CT 53, 886 (P314295)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 886 |
|---|---|
| ID | P314295 |
| 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 [0:7] o 1'1'– | [Concerning what] my [lo]rd, wrote to me: "Be on the alert until the god has entered [the inner sanc]tum, and let your guard be strong" — |
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' | [ša be]-li₂\d iš\t-⸢pur-an-ni⸣ | |
| 2' | [ma-a] a-du be₂-et DINGIR | |
| 3' | [ina E₂]-⸢an⸣-ni\d e-rab-u-ni\d | |
| 4' | [ma-a] lu et-ka\d-ka\d | |
| 5' | [ma-a] EN.NUN\m-ka\d | |
| 6' | [lu]-u₂\m dan-nat | |
Sources & licences
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