CT 53, 881 (P314290)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 881 |
|---|---|
| ID | P314290 |
| 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' | [......] distribut[e(s) ...] |
| Obverse [1:2] o 2'2'–o 2'2' | [...] corn tax [...] |
| Obverse [2:3] o 3'3'–o 3'3' | [... the s]cholars whom the king, [my] lo[rd] |
| Obverse [3:4] o 4'4'–o 4'4' | [......] gives |
| Obverse [4:5] o 5'5'–o 5'5' | [...... go]es |
| Obverse [7:13] o 8'8'– | Aššur-iddina, their prefect, holds [1]00 (hectares) of land and three orchards |
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] u₂\m-za-⸢za⸣ [x x] | |
| 2' | [x x x]+⸢x {še⸣}nu-sa-hi [x x] | |
| 3' | [x x x {lu₂v]}⸢um⸣-ma-a-ni ša\dm LUGAL be-[li₂] | |
| 4' | [x x x x x x x x] SUM-an | |
| 5' | [x x x x x x x x x]-lak | |
| 6' | [x x x x x x x x x]-pi | |
| 7' | [x x x x x x x] ⸢x x⸣ | |
| 8' | {1}aš-šur—AŠ {lu₂v}GAR.KUR-šu-⸢nu⸣ | |
| 9' | 01 me A.ŠA₃-šu₂ 03 {giš}SAR-MEŠ\m-⸢šu₂⸣ | |
| b.e. | ||
| 10' | [x] ⸢ad⸣-ru\d ku ⸢dan x⸣+[x x x] | |
| 11' | [x x x] a-na [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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