CT 53, 814 (P314223)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 814 |
|---|---|
| ID | P314223 |
| 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/saa01 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:4] o 1o 1–o 44 | To the king, my lord: [Your servant Ṭab-šar-Aššur]. Good health to [the king, my lord!] [As to the ... about which] the king, my lord, [wrote to me (Break) |
| Reverse [1:2] r 2'2'–r 2'2' | [b]oats [......] |
| Reverse [2:3] r 3'3'–r 3'3' | [the gover]nor of Calah [......] |
| Reverse [3:4] r 4'4'–r 4'4' | [the]re are no [......] |
| Reverse [4:6] r 5'5'–r 6'6' | "Launch [....]!" I've la[unched ...] |
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 EN-⸢ia⸣ [ARAD-ka {1}x x x x] | |
| 2 | [lu] DI-mu a-⸢na⸣ [LUGAL EN-ia ina UGU x x] | |
| 3 | [ša] LUGAL be-li₂ [iš-pur-an-ni x x x] | |
| 4 | [x x x]+⸢x x⸣+[x x x x x x x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [x x x x] ni [x x x x x x] | |
| 2' | [x {giš]}MA₂-MEŠ\m u₂\m-⸢ka⸣-[x x x x] | |
| 3' | {[lu₂v}EN].⸢NAM⸣ ša\d {uru}kal-ha [x x x] | |
| 4' | [x x x x]-MEŠ\m-ni la-aš₂-[šu₂ x x x] | |
| 5' | [x x x x] kur-ru ak\d-[ta-ra-ar₂] | |
| 6' | [x x x x]+⸢x⸣ e ⸢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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