CT 53, 882 (P314291)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 882 |
|---|---|
| ID | P314291 |
| 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/saa05 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:2] o 1o 1–o 22 | To the ki[ng, my lord]: your servant [NN]. |
| Obverse [2:4] o 33–o 44 | As to [NN] about whom the king, [my] lord, [wrote to me]: |
| Obverse [4:11] o 55–o 1111 | "Ask [and investigate] who [...] the [...] women who [...] t[o ...]! Why [......]?" |
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 ⸢LUGAL⸣ [be-li₂-ia] | |
| 2 | ARAD-ka {1}[x x x x x] | |
| 3 | a-na UGU {1}⸢x⸣+[x x x x] | |
| 4 | ša\dm LUGAL be-⸢li₂⸣ [iš-pur-an-ni] | |
| 5 | ma-a ša₂-a-la [u₂-ṣi-ṣi] | |
| 6 | ma-a man-nu MI₂-⸢MEŠ⸣ [x x x] | |
| 7 | ša\dm a-na\d ŠA₃-⸢bi⸣ [x x x] | |
| 8 | ⸢a-ta⸣-a a-[x x x x] | |
| 9 | [x x x x x x x x x] | |
| 10 | ir-[x x x x x x x x] | |
| 11 | i-⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | u₂-[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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