CT 53, 866 (P314275)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 866 |
|---|---|
| ID | P314275 |
| 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 [0:7] o 1'1'–o 7'7' | [As to what the king, my lord wrote to me: "PN] will give trunks to [...]-dala, and he will also show the mountain to your men (who) should cut down the rest of the trunks" — |
| Obverse [7:22] o 8'8'– | I moved the men up (the mountain) and sent an official with them; they went to have a look and came back saying: "They showed us 900 cut trunks but they are not at all suitable for the work; and nobody showed us the mountain." |
| Reverse [8:10] r 99–r 1010 | Now then [...... |
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' | [ma-a] {⸢giš}ŠU₂.A-MEŠ a-na⸣ | |
| 2' | {1}x]—da\d-la i-da\d-na | |
| 3' | ⸢u₃⸣ ma-a KUR-u₂ | |
| 4' | [a]-⸢na⸣ {lu₂v}ERIM-MEŠ-ka | |
| 5' | ⸢u₂⸣-ka-la-ma | |
| 6' | ⸢ma⸣-a re-eh-ti {giš}ŠU₂.A-MEŠ\tm | |
| 7' | ⸢li\tm⸣-ik-ki\t-su | |
| 8' | ⸢ERIM⸣-MEŠ us-se-li\tm | |
| 9' | {⸢lu₂v⸣}EN—pi-qi-te {⸢lu₂v⸣}EN—pi-qi-te | |
| b.e. | ||
| 10' | ⸢i⸣-si-šu₂-⸢nu⸣ | |
| 11' | [a]-sa\d-ap-[ra] | |
| 12' | [i]-tal-ku e-[tam-ru] | |
| r | ||
| 1 | ⸢i⸣-sa-hu-ru\d-u-ni\d | |
| 2 | [ma]-a 09 me {giš}ŠU₂.A-MEŠ | |
| 3 | ⸢nak⸣-sa-a-te | |
| 4 | ⸢uk⸣-ta-li\tm-mu-na-ši | |
| 5 | ma-a la-šu₂ a-na dul\y-lum | |
| 6 | la il\t-la-ka | |
| 7 | u₃ ma-a KUR-u₂\m | |
| 8 | me-me-ni\d la u₂-kal-lim-na-ši | |
| 9 | [u₂]-ma-a an-nu-rig | |
| 10 | [x x x] ⸢qi na⸣ [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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