CT 53, 940 (P314349)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 940 |
|---|---|
| ID | P314349 |
| 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 [0:16] o 1o 1– | To the kin[g, my lord], your servant: [PN]. Good healt[h to the king, my lord]! May Aššur, [Šamaš, Nabû and Marduk bless the king, my lord]. |
| Reverse [10:14] r 11'11'–r 14'14' | Now [...] are in place. Let the king, [my lord], send [...] to bri[ng them] into the house of [...]. |
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 | a-na ⸢LUGAL⸣ [be-li₂-ia] | |
| 2 | ARAD-ka {1}[x x x x] | |
| 3 | lu DI-⸢mu⸣ [a-na LUGAL EN-ia] | |
| 4 | aš-šur {d}[UTU {d}PA {d}AMAR.UTU] | |
| 5 | a-na [LUGAL be-li₂-ia] | |
| 6 | li-[ik-ru-bu x x x] | |
| 7 | ma-⸢a⸣ [x x x x x x] | |
| 8 | ša [x x x x x x] | |
| 9 | ša [x x x x x x] | |
| 10 | ⸢ša⸣ [x x x x x x] | |
| 11 | ⸢ša⸣ [x x x x x x] | |
| 12 | ⸢ša⸣ [x x x x x x] | |
| 13 | ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x x] | |
| 14 | ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x x] | |
| 15 | ⸢pa⸣-[x x x x x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x x] | |
| 2' | ša [x x x x x x] | |
| 3' | ina [x x x x x x] | |
| 4' | is-[x x x x x x] | |
| 5' | ša [x x x x x x] | |
| 6' | ša [x x x x x x] | |
| 7' | a-na [x x x x x x] | |
| 8' | da-[x x x x x x] | |
| 9' | la ⸢il⸣-[x x x x x] | |
| 10' | la is-[x x x x x x] | |
| 11' | u₂-ma-⸢a⸣ [x x x x x] | |
| 12' | šak-na ⸢LUGAL⸣ [be-li₂ x x] | |
| 13' | liš-pur ina ⸢E₂⸣ [x x x] | |
| 14' | lu-še-⸢ri⸣-[bu-ši-na] | |
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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