CT 53, 863 (P314272)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 863 |
|---|---|
| ID | P314272 |
| 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 [0:4] o 1'1'–o 4'4' | [The king] my [lo]rd should know this. [Wh]y are they [bring]ing me towards Arihu? [He] will deport us! |
| Obverse [4:6] o 5'5'–o 6'6' | [...h]e said [that the Laq]ean(s) [...... |
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' | [be]-⸢li₂⸣ lu-u ⸢u₂-da⸣ | |
| 2' | [a-ta]-a ina ir-ti\t {1}a-ri\d-hi | |
| 3' | [u₂]-⸢ba\t⸣-lu-u-ni | |
| 4' | [u₂]-šag\t-la-na\y-ši | |
| 5' | [u] ⸢šu⸣-u iq\d-ṭi₂-bi | |
| 6' | [ma-a {kur}la]-⸢qa⸣-a.a | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ | |
| 2' | [x x x x x x] be-li₂ | |
| 3' | [x x x x x x]-ni | |
| 4' | [x x x x x x] | |
| 5' | [x x x x {lu₂v]}02-u₂\m | |
| 6' | [x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ | |
| 7' | [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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