CT 53, 809 (P314218)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 809 |
|---|---|
| ID | P314218 |
| 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' | [...... t]his [...] |
| Obverse [2:3] o 3'3'–o 3'3' | [......] I serve |
| Obverse [3:4] o 4'4'–o 4'4' | [......] sheikh |
| Obverse [4:5] o 5'5'–o 5'5' | [...... the k]ing |
| Reverse [0:1] r 1r 1–r 1r 1 | [...... i]n Chaldea |
| Reverse [2:3] r 33–r 33 | [...... helps to] escape |
| Reverse [3:4] r 44–r 44 | [......] I sent (word) |
| Reverse [4:5] r 55–r 55 | [...... d]eserters |
| Reverse [5:6] r 66–r 66 | [......] they [co]uld [not] |
| Reverse [6:8] r 77–r 88 | [...... La]nsî |
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 an]-ni-tu₂ [x x] | |
| 2' | [x x x x x x] | |
| 3' | [x x x x x x] ⸢bar⸣ a-la-su-mu | |
| 4' | [x x x x x {lu₂v]}na-sik\d-ki | |
| 5' | [x x x x x x] ⸢LUGAL\t⸣ | |
| 6' | [x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ | |
| r | ||
| 1 | [x x x x x x x ina] ŠA₃ {kur}kal-di | |
| 2 | [x x x x x x] ⸢ni⸣ | |
| 3 | [x x x x x u₂-ša₂]-ah-la-qa | |
| 4 | [x x x x x x x] a-sa-par | |
| 5 | [x x x x x x] ⸢ma⸣-aq-tu₂-ti\t | |
| 6 | [x x x la u₂\m-sa]-an-ṣi-u₂\m | |
| 7 | [x x x x {1}la]-⸢an⸣-si-⸢i⸣ | |
| 8 | [x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ bat [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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