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CT 54, 274 (P239290)

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

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DesignationCT 54, 274
IDP239290
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 [1:2] o 2'2'–o 2'2'[...] placed ...[...]
Obverse [2:3] o 3'3'–o 3'3'[...] Zabay[a ...]
Obverse [3:5] o 4'4'–o 5'5'[...] his 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)

LineATFMachine English (draft)
o
1'[x x x x x] ⸢na⸣ [x x x x]
2'[x x]-⸢tu⸣-man-ni iš-⸢kun⸣ [x x]
3'[x x]+⸢x⸣-ru {1}za-ba-a.[a x x x]
4'[x x {lu₂]}A—KIN-šu₂ {lu₂]}A—KIN-šu₂ [x x x x]
5'[x x x x]+⸢x di⸣-[x x x x]

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