | [x x x]-u-ni\d a-bu-tu₂ an-ni\d-tu₂ ta-šap-[x (x)] | |
| 5' | [x x x] ⸢a⸣.a-ši a-na E₂.GAL-ia la ⸢šar⸣-[x] | |
| 6' | [x x x x]+⸢x⸣-la-a-ni\d {1}li-ša\yd-⸢x⸣+[x x x x] | |
| 7' | [x x x x x] a [x] 30 [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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