CT 53, 952 (P314361)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 53, 952 |
|---|---|
| ID | P314361 |
| 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 [0:5] o 1o 1–o 55 | [To the king, my lord: your] se[rvant PN]. Good hea[lth to the king, my lord! May] Nabû [and Marduk bless the king, my] lo[rd]. |
| Obverse [5:9] o 66–o 99 | Conce[rning the ... about which the king, my lord], wr[ote to me], saying, "May [they] wr[ite] ... [for me] — |
| Obverse [9:10] o 1010–o 1010 | Asakku [...] |
| Obverse [10:11] o 1111–o 1111 | power + sceptre [...] |
| Obverse [11:12] o 1212–o 1212 | Asakku [...] |
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 | {d}⸢PA⸣ {[d}AMAR.UTU a-na LUGAL] | |
| 5 | ⸢EN⸣-[ia lik-ru-bu] | |
| 6 | ina ⸢UGU⸣ [x x ša LUGAL be-li₂] | |
| 7 | iš-[pur-an-ni] | |
| 8 | ma-a [x x x x]-⸢ab⸣-bu | |
| 9 | liš-⸢ṭur⸣-[u-ni x x]+⸢x⸣ | |
| 10 | A₂.⸢SIG₃⸣ [x x x x] | |
| 11 | A₂ {giš}⸢PA⸣ [x x x] | |
| 12 | a-sak-ku [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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