CT 53, 939 (P314348)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 939 |
|---|---|
| ID | P314348 |
| 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 [0:2] o 1o 1–o 22 | (1) (Beginning destroyed) |
| Obverse [2:9] o 33– | They keep watch [... in the] inner [...]; the rest of them [...] in the game preserve. |
| Reverse [0:3] r 1r 1–r 33 | The apprentices should imitate and assist them. |
| Reverse [3:4] r 44–r 44 | Balasî [......] |
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 | ⸢ma x⸣ [x x x x x x] | |
| 2 | i-qa-⸢al⸣-[x x x x x] | |
| 3 | ina UGU u₂-[x x x x] | |
| 4 | qa-ba-sa-a-⸢ti⸣ [x x x] | |
| 5 | i-na-ṣu-[ru] | |
| b.e. | ||
| 6 | re-hu-u₂-[ti] | |
| 7 | ina am-ba-si ⸢x⸣ [x x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1 | {lu₂}di-da-be₂-[e] | |
| 2 | lu-ša₂-an-ši-[lu] | |
| 3 | is-se-šu₂-nu ⸢li⸣-[zi-zu] | |
| 4 | {1}ba-[la]-⸢si-i⸣ [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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