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CT 53, 795 (P314205)

Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE

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Designation	CT 53, 795
ID	P314205
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/saa05 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)

Line	English
Obverse [0:2] o 1'1'–o 2'2'	[...] it was raining [heavily] on [...].
Obverse [2:6] o 3'3'–o 6'6'	[... was ca]reless; the Assyria[ns ... c]ame out of the forts and infl[icted] a defe[at on th]em.
Obverse [6:7] o 7'7'–o 7'7'	[Th]ey killed [...]

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] ⸢zi-i-nu⸣ ina ⸢UGU⸣ [x x]
2'	[ma-aʾ-da] ⸢i⸣-zu-nu-⸢un⸣ [o]
3'	[x x i]-si-a-aṭ {kur}aš-⸢šur{ki⸣}[a.a]
4'	[x x x] TA@v\m ŠA₃ {uru}HAL.ṢU-MEŠ\m
5'	[i-tu]-ṣu-u-ni\d de-⸢ek⸣-[tu₂]
6'	[ina ŠA₃-bi-šu₂]-⸢nu⸣ i-du-⸢uk\dp⸣-[ku]
7'	[x x x x] ⸢i⸣-du-⸢ku⸣ [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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