CT 53, 878 (P314287)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 878 |
|---|---|
| ID | P314287 |
| 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 [1:2] o 2'2'–o 2'2' | I said to him [as foll]ows: |
| Obverse [2:3] o 3'3'–o 3'3' | "[......] Now consider within yourself |
| Obverse [3:4] o 4'4'–o 4'4' | [......] of Assyria |
| Obverse [4:5] o 5'5'–o 5'5' | [......] the governors who [went] with the king |
| Obverse [5:6] o 6'6'–o 6'6' | [......] of Marqasa |
| Obverse [7:8] o 8'8'–o 8'8' | [......] carried away [... of] Assyria |
| Obverse [8:9] o 9'9'–o 9'9' | [......] is waiting [for th]em |
| Obverse [9:11] o 10'10'–o 11'11' | [......] wherever the king [sets] his eye |
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]-u-ni | |
| 2' | [ki-i an-ni]-⸢i⸣ aq\t-ṭi\d-ba-šu₂ | |
| 3' | [mu-ku x x x] u₂\pd-ma-a ina ŠA₃-bi-ka [o] | |
| 4' | [x x x x x]-tu₂ ša\dm KUR—aš-šur{ki} KUR—aš-šur{ki} | |
| 5' | [x x x x x] {lu₂v}NAM-MEŠ\m ša\dm TA@v\m ⸢LUGAL⸣ | |
| 6' | [x x x x] ⸢ša⸣ {uru}mar-qa\t-si | |
| 7' | [x x x x x]+⸢x⸣-ta-an-ni | |
| 8' | [x x x x x x] KUR—aš-šur KUR—aš-šur it-tab-lu | |
| 9' | [x x ina pa-ni-šu₂]-nu i-da-gal | |
| 10' | [x x x x x x]-aš₂-u-ni LUGAL E₂ IGI-šu₂ [o] | |
| 11' | [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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