CT 53, 919 (P314328)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 919 |
|---|---|
| ID | P314328 |
| 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'– | [ever since the gods] delivered them into the king's hands, deserters have been escaping to our side from their midst. |
| Reverse [3:5] r 44–r 55 | 600 [...] of th[em] |
| Edge [0:1] e. 1e. 1–e. 1e. 1 | [The king, my lord], may d[o as he deems best]. |
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' | ina ⸢ŠU.2-MEŠ\m LUGAL | |
| b.e. | ||
| 2' | im-nu\d-šu₂-nu\d-u-ni | |
| r | ||
| 1 | ma-aq\d-tu-ti | |
| 2 | TA@v\m ŠA₃-bi-šu₂-nu\d | |
| 3 | it-tuq\t-tu-u-ni | |
| 4 | 06 me [x x x]-šu₂-[nu] | |
| 5 | ⸢na⸣-[x x x x x] | |
| e. | ||
| 1 | le\d-pu-[uš o] | |
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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