CT 53, 857 (P314266)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 857 |
|---|---|
| ID | P314266 |
| 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 [0:3] o 1o 1–o 33 | [To the king, my lord: your servant NN. Good health t]o the king, [my lord]! |
| Obverse [3:8] o 44–o 88 | [Concerning what the king], my [lo]rd, wrote to [me: "......] your [...], the 'souls' [...]! Do not ap[proach] anybody [...]!" |
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}x x x x x] | |
| 3 | [lu šul-mu a]-na ⸢LUGAL⸣ [EN-ia] | |
| 4 | [ša LUGAL be]-li₂ iš-pur-an-[ni] | |
| 5 | [ma-a x x x]-ku-nu ZI-MEŠ\m {lu₂v}[x x] | |
| 6 | [x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ ina UGU me-me-⸢ni\d⸣ | |
| 7 | [x x x x x x x] ⸢la⸣ ta-qa\d-[rib] | |
| 8 | [x x x x x x x 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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