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CT 54, 194 (P238669)

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

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Designation	CT 54, 194
ID	P238669
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 [1:2] o 2'2'–o 2'2'	[... the Elam]ite(s) [...]
Obverse [2:3] o 3'3'–o 3'3'	[...], saying: "[...]
Obverse [3:4] o 4'4'–o 4'4'	[...] to Marduk-[...]
Obverse [4:5] o 5'5'–o 5'5'	[...] to his presence [...]
Obverse [5:7] o 6'6'–o 7'7'	[... Na]bû-šuma-išku[n ...]

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'	[x x x]+⸢x x x⸣+[x x x x]
2'	[x {lu₂}NIM.MA]{ki}a.a [x x x x]
3'	[x x x]-ṭu um-ma [x x x x]
4'	[x x x] a-na {1}{d}AMAR.UTU—[x x x x]
5'	[x x x] a-na pa-ni-šu₂ [x x x x]
6'	[x x {1}d].⸢AG⸣—MU—GAR-⸢un⸣ [x x x x]
7'	[x x x x]+⸢x 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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