CT 53, 889 (P314298)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 889 |
|---|---|
| ID | P314298 |
| 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 [1:2] o 2'2'–o 2'2' | [...] messenger [......] |
| Obverse [2:3] o 3'3'–o 3'3' | [...] to the king, my lord [......] |
| Obverse [3:4] o 4'4'–o 4'4' | Let [......] to a eunuch. |
| Obverse [4:10] o 5'5'–o 10'10' | [Concerning the ...] of the towns Izuzu, [...], [B]ienši, I[...], [...] (and) Urumeq[a about which the king, my lord, wr]ote to me: "[W]rite down and dispatch to me the fie[lds ......]" — [now then] I have written down [the fields and am herewith sending (the relevant information)] to [the king, my lord]. |
| Obverse [10:13] o 11'11'–o 13'13' | [Concerning what] the king, my lord, wr[ote to me: "... f]rom the [......]" — |
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] ⸢en⸣ [x x x x x x] | |
| 2' | [x x {lu₂]}A—KIN {lu₂]}A—KIN [x x x x x] | |
| 3' | [x x x] a-na LUGAL EN-a ⸢x⸣+[x x x x] | |
| 4' | [x x x] ⸢ša\y⸣ a-na {lu₂}SAG ⸢lu⸣-[x x x] | |
| 5' | [ina UGU x x] ša\y {uru}i-zu-zi [x x x x] | |
| 6' | [ša {uru]}⸢bi⸣-en-ši ša\dm {uru}i-[x x x x] | |
| 7' | [x x x] ša {uru}u₂-ru-me-⸢qa⸣ [ša LUGAL] | |
| 8' | [be-li₂] ⸢iš⸣-pur-an-ni ma-a A.⸢ŠA₃⸣-[MEŠ x x] | |
| 9' | [x x] ⸢šu⸣-ṭur še-bi-la [an-nu-rig] | |
| 10' | [A.ŠA₃]-⸢MEŠ⸣ a-sa-ṭar ina UGU [LUGAL EN-a u₂-se-bi-la] | |
| 11' | [x x ša] LUGAL be-li₂ iš-[pur-an-ni] | |
| 12' | [x x] ⸢TA@v\m⸣ IGI {lu₂}[x x x x x x] | |
| 13' | [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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