CT 53, 924 (P314333)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 924 |
|---|---|
| ID | P314333 |
| 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 [0:5] o 1'1'– | [The ... of] the king [asked me]: "Who is this [NN], who is inscribing those waxed tablets of the king, my lord?" |
| Reverse [0:4] r 1r 1–r 44 | I said: "Perhaps he personally told it to me; we ...[....]" |
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' | ⸢LUGAL x⸣+[x x x x x] | |
| 2' | ma-a man-nu {1}{⸢d⸣}[x x x] | |
| 3' | ša {giš}le-ʾa-a-ni am-mu-[te] | |
| 4' | ša₂ LUGAL EN-ia i-ša₂-ṭar-u-ni | |
| r | ||
| 1 | nu-uk is—su-ri | |
| 2 | ki-i ra-mi₃-ni-šu₂ šu-u₂ | |
| 3 | iq-ṭi-bi-a nu-uk ⸢a-ni-nu⸣ | |
| 4 | il-⸢la⸣-[x x x x x] | |
Sources & licences
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- 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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