CT 53, 839 (P314248)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 839 |
|---|---|
| ID | P314248 |
| 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 |
|---|---|
| Reverse [0:3] r 1'1'–r 3'3' | [...... about whom] the king, my lord, sa[id]: "Let [......] with them and [...] the refugees!" — |
| Reverse [3:5] r 4'4'–r 5'5' | they do not agree to [......]. When the men [...... |
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) |
|---|---|---|
| r | ||
| 1' | [ša] ⸢LUGAL⸣ EN iq-[bu-u-ni] | |
| 2' | [ma]-a i-si-šu₂-nu lu [x x x] | |
| 3' | ma-a {lu₂}ma-aq-tu [x x x] | |
| 4' | la i-ma-gu-ru\p ⸢la⸣ [x x x] | |
| 5' | ki-ma {lu₂}ERIM-⸢MEŠ⸣ [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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