CT 53, 934 (P314343)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 934 |
|---|---|
| ID | P314343 |
| 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 [1:2] o 2'2'–o 2'2' | "Organize [......]!" |
| Obverse [2:3] o 3'3'–o 3'3' | [...] ... of the king, my lord, |
| Obverse [3:5] o 4'4'–o 5'5' | all its [s]heep, all i[ts] fields and all its water [...]. |
| Obverse [5:6] o 6'6'–o 6'6' | Are there (any) cities [that ...]? |
| Reverse [0:1] r 1'1'–r 1'1' | [...] the king [...] |
| Reverse [1:2] r 2'2'–r 2'2' | they have written them down; |
| Reverse [2:3] r 3'3'–r 3'3' | [...] of the king, my lord [...]. |
| Reverse [3:4] r 4'4'–r 4'4' | And the water of ... is [...] |
| Reverse [4:6] r 5'5'–r 6'6' | Now [then I have ...ed] their [...]s |
| Reverse [6:9] r 7'7'–r 9'9' | [... the ...]s of the king |
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' | [x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣-su | |
| 2' | [x x x x x x] ku-ṣur | |
| 3' | [x x x] ⸢x x⸣ ša\dm LUGAL be-li₂-ia | |
| 4' | ⸢UDU⸣-MEŠ-ši-ni A.ŠA₃-MEŠ-⸢ši⸣-[ni] | |
| 5' | u₃ A-MEŠ-ši-ni gab-⸢bi⸣ [x x] | |
| 6' | ⸢URU⸣-MEŠ i-ba-ši-⸢i⸣ [x x x] | |
| 7' | [x x]-iu-u nu-⸢ši⸣-[x x x x] | |
| 8' | [x x x x]+⸢x⸣ [x x x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [x x x x] ⸢LUGAL⸣ [x x x] | |
| 2' | ⸢i-sa⸣-ṭar-u₂\m-šu₂-nu ši-[x x] | |
| 3' | ša\dm LUGAL\d be-li₂-ia ra-[x x] | |
| 4' | u₃ A-MEŠ ša\dm har-bu-bi [x] | |
| 5' | [x x x] šu-nu u₂\m-ma-a | |
| 6' | [an-nu-rig x x]+⸢x⸣-MEŠ-šu₂-nu | |
| 7' | [x x x x x x]-MEŠ ša\dm LUGAL | |
| 8' | [x x x x x x x]-ṣu | |
| 9' | [x x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ | |
| e. | ||
| 1 | [x x x x]-⸢ra⸣-a-⸢te⸣ [x x x] | |
| 2 | [x x x x] ina ⸢zi⸣-[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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