CT 53, 822 (P314231)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 822 |
|---|---|
| ID | P314231 |
| 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 [1:5] o 2'2'–o 5'5' | is keeping [watch]. The day [I arr]ive on the border, [I shall wr]ite [to the king], my [lo]rd. |
| Reverse [0:2] r 1'1'–r 2'2' | [NN] th[e ...] is standing guard [with] him. |
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 x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ | |
| 2' | [EN.NUN] i-na-ṣar UD-mu ⸢ša⸣ ina ta-hu-me | |
| 3' | [a-qar]-⸢ri⸣-ba\t-ni\d | |
| 4' | [ina UGU LUGAL] ⸢EN⸣-a | |
| 5' | [a-šap-pa]-⸢ra⸣ | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [x x x x]+⸢x {lu₂v⸣}[x x] | |
| 2' | [i-si]-šu₂\d a-na EN.NUN i-⸢za-za⸣ | |
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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