CT 53, 848 (P314257)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 848 |
|---|---|
| ID | P314257 |
| 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 [0:3] o 1o 1–o 33 | To the king, [my lord]: your servant Išm[anni-Aššur]. Good health to [the king, my lord]! |
| Obverse [3:8] o 44–o 88 | As to what the king, my lord, [wrote to me]: "The servants [...] of the son of Za[baba-... have ...ed] eight minas [of ...] entrusted to [......]," — |
| Obverse [8:9] o 99–o 99 | two men [...... |
| Reverse [1:7] r 2'2'–r 7'7' | Let him give to [the] king's men [......] 30 persons [......] one mina and ten [shekels of ...] retur[ned ......] agree [......]. |
| Reverse [7:9] r 8'8'–r 9'9' | The king should decide between [......] and eight [minas of ...]. |
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\p-ka {1}HAL-[a-ni—aš-šur] | |
| 3 | lu-u DI-mu a-na [LUGAL EN-ia] | |
| 4 | ina UGU ša\tm LUGAL [iš-pur-a-ni] | |
| 5 | ma-a {lu₂v}ARAD\p-MEŠ\m [x x x x] | |
| 6 | ša\tym DUMU {1}{d}⸢za⸣-[ba-ba x x] | |
| 7 | ma-a 08 MA.⸢NA⸣ [x x x x x] | |
| 8 | ša\tym pi-qit-[te x x x x x] | |
| 9 | 02 {lu₂v⸣}ERIM-⸢MEŠ⸣ [x x x x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [x]+⸢x x⸣+[x x x x x x] | |
| 2' | {lu₂v}ERIM—MAN-[MEŠ {lu₂v}ERIM—MAN-[MEŠ x x x x x] | |
| 3' | li\dp-di-⸢na⸣ [x x x x x] | |
| 4' | 30 ZI-⸢MEŠ⸣ [x x x x x] | |
| 5' | 01 MA.NA 10 [GIN₂ x x x x] | |
| 6' | u₂\m-sa\p-[hi-ir x x x x] | |
| 7' | i-ma-gur₂ [x x x x x x] | |
| 8' | LUGAL ina bir-[ti x x x x] | |
| 9' | bir-ti 08 [MA.NA x x x] | |
| 10' | li\dp-ip-[ru-us o] | |
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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