CT 53, 865 (P314274)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 865 |
|---|---|
| ID | P314274 |
| 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 [1:2] o 2'2'–o 2'2' | [... which] I s[ent t]o him |
| Obverse [2:3] o 3'3'–o 3'3' | [......]... I (am) [...] |
| Obverse [3:4] o 4'4'–o 4'4' | [......] I got afraid of [...] |
| Obverse [4:5] o 5'5'–o 5'5' | [......] ... the day [...] |
| Obverse [5:6] o 6'6'–o 6'6' | [......] a prefect of the [...] |
| Obverse [6:7] o 7'7'–o 7'7' | [...... f]or 10 minas of sil[ver ...] |
| Obverse [7:8] o 8'8'–o 8'8' | [......] Now then [...] |
| Obverse [8:9] o 9'9'–o 9'9' | [... N]N, the ... who [...] |
| Obverse [9:10] o 10'10'–o 10'10' | [NN, the ... o]f Calah, of the banque[t ...] |
| Obverse [10:11] o 11'11'–o 11'11' | [...... are] in my presence, arrest[ed]. |
| Obverse [11:12] o 12'12'–o 12'12' | I [am sending them] to the king, my [lo]rd [......]. |
| Obverse [12:13] o 13'13'–o 13'13' | [......] the messenger of the gove[rnor] |
| Obverse [13:15] o 14'14'–o 15'15' | [... has not c]ome [......] |
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' | [x x x x x x x x x] ⸢x⸣ [x x x x x] | |
| 2' | [x x x x x x ina pa]-⸢ni⸣-šu aš₂-[x x x x x] | |
| 3' | [x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣-a-ni a-na-ku ⸢x⸣+[x x x] | |
| 4' | [x x x x x x]-⸢ia⸣ ap-ta-lah₃ [x x x] | |
| 5' | [x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣-an-ni UD-mu [x x x x] | |
| 6' | [x x x x x x] {lu₂vy}GAR-nu ša\dm {lu₂vy}⸢x⸣+[x x x] | |
| 7' | [x x x x x ina] ŠA₃-bi 10 MA.NA ⸢KUG⸣.[UD x x x] | |
| 8' | [x x x x x x]-⸢ši⸣ an-nu-rig ⸢x⸣+[x x x] | |
| 9' | [x x x x x x]+⸢x-šu {lu₂vy}x ša\m ina⸣ [x x x] | |
| 10' | [x x x x] ⸢ša⸣ {uru}kal-hi ša\ddm qa-ri-⸢te⸣ [x x] | |
| 11' | [x x x x x] ⸢a⸣-na pa-ni-ia ṣa-bu-[tu] | |
| 12' | [x x x x x] ⸢a⸣-na ⸢LUGAL⸣ [be]-li₂-ia a-[šap-pa-ra] | |
| 13' | [x x x x {lu₂vy]}⸢A⸣—KIN {lu₂vy]}⸢A⸣—KIN ša\dm {⸢lu₂vy⸣}EN.[NAM] | |
| 14' | [x x x x] ⸢il⸣-li-ka [x x x x x] | |
| 15' | [x x x 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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