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CT 54, 119 (P238468)

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

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Designation	CT 54, 119
ID	P238468
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/saa17 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)

Line	English
Obverse [0:3] o 1o 1–o 33	[To] the king, [my lord]: your [servant] A[qar-Bel-lumur. Goo]d health [to the king, my lord]!
Obverse [3:5] o 44–o 55	Concerning the n[ews of the son of] Yakin: [...]
Obverse [5:6] o 66–o 66	[...] three [...]
Obverse [6:8] o 77–o 88	[...] my lord [...]

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}a-[qar—{d}EN—lu-mur]
3	[lu]-u₂ DI-⸢mu⸣ [a-na LUGAL be-li₂-ia]
4	[aš₂]-šu₂ ṭe₃-e-[mu ša₂]
5	[DUMU—{1}ia-GIN [x x]
6	[x x]+⸢x⸣ 03 [x x]
7	[x] ⸢be⸣-li₂-[x x]
8	[x x] ⸢x⸣+[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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