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CT 54, 449 (P236889)

Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE

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DesignationCT 54, 449
IDP236889
Museum no.BM —
CollectionBritish Museum, London, UK
LanguageAkkadian
PeriodNeo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
GenreLetter
Find spotNineveh (mod. Kuyunjik)
Coordinates36.3582, 43.1621

English translation

By ORACC project saao/saa17 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)

LineEnglish
Obverse [0:1] o 1'1'–o 1'1'[...] ... Na[bû-...]
Obverse [1:2] o 2'2'–o 2'2'[...] which for Hudi-[...]
Obverse [2:3] o 3'3'–o 3'3'[...] Nabû-ahhe-erib[a...]
Obverse [3:4] o 4'4'–o 4'4'[...] Nabû-eṭir son of Nab[û-...]
Obverse [4:5] o 5'5'–o 5'5'[... Mar]duk-iddina and the [...]
Obverse [5:6] o 6'6'–o 6'6'[... Da]bibi and [...]
Obverse [6:8] o 7'7'–o 8'8'[... Meroda]ch-Baladan [...]

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)

LineATFMachine English (draft)
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1'[x x]+⸢x⸣ {1}{d}⸢AG—x⸣+[x x x x x]
2'[x]-ṣab ša₂ a-na {1}hu-di-[x x x x]
3'[x x] {1}{d}AG—ŠEŠ-MEŠ-⸢eri-ba⸣ [x x x x]
4'[x x] {1}{d}AG—KAR-ir DUMU {1}{[d]}⸢AG⸣—[x x x x]
5'[x x x {1}{d}AMAR].⸢UTU—SUM⸣-na u₃ {lu₂}[x x x]
6'[x x x {1}da]-bi-bi u₃ {1}⸢x⸣+[x x x x]
7'[x x x {1}{d}AMAR].⸢UTU⸣—DUMU.UŠ—MU {1}[x x x x]
8'[x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ [x] ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x]

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