CT 53, 827 (P314236)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 827 |
|---|---|
| ID | P314236 |
| 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 [0:3] o 1o 1–o 33 | [To the king, my lord: your servant NN. Good health] t[o the king, my lord]! |
| Obverse [3:4] o 44–o 44 | [The forts of the king, my lord], are [well]. |
| Obverse [6:7] o 1111–o 1111 | the king [......] |
| Obverse [7:8] o 1212–o 1212 | not [......] |
| Obverse [8:9] o 1313–o 1313 | the It[u'eans ......] |
| Obverse [9:10] o 1414–o 1414 | with me [......] |
| Obverse [10:11] o 1515–o 1515 | sent, [saying: "...] |
| Obverse [11:12] o 1616–o 1616 | with you [......] |
| Obverse [12:13] o 1717–o 1717 | [...] aft[er ......] |
| Obverse [13:18] o 1818– | [...] I [......] |
| Edge [1:2] e. 22–e. 22 | [......] I sent to [......] |
| Edge [2:3] e. 33–e. 33 | Who will give [...]?" He said: "[......] |
| Edge [3:4] e. 44–e. 44 | [...] they [......] |
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] | |
| 2 | [ARAD-ka {1}x x x x] | |
| 3 | [lu DI-mu] a-[na LUGAL EN-ia] | |
| 4 | [DI-mu] a-⸢na⸣ [x x x] | |
| 9 | ⸢x⸣ [x x x x x x x] | |
| 10 | {⸢anše⸣}[x x x x x x x] | |
| 11 | ⸢LUGAL⸣ [x x x x x x x] | |
| 12 | la-a [x x x x x x x] | |
| 13 | {lu₂vy}i-⸢tu⸣-[ʾu-u x x x] | |
| 14 | i-si-ia [x x x x x] | |
| 15 | i-sa-par [x x x x x] | |
| 16 | [i]-si-⸢ka⸣ [x x x x x] | |
| 17 | [x] ⸢i⸣-da\d-[x x x x x] | |
| 18 | [x] ana-ku ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x] | |
| 19 | [x x] la [x x x x x] | |
| b.e. | ||
| 20 | [x] i-[x x x x x x] | |
| r | ||
| 8 | ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x x x] | |
| 9 | ši-[x x x x x x x x] | |
| 10 | ⸢ma⸣ [x x x x x x x x] | |
| e. | ||
| 1 | [x x x x x]-⸢ra⸣-an-ni [x x x x x] | |
| 2 | [x x x x x] ⸢a⸣-sa-par ina ⸢UGU⸣ [x x x x] | |
| 3 | [x] man-nu i-da\d-na ma-a ina [x x x x] | |
| 4 | [x x x x x] šu-nu [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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