CT 53, 842 (P314251)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 842 |
|---|---|
| ID | P314251 |
| 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 [1:2] o 2'2'–o 2'2' | [......]... the m[en] |
| Obverse [2:3] o 3'3'–o 3'3' | [......] we [...] |
| Obverse [3:4] o 4'4'–o 4'4' | [...... we] kil[l]ed him |
| Obverse [4:5] o 5'5'–o 5'5' | [......] we returned their [...] |
| Obverse [5:6] o 6'6'–o 6'6' | [......] their [...] and their equipment |
| Obverse [6:7] o 7'7'–o 7'7' | [......] they [le]ft |
| Obverse [7:9] o 8'8'–o 9'9' | [......] of Qirbit |
| Reverse [0:1] r 1'1'–r 1'1' | [......] in [...] |
| Reverse [1:2] r 2'2'–r 2'2' | [......] six caval[rymen] |
| Reverse [2:3] r 3'3'–r 3'3' | [......] thirty she-ca[mel]s |
| Reverse [3:4] r 4'4'–r 4'4' | [...... a]re setting out |
| Reverse [4:5] r 5'5'–r 5'5' | [...... no]w then [...] |
| Reverse [6:7] r 7'7'–r 7'7' | [......] six priests of theirs |
| Reverse [7:8] r 8'8'–r 8'8' | [......] there |
| Reverse [9:10] r 10'10'–r 10'10' | [......] cuts |
| Reverse [10:11] r 11'11'–r 11'11' | [......] the king, my lord |
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⸣ | |
| 2' | [x x x x x x]-har {lu₂v}⸢ERIM⸣-[MEŠ] | |
| 3' | [x x x x x x] ni-is-[x x] | |
| 4' | [x x x x x ni]-id-du-[ka]-šu₂ | |
| 5' | [x x x x x]-šu₂-nu nu-sa-ah-[hi]-ra | |
| 6' | [x x x x x]-te-šu₂-nu a-nu-su\t-nu | |
| 7' | [x x x x ur]-⸢ta⸣-am-me-u₂ | |
| 8' | [x x x x x x x]-⸢ni ša⸣ {uru}qir-bi-ti\t | |
| 9' | [x x x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [x x x x x x] ina [x x x x] | |
| 2' | [x x x x x] 06 {lu₂v}ša₂—⸢pet⸣-[hal-a-te] | |
| 3' | [x x x x x] 30 a-na-⸢qat⸣ | |
| 4' | [x x x x u₂]-nam-mu-šu | |
| 5' | [x x x x an]-nu-⸢rig x⸣ [x] | |
| 6' | [x x x x x x]+⸢x x x x x⸣ | |
| 7' | [x x x x x x]-nu 06 {lu₂v}⸢SANGA⸣-MEŠ\m-šu₂-nu | |
| 8' | [x x x x x x x] ina ŠA₃-bi | |
| 9' | [x x x x x x x]-ni-⸢ni⸣ | |
| 10' | [x x x x x x x]-na-kis | |
| 11' | [x x x x x x x] LUGAL be-li₂-ia₂ | |
Sources & licences
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