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CT 54, 259 (P239219)

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

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DesignationCT 54, 259
IDP239219
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 [2:3] o 3'3'–o 3'3'[...... th]ey go
Obverse [3:4] o 4'4'–o 4'4'[...... th]em
Obverse [4:5] o 5'5'–o 5'5'[......] their [...]
Obverse [5:6] o 6'6'–o 6'6'[......] their [pro]perty
Obverse [6:7] o 7'7'–o 7'7'[......] to the king
Obverse [7:8] o 8'8'–o 8'8'[...... the Bab]ylonians
Obverse [8:9] o 9'9'–o 9'9'[...... fr]om Nineveh
Obverse [9:12] o 10'10'–[...... n]ews

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 x x x] ⸢x x⸣
2'[x x x x x]-MEŠ
3'[x x x x x] ⸢il⸣-la-ku
4'[x x x x-šu₂]-⸢nu⸣-ti
5'[x x x x x]+⸢x⸣-šu₂-nu
6'[x x x x NIG₂].ŠID-MEŠ-šu₂-nu
7'[x x x x x]+⸢x⸣-mu-u₂ a-na LUGAL
8'[x x x {lu₂}TIN].TIR{ki}MEŠ
9'[x x x x ul]-tu ni-nu₂-a{ki}
10'[x x x x] ⸢ṭe₃⸣-e-mu
11'[x x x x]-ni

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