CT 53, 803 (P314212)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 803 |
|---|---|
| ID | P314212 |
| 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 [0:5] o 1o 1–o 55 | [To the king, my lord: your servant Il-yada'. Good health to] the king, [my] lo[rd! The f]orts [and the l]and of the king [my lord] are well. |
| Obverse [5:6] o 66–o 66 | [...] in the for[ts] |
| Obverse [6:8] o 77–o 88 | [......] all [...] |
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 | [a-na LUGAL be-li₂-ia] | |
| 2 | [ARAD-ka {1}x x x x x] | |
| 3 | [lu DI-mu a-na] ⸢LUGAL⸣ be-[li₂-ia] | |
| 4 | [DI-mu a-na] {⸢uru⸣}bi-ra-[a-ti] | |
| 5 | [a-na ma]-⸢a⸣-ti\t ša\ydm LUGAL [EN-ia] | |
| 6 | [x x x x]+⸢x⸣ ina {uru}bi-⸢ra⸣-[a-ti] | |
| 7 | [x x x x x] gab-bu a-[x x] | |
| 8 | [x x x x x x] ⸢u₂\m⸣ [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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