CT 53, 852 (P314261)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 852 |
|---|---|
| ID | P314261 |
| 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 kin]g, [my] lo[rd: your servant] Na'di-[ilu. Good hea]lth t[o the king, my lord]! |
| Obverse [3:7] o 44–o 77 | [As to] the I[tu'eans who return]ed [fr]om the ri[ver Euphrates ......] |
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⸣ be-⸢li₂⸣-[ia] | |
| 2 | [ARAD-ka] {1}⸢I⸣—[DINGIR] | |
| 3 | [lu šul]-mu a-⸢na\t⸣ [LUGAL EN-ia] | |
| 4 | [ina UGU] {lu₂v}i-[tu-ʾa-a.a] | |
| 5 | [ša TA] ⸢UGU {id₂⸣}[pu-rat-ti] | |
| 6 | [is-hu]-⸢ru⸣-u-ni\d [x x x] | |
| 7 | [x x x]+⸢x⸣-ni ⸢ma⸣-[a 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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