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CT 54, 338 (P239399)

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

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DesignationCT 54, 338
IDP239399
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] 2'2'–2'2'[... a]ssemble
Obverse [2:3] 3'3'–3'3'[...] and a defea[t]
Obverse [3:4] 4'4'–4'4'[... Bit]-Bunakki
Obverse [4:5] 5'5'–5'5'[...] and the towns
Obverse [5:6] 6'6'–6'6'[...] have plundered
Obverse [6:8] 7'7'–8'8'[...] the[ir ...]

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)
1'[x x x x x x x] ⸢x⸣
2'[x x x x] ⸢pu⸣-uh-ra-ni
3'[x x x x]-ma di-ik-⸢tu⸣
4'[x x {uru}E₂]—bu-nak-ku
5'[x x x x] u₃ URU-MEŠ
6'[x x x x] ih-bu-tu-⸢ni⸣
7'[x x x x]-ni-šu₂-⸢nu⸣ [x]
8'[x x x x x] ⸢x⸣ [x x x]

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