CT 53, 935 (P314344)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 935 |
|---|---|
| ID | P314344 |
| 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 |
|---|---|
| Obverse [1:2] o 2'2'–o 2'2' | I said: "[......] |
| Obverse [2:3] o 3'3'–o 3'3' | We shall kill them [......] |
| Obverse [3:4] o 4'4'–o 4'4' | has returned, but [......] |
| Obverse [4:5] o 5'5'–o 5'5' | to the king, my lord, [...] |
| Obverse [5:6] o 6'6'–o 6'6' | [Are they] men of the kin[g, my lord]? |
| Obverse [6:8] o 7'7'–o 8'8' | In truth, I have sen[t ......] |
| Reverse [0:1] r 1'1'–r 1'1' | one [......] |
| Reverse [1:2] r 2'2'–r 2'2' | battl[e ......] |
| Reverse [2:3] r 3'3'–r 3'3' | the troops of [the ......] |
| Reverse [3:4] r 4'4'–r 4'4' | On account on this the kin[g ...] |
| Reverse [4:5] r 5'5'–r 5'5' | We are 30 [......] |
| Reverse [5:6] r 6'6'–r 6'6' | [They have made a] treaty with one another, |
| Reverse [6:8] r 7'7'–r 8'8' | saying: "As long as the king of Assyria [...] |
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 x x x] | |
| 2' | mu-⸢uk⸣ [x x x x x x x x x] | |
| 3' | ni\d-du-uk-šu₂-nu ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x] | |
| 4' | is-su-uh-ra\t u an-[x x x x x] | |
| 5' | a-na LUGAL EN-ia [x x x x] | |
| 6' | {lu₂}ERIM-MEŠ\m-e ša\dm ⸢LUGAL⸣ [EN-ia x x] | |
| 7' | ke-e-tu a-na-ku [x x x x x] | |
| 8' | as\tdp-sap-[ra x x x x x x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | 01-en [x x x x x x x x x] | |
| 2' | qa\d-ra\t-⸢bu⸣ [x x x x x x x x] | |
| 3' | {lu₂v}e-mu-qi ša\dm [x x x x x] | |
| 4' | ina UGU an-ni-e ⸢LUGAL⸣ [x x x x x] | |
| 5' | 30 a-ni\d-nu [x x x x x] | |
| 6' | a-de-e is-sa-he-iš [is-sak-nu] | |
| 7' | ma a-du LUGAL KUR—aš-šur{[ki} x x x x] | |
| 8' | [x x x x]-⸢nu mi⸣-[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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