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CT 54, 547 (P237430)

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

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DesignationCT 54, 547
IDP237430
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/saa18 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)

LineEnglish
Obverse [0:8] o 1o 1–o 88[To the king, our lord]: yo[ur servants, NN] (and) N[N, .... May] Enlil and [Mulliltu, Ninurta and Nusku bless] the king, [our] lo[rd! May the gods ......] happines[s, good health, ...], an enduring reig[n, ...]; and [may they] ... [...] an endu[ring ...... the king], our lord.
Obverse [8:11] o 99–o 1111The day that [......]

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)
o
1[a-na LUGAL be-li₂-i-ni o]
2[ARAD-MEŠ]-⸢ka⸣ {1}x x x x x x x x]
3{1}⸢ni-x x x⸣ [x x x x x x x x x]
4{d}⸢EN.LIL₂ u₃⸣ {[d}NIN.LIL₂ {d}MAŠ u {d}PA.TUG₂]
5a-⸢na LUGAL⸣ be-[li₂-i-ni lik-ru-bu x x x x]
6⸢ṭu⸣-ub ⸢ŠA₃-bi⸣ [ṭu-ub UZU x x x x x x]
7⸢la⸣-bar BALA-[e x x x x x x x x x]
8⸢u₃⸣ la-⸢ba⸣-[ri x x x x x x x LUGAL]
9be-⸢li₂⸣-i-ni ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x x x x x]
10⸢UD⸣-mu ⸢ša₂ x⸣+[x x x x x x x x x x x]
11⸢x x x⸣ [x x x x x x x x x x x]
r
1'⸢ni-x⸣+[x x x x x x x x x x x x]
2'⸢x x x x⸣+[x x x x x x x x x x]
3'⸢u₃ x x⸣+[x x x x x x x x x x]
4'⸢x x x x⸣+[x x x x x x x x x x]
5'{lu₂}⸢x x x⸣+[x x x x x x x x x x]
6'⸢x x x x⸣+[x x x x x x x x x x]
7'⸢x⸣ [x x x x x x x x x x x x]
e.
1[x x x x x x x] SUM ni ⸢u₂⸣-tir [o]

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