CT 54, 268 (P239283)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 54, 268 |
|---|---|
| ID | P239283 |
| 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 [0:6] o 1o 1–o 66 | [Your servant] Marduk-šuma-iddina. [I would gladly die] for the king, [my lord! Say t]o the king, [my] lord: [I have sent] my [messenger] |
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 | [ARAD-ka {1}{d}AMAR.UTU—MU—SUM-na | |
| 2 | [a-na di-na]-an LUGAL | |
| 3 | [be-li₂-ia₂] ⸢lul⸣-lik | |
| 4 | [um-ma-a a]-na LUGAL | |
| 5 | [be-li₂-ia]-a-ma | |
| 6 | {[lu₂}DUMU—KIN]-ia {[lu₂}DUMU—KIN]-ia | |
Sources & licences
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