CT 53, 915 (P314324)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 915 |
|---|---|
| ID | P314324 |
| 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/saa10 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:6] o 1'1'– | [There were] clouds. We did not [see] the moon here, probably because of the cl[ouds]. The king, my lord, should send messeng[ers] to the Inner City and Arbela, find out about the m[atter], and quickly [inform] the king, my lord. |
| Reverse [2:4] r 33–r 44 | The report of Calah [......] |
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' | ⸢IM.DIRI x⸣+[x x x x] | |
| 2' | is—su-ri TA pa-an ⸢IM⸣.[DIRI] | |
| 3' | 30 an-na-ka la ne₂-[mur] | |
| 4' | LUGAL be-li {lu₂}DUMU—⸢šip⸣-[ri] {lu₂}DUMU—⸢šip⸣-[ri] | |
| 5' | a-na {uru}ŠA₃—URU {uru}arba-il₃ [o] | |
| r | ||
| 1 | liš-pur iš kul be₂-et ⸢x⸣+[x x x] | |
| 2 | i-ba-aš₂-ši e-mu-ru mi-[nu ši-ti-ni] | |
| 3 | ar₂-hiš a-na LUGAL EN-ia₂ [x x x x] | |
| 4 | ša {uru}kal-⸢ha⸣ [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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