CT 53, 922 (P314331)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 922 |
|---|---|
| ID | P314331 |
| 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/saa16 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Reverse [0:4] r 1'1'–r 4'4' | the king, [my] l[ord, ....... Perhaps] the king, my lord, wi[ll say: "Why] have you not written about the deficit of silver [...]?" |
| Reverse [4:5] r 5'5'–r 5'5' | [......] there |
| Reverse [5:6] r 6'6'–r 6'6' | [They are] work[ing] there [...]. |
| Reverse [6:9] r 7'7'–r 9'9' | After I have washed (and) purif[ied] (the silver), I will notify the kin[g, my lord], about the deficit of silver. |
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' | ⸢LUGAL be⸣-[li₂ x x is—su-ri] | |
| 2' | LUGAL EN i-[qa-bi ma-a a-ta-a] | |
| 3' | LAL-e ša ⸢KUG.UD⸣ [x x x x] | |
| 4' | la taš-pu-ra [x x x x] | |
| 5' | i-na ŠA₃-bi ⸢i⸣-[x x x x] | |
| 6' | i-na ŠA₃-bi e-⸢pu⸣-[šu x x x] | |
| 7' | ki-ma an-te-se u₂-ṣa-[ri-pi o] | |
| 8' | LAL-e ša KUG.UD a-na ⸢LUGAL⸣ [EN-ia] | |
| 9' | u₂-ša-aš₂-ma | |
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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