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CT 54, 131 (P238481)

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

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DesignationCT 54, 131
IDP238481
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'[...] not [...]
Obverse [1:2] o 2'2'–o 2'2'[...] when I [...]
Obverse [2:3] o 3'3'–o 3'3'[...] ... and of ... [...]
Obverse [3:4] o 4'4'–o 4'4'[...] the Dam[uneans ...]
Obverse [4:5] o 5'5'–o 5'5'[...] rose against me [...]
Obverse [5:6] o 6'6'–o 6'6'[...] they received [...]
Obverse [6:9] o 7'7'–o 9'9'[...] who through an arr[ow ...]

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'[x x] ul [x x x x x]
2'[x x] ⸢x x⸣ ki-i ak-[x x x x]
3'[x x]-⸢am-ma⸣ ša₂ lu [x x x x]
4'[x x]-⸢ti⸣ {lu₂}da-⸢mu⸣-[na-a.a x x]
5'[x x] it-bu-ni ša₂ [x x x x x]
6'[x x]-⸢ga⸣ in-dah-[ru x x x x x]
7'[x x] ⸢ša₂⸣ ina šil-⸢ta⸣-[hi x x x x]
8'[x x x]-u₂ bu [x x x x x]
9'[x x x x] ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x]

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