CT 53, 902 (P314311)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 902 |
|---|---|
| ID | P314311 |
| 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 |
|---|---|
| Reverse [0:8] r 1'r 1'–r 8'8' | [about which the king, my lord, wr]ote to me: "Let them excavate it and remove it downwa[rds]" — [on the x]th day it rained there for the first time, and just now hai[l] has fallen [fr]om the mid[st of the sky]. |
| Reverse [8:10] r 9'9'–r 10'10' | [I have written t]o the king, [my lord ...] |
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) |
|---|---|---|
| r | ||
| 1' | [iš]-⸢pur⸣-an-ni\d | |
| 2' | [ma-a] li-ih-ṭu-ṭu | |
| 3' | [a-na] šap-liš\d liš\d-šu₂-u-ni | |
| 4' | [UD x]-⸢KAM⸣ ih-tu₂-ru-up | |
| 5' | [ina] ŠA₃-bi i-zu-nun | |
| 6' | [an]-⸢nu⸣-rig {na₄}⸢x⸣-[MEŠ] | |
| 7' | [x] ⸢TA@v\m⸣ qa\d-ba\t-[si AN-e] | |
| 8' | [it]-tu-qu-[ut] | |
| 9' | [a]-⸢na⸣ LUGAL [EN-ia] | |
| 10' | [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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