CT 53, 880 (P314289)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 880 |
|---|---|
| ID | P314289 |
| 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 [0:1] o 1'1'–o 1'1' | to [......] |
| Obverse [1:2] o 2'2'–o 2'2' | of the eunuch [......] |
| Obverse [2:3] o 3'3'–o 3'3' | including those of the son of [NN ...] |
| Obverse [3:4] o 4'4'–o 4'4' | there I op[ened ......] |
| Obverse [4:5] o 5'5'–o 5'5' | letters [......] |
| Obverse [5:6] o 6'6'–o 6'6' | to me [......] |
| Obverse [6:7] o 7'7'–o 7'7' | which they brin[g ......] |
| Obverse [7:8] o 8'8'–o 8'8' | with them [......] |
| Obverse [8:9] o 9'9'–o 9'9' | I se[n]t [......] |
| Reverse [0:1] r 1'1'–r 1'1' | the Baby[lon]ians [...] |
| Reverse [1:2] r 2'2'–r 2'2' | letters [......] |
| Reverse [2:3] r 3'3'–r 3'3' | they bring [......] |
| Reverse [3:5] r 4'4'–r 5'5' | Perhaps [the king, my lord, will say: "...] do you [...]?" |
| Reverse [5:6] r 6'6'–r 6'6' | from ther[e ......] |
| Reverse [6:8] r 7'7'–r 8'8' | there i[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' | a-na ab [x x x x x x x] | |
| 2' | ša\tym {lu₂v}SAG\t [x x x x x x] | |
| 3' | a-di ša\tym DUMU [x x x x x x] | |
| 4' | ina ŠA₃\p-bi ab-⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x] | |
| 5' | e-gir₂-a-te [x x x x x x] | |
| 6' | ina UGU-hi-⸢ia₂⸣ [x x x x x x x] | |
| 7' | ša\tym na-ṣu-[ni x x x x x x] | |
| 8' | i-si\d-šu₂-nu ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x x] | |
| 9' | a-⸢sap-ra x⸣+[x x x x x x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | ⸢DUMU⸣-MEŠ\m—TIN.⸢TIR⸣{[ki} ⸢DUMU⸣-MEŠ\m—TIN.⸢TIR⸣{[ki} x x x x] | |
| 2' | e-gir₂-a-⸢te⸣ [x x x x x x] | |
| 3' | ⸢na⸣-ṣu\p-ni [x x x x x x] | |
| 4' | ⸢i⸣—su\t-ri [x x x x x x] | |
| 5' | tu\tp-sa-ʾa-[x x x x x x] | |
| 6' | TA\m ma-⸢ka⸣ [x x x x x x] | |
| 7' | i-ba\t-aš₂-[ši x x x x x x] | |
| 8' | ⸢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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