CT 53, 864 (P314273)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 864 |
|---|---|
| ID | P314273 |
| 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 | [A letter from Nabû-damm]iq to [...]ti-Bel. [Good he]alth to my lord! |
| Obverse [3:6] o 44–o 66 | [Ta]bni-ilu has come here; he has been summoned for Nabû-šezib and should speak in the presence of the crown prince. |
| Obverse [6:13] o 77– | Bring me barley and sesame! Why do you take away the barley? To whom do you distribute it? I alone am being excluded from it! ...... |
| Reverse [0:6] r 1r 1–r 66 | [......] in the presence of the crown prince [...... |
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 {1}x-x]+⸢x⸣-ti—EN | |
| 2 | [IM {1}{d}PA-SIG₅]-⸢iq⸣ | |
| 3 | [lu DI]-mu a-na\td EN-a | |
| 4 | {1}⸢tab⸣-ni—DINGIR ha-na\td-ka | |
| 5 | i-tal-ka a-⸢na\td⸣ {1}{d}PA—še-zib\p | |
| 6 | da\d-ki ina IGI DUMU—LUGAL\d DUMU—LUGAL\d liq-qi-bi | |
| 7 | {še}⸢PAD⸣-MEŠ\t {še}GIŠ.I₃ bi-la-nu | |
| 8 | a-ke {še}PAD-MEŠ\d | |
| 9 | ta-na\td-ši ma-nu ta-da\d-⸢šu-nu⸣ | |
| 10 | ana-ku u₂-da\d-ia | |
| 11 | a-ka-li\td-šu₂ | |
| 12 | NUMUN\d-šu₂ ⸢ir⸣-tu₂-mu | |
| r | ||
| 1 | [ina] ⸢IGI⸣ DUMU—⸢MAN⸣ DUMU—⸢MAN⸣ | |
| 2 | [x] ⸢x⸣ [x] ⸢x⸣ [x] | |
| 3 | [x x] ⸢x⸣ [x x] | |
| 4 | u₂-[x x] ⸢x x⸣ | |
| 5 | [x x] ⸢x x⸣ [x] | |
| 6 | [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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